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68 SMT007 MAGAZINE I NOVEMBER 2024 Case Study of Private Cellular Network in a Large Retail Establishment A landscaping company in Texas had a 25-acre retail property with two indoor show- rooms and large outdoor display and storage of stone, gravel, and other landscaping products. e company—with the intent to improve operational efficiency—was seeking a compre- hensive network solution that would enable: • Voice communication between associates • Asset tracking and inventory management Mobile point-of-sale • e prevention via video monitoring of premises • System integration with its cloud-hosted enterprise resource planning (ERP) Figure 4 shows the RF propagation map for the retail site. e RF modeling was con- Figure 3: Comparison of private cellular LTE vs. Wi-Fi. Figure 4: RF propagation coverage map of retail property (black polygon).