What is ARRF?

ARRF turns your iPhone into an augmented-reality Wi-Fi survey tool. You walk a space, and what your phone measured blooms into 3D cubes anchored right where you measured it — a heatmap you see through the camera, not a flat map you decode later.

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It works on any Wi-Fi network, from any vendor. The default Any Wi-Fi survey needs no access-point login: the phone itself times its router and the internet and runs short speed bursts as you walk. If you administer RUCKUS access points, the optional, free RUCKUS pack also logs into your own APs over SSH and adds the signal they measure from this iPhone.

What does ARRF measure (and what doesn’t it)?

ARRF measures what the phone experiences at each spot:

Wi-Fi latency, jitter and packet loss, timed against your router (the Wi-Fi hop).
Internet latency and download/upload speed, measured against a test server.
Call quality (MOS) from a voice-over-Wi-Fi call test.

iOS gives third-party apps no access to this iPhone’s own Wi-Fi signal strength and no passive multi-AP scan. Signal is therefore an add-on: an optional Apple Shortcut reads the phone’s own signal, noise and channel, and the RUCKUS pack reads signal from the AP’s side — how the serving access point hears this iPhone. That is the uplink direction. Either way ARRF measures one device’s connection health and roaming behaviour as you walk, not an area coverage map of every client.

The four tabs

Tab	What it’s for
Survey	Walk-and-survey in AR — cubes drop as you move. See Running a survey.
History	Every stopped survey is auto-saved here, ready to reopen, grade, or share. See History and saved surveys.
Toolbox	Network Test for this phone’s Wi-Fi on any network, plus, with the RUCKUS pack, SSH diagnostics for the APs you administer — nine read-only tools plus a short packet capture. See Toolbox utilities.
Settings	Unlock, defaults, experience tests, integrations, display and report branding. See Settings reference.

What you can do

Walk-and-survey in AR — cubes drop as you move, building a spatial map in real time.
Colour by the metric that matters — call quality, latency, jitter, loss and speed, plus signal, SNR, uplink/downlink rate and band with the RUCKUS pack. See Cube colors, labels, and detail.
See where your APs are — pin APs by hand, or let ARRF estimate them. See AP locations and roaming.
Reconstruct the space — an optional LiDAR floor plan renders your walk as a 2D map and a 3D dollhouse.
Grade your coverage — a Results summary scores the survey and flags weak spots and roaming events.
Identify your phone — match a phone’s motion against what the AP hears to confirm which client it is (RUCKUS pack).
Export — PDF site-survey report, CSV, and JSON.

What do I need?

iPhone running iOS 17 or later, with ARKit. ARRF is iPhone-only and runs in portrait.
A LiDAR-equipped iPhone is recommended for floor-plan reconstruction and wall occlusion. Everything else works without LiDAR.
A Wi-Fi connection for an Any Wi-Fi survey. No access-point login is needed.
Optional, for the RUCKUS pack: access to your RUCKUS access points on the local network over SSH (TCP 22). Your test iPhone may need to be permitted through any management ACL or firewall.

Real surveys and the Toolbox run during a free trial (14 days or 3 surveys, whichever comes first) and after a one-time unlock. The demo is always free.

Where does my data go?

Your surveys stay on your iPhone. There is no NeuralConfig account; surveys are saved to the app’s own storage and never uploaded, and any credentials are stored solely in the iOS Keychain.

Two kinds of traffic leave the phone:

Internet tests time packets and run short speed bursts against NeuralConfig’s test server, arrf-probe.neuralconfig.com, carrying a random install ID used for fair-use limits. You can point them at your own server or turn them off.
The RUCKUS pack talks only to the access points you administer on your local network — plus your own RUCKUS One tenant, if you connect one.

ARRF’s App Store privacy label declares one data type, Device ID, for app functionality and analytics — not linked to you and not used for tracking. See Internet tests and privacy.

Explore the docs

Set up

Getting started Install ARRF, answer the first-run question, grant permissions and walk your first survey.

Surveying any Wi-Fi network The default survey: no AP login — the phone measures latency, loss, speed and call quality.

Try it with no hardware Demo mode runs a full AR survey against a simulated network — free, and no gear needed.

Free trial and unlock What the 14-day or 3-survey trial covers, what always stays free, and how to restore a purchase.

Internet tests and privacy Which servers ARRF contacts, exactly what it sends, and how to self-host or switch internet tests off.

Setting up a RUCKUS One account RUCKUS pack: connect your tenant to survey by venue and fetch AP passwords automatically.

Connecting to your RUCKUS APs RUCKUS pack: log into your access points over SSH by IP, with passwords and a target SSID.

Running a survey

Running a survey Choosing a source, setting capture options, and walking the space.

Experience metrics What each phone-measured metric means, from Wi-Fi latency to call quality.

The experience grade How phone-measured samples become a verdict for calls, video and browsing.

Cube colors and labels What the survey cubes encode, the colour modes, and the detail behind each cube.

AP locations and roaming How ARRF pins and estimates AP locations in AR, and how it marks roaming events.

LiDAR floor plan Reconstructing a 2D floor plan from a LiDAR walk of the space.

Results and the survey grade What the Results screen shows, and how the letter grade is calculated.

Rooms and sites File surveys under a site and read results room by room.

Before / after compare Compare two surveys of the same space to show what a change fixed.

History and saved surveys Where every stopped survey lands, and how to reopen, rename, share, or delete one.

Tools and exports

Exporting reports and data The deliverables ARRF produces — a multi-page PDF site survey and raw data exports.

Network Test Test this phone's Wi-Fi on any network without walking a survey, including a call test.

Identify My Phone How ARRF picks your iPhone out of the APs' client tables with a wave.

Toolbox utilities RUCKUS pack SSH diagnostics — health checks and RF status straight from the AP.

Packet capture A short 802.11 capture on one AP radio, pulled back over TFTP and analysed on the phone.

Settings reference Every section of the Settings tab, with its real default.

Limits What ARRF can and can't measure, and the limits that apply to a survey.

Troubleshooting Surveys that won't start, unreachable APs, and rejected rkscli logins.

ARRF is an independent product of NeuralConfig LLC. It is not made, endorsed or supported by RUCKUS Networks. RUCKUS is a trademark of its owner.

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