@WayneC If it's mission critical or there's a good business case to deploy a potentially expensive wifi solution for a single scanning gun, and they are willing to make the investment, I'd say this is screaming for a site survey, as warehouses can be tricky. 😁 I would also imagine the wifi would be leveraged for more use cases in the future than the single scanning gun, either more scanning guns, or perhaps iPads, mobile phones, etc. Or you might also want to deploy wifi-capable cameras or environmental sensors that could also leverage the solution?
There are many ways to approach a warehouse design and a lot of "it depends" type answers to many of the questions. It sounds like all you need is coverage, not concerned with performance or density, but even still, depending on the RF environment and the layout of the shelving (and what's in or on them) you could end up with a couple of different design approaches, thus I'd suggest at minimum get a floorplan to do a predictive site survey. But be careful there too, nothing simulates a fully stocked warehouse like a fully stocked warehouse.
Sounds like you may have already done that, and came up with 33 APs? Which might be excessive, that's <500 square feet per AP, but depending on the layout and RF environment, might be appropriate. What model AP, are those 33 APs with internal omni antennas, wall mounted (hopefully not up on the high ceilings which wouldn't be good)? Many designs end up with wall-mounted APs and sector antennas aimed down every-other row for example. But lots of variations, every deployment will be different.
