Structural design systems and methods for selective simulation of equipment coverage in a floor plan
Systems and methods for selective simulation of equipment coverage in a floor plan are disclosed. A system may include at least one processor configured to access a floor plan demarcating at least one room. Operations may include receiving, via a graphical user interface, information marking an area within the at least one room, wherein the marked area defines an area of interest or disinterest within the at least one room, and wherein the area of interest or disinterest covers an area less than an the area of the at least one room. Operations may include accessing a functional requirement associated with the area of interest or disinterest and accessing technical specifications associated with the functional requirement. Operations may include generatively analyzing the technical specifications to define a solution that at least partially conforms to the functional requirement and outputting the solution.
1. A structural design system for selective simulation of equipment coverage in a floor plan, the system comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
access a floor plan demarcating at least one room, wherein the floor plan includes a plurality of equipment symbols representing one or more placement locations for one or more pieces of equipment;
receive, via a graphical user interface, information marking an area within the at least one room, wherein the marked area defines an area of interest or disinterest within the at least one room, and wherein the area of interest or disinterest covers an area less than an area of the at least one room;
access a functional requirement associated with the area of interest or disinterest;
access technical specifications associated with the functional requirement;
generatively analyze the technical specifications to define a solution that at least partially conforms to the functional requirement; and
output the solution.
2. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the solution includes a selection of at least one equipment symbol.
3. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the solution includes defining an equipment placement location of at least one of a sensor or a wireless emitter.
4. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of disinterest defines an area outside a desired sensor coverage area.
5. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of interest defines an area of desired sensor coverage.
6. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of interest defines an area for placement of a controller.
7. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of interest defines an area for placement of furniture.
8. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of interest defines an area for placement of electrical equipment.
9. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of interest defines an area for placement of an access control device.
10. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein generatively analyzing the technical specifications to define the solution includes running a series of simulations.
11. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive, via the graphical user interface, information marking a plurality of areas of interest in the at least one room.
12. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive, via the graphical user interface, information marking overlapping respective areas of interest within the at least one room.
13. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to receive, via the graphical user interface, information marking a plurality of areas of disinterest within the at least one room.
14. The structural design system of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of respective areas of interest or disinterest have respective different functional requirements.
15. The structural design system of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of respective areas of interest or disinterest have respective different functional requirement types.
16. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to receive information defining an area of interest with a plurality of functional requirements.
17. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein accessing the floor plan demarcating the at least one room includes performing at least one of machine learning methods or semantic analysis on the floor plan to demarcate contours of the at least one room.
18. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the solution is based on a weighted cost function, and wherein a weight of the weighted cost function is based on user input.
19. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein outputting the solution includes displaying a coverage map spatially indicating regions covered by at least one of sensors, wireless emitters, WiFi Access Points, lighting emitting devices or sound emitting devices.
20. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein outputting the solution includes one or more equipment symbols representing an equipment placement location of electrical equipment.
21. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the generative analysis receives as an input an architectural feature of the at least one room.
22. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the generative analysis receives as an input an architectural feature outside the at least one room.
23. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the generative analysis receives as an input a furniture placement within the at least one room.
24. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the generative analysis includes a topological analysis to determine a preferred door face for equipment placement.
25. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of interest or disinterest includes a door, and marking the area of interest or disinterest includes selecting an area automatically identified using at least of one of semantic analysis, machine learning methods or geometric analysis.
26. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the area of interest or disinterest includes a desk, and marking the area of interest or disinterest includes selecting an area automatically identified using at least of one semantic analysis or machine learning methods.
27. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein floor plan analysis is performed on the access floor plan to identify the room contours of the at least one demarcated room.
28. The structural design system of claim 1 , wherein the system is implemented on a cloud based system.
29. A structural design method for selective simulation of equipment coverage in a floor plan, the method comprising:
accessing a floor plan demarcating at least one room, wherein the floor plan includes a plurality of equipment symbols representing one or more placement locations for one or more pieces of equipment;
receiving, via a graphical user interface, information marking an area within the at least one room, wherein the marked area defines an area of interest or disinterest within the at least one room, and wherein the area of interest or disinterest covers an area less than an the area of the at least one room;
access a functional requirement associated with the area of interest or disinterest;
access technical specifications associated with the functional requirement;
generatively analyzing the technical specifications to define a solution that at least partially conforms to the functional requirement; and
output the solution.
30. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to execute operations enabling a structural design method for selective simulation of equipment coverage in a floor plan, the operations comprising:
accessing a floor plan demarcating at least one room, wherein the floor plan includes a plurality of equipment symbols representing one or more placement locations for one or more pieces of equipment;
receiving, via a graphical user interface, information marking an area within the at least one room, wherein the marked area defines an area of interest or disinterest within the at least one room, and wherein the area of interest or disinterest covers an area less than an the area of the at least one room;
access a functional requirement associated with the area of interest or disinterest;
access technical specifications associated with the functional requirement;
generatively analyzing the technical specifications to define a solution that at least partially conforms to the functional requirement; and
output the solution.