Difficulty: novice

“Live floorplan settings” influence the Live Floorplan visualization on all Workplace touch points.

How to access

• Go to https://studio.cobundu.com/

• Login with your credentials

• Select Settings > Plan in the Studio 1.0 interface

Change colors of live floorplan (global or local)

Modify the colors and icons on your Live Floorplan (GO Live Floorplan view and in Workplace App) on a global level or override information on regional or site level (The global comfort values also influence the colors in the gauges in the Comfort Monitor dashboard):

Verify and modify the default (or local) colors and related values for

Occupancy settings

Per (room) category you can define

Social Distancing / disabled feature

In order to use the Disabled Feature, set the Reservable Room to "out of use".

The "disabled" feature was introduced in 2020 as a part of the Social Distance Index (related to covid-19):

• it makes (former) Reservable Rooms unavailable for reservation -> mainly used for every other desk in an open office space (keeping social distance = people not sitting at EVERY desk = most often this turns into a checker pattern in the sitting plan)

• the color of these locations turns to grey to visually indicate to the end-user (on Workplace app and Kiosk app) where they should NOT sit (so that the checkered pattern is also visually available to them)

• to oversee the respect of social distancing: if occupancy is measured in these places, the icon set in Occupancy Settings will show up -> Facility Managers or people on site responsible for maintaining Social Distancing can immediately take action if Social Distancing is not respected.

  

Comfort Settings

Imagine you have a comfort sensor, but you want the data of this one sensor to turn up on multiple locations on the Workplace Live Floorplan and Comfort Dashboard.

In below example, 4 comfort sensors were installed. We wanted to visualize the data of each of the sensors on 14-16 workplaces that were situated near the sensors.

To visualize comfort sensor data in multiple locations, you will need to work with Linked Locations:

• Attach the sensor to 1 room in Sensor Devices

• Indicate in fields (also possible in batch import) "Linked Locations" for which other locations this value should turn up in the data visualizations (Live Floorplan + Comfort Dashboard)

Following restrictions are in place:

• The main location needs to be a Room object, and the Linked Locations can be Room or Workplace objects (starting from Room: same level or child level). In other words: a channel could be installed on a room and have linked locations (rooms or workplaces) or could be installed on a workplace but without linked locations. So "workplace" and "linked locations" are mutually exclusive fields (columns in the import sheet).

  • If you want to copy your comfort values on different workplaces/have them show up on multiple workplace polygons:

    • Main location: room

    • Linked locations: workplace + workplace + workplace + workplace

• Only channels with pir and headcount dimensions are taken into account if they are installed on a workplace ("workplace" column in the grid used to calculate utilization based on pir and headcount sensors installed on workplaces). It means that comfort channels linked to workplaces populate data only for the workplaces but not for their parent room.

Logic behind visualization

Average temperature value for room X if 2 comfort sensors are linked to that room = (10 °C +20 °C) / 2 = 15 °C  and this is how it will be exposed in the timeslots.

(Basic) Scenario 1: A closed office is measured using 1 comfort sensor. The temperature needs to be visualized in live floorplan.

• Live floorplan

  • Room X is receiving the sensor value from device 1 for visualization

• Timeslots

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for room X = 22 

(Basic) Scenario 2: An open office is measured using 1 comfort sensor. The temperature needs to be visualized on workplace level in live floorplan.

• Live floorplan

  • Room X is receiving the sensor value from device 1 for visualization

  • Workplace 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all receiving the same sensor value from device 1 for visualization

• Timeslots

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for room X = 22 

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 1 = 22

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 2 = 22

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 3 = 22

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 4 = 22

Scenario 3: An open office is measured using 2 comfort sensors. The temperature needs to be visualized in live floorplan.

Possible configuration:

The functionality will be the same as described in (Basic) Scenario 2, which means there are some attention points here:

 → Average temperature value for room X = (10 °C +20 °C) / 2 = 15 °C  and this is how it should be exposed in the timeslots

 → Whereas, based on the above configuration, in Comfort Monitor it seems that average value for room X = (10 + 20 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20) /12 =19.16°C

One suggestion would be to actually set it up like in the below table, where the Linked locations that are closest to a sensor are taking over the values of that sensor:

Based on the above configuration, Comfort Monitor would show average value for room X = (10 + 20 +10 +10 +10 +10 +10 +20 +20 +20 +20 +20) /12 =15°C

Scenario 4A: An open office is measured using 2 comfort sensors, one in each corner. The temperature needs to be visualized on workplace level in live floorplan.

• Live floorplan

  • Temperature for e.g. Room X or workplace 1 will be shown according to the LATEST received value comes from device 1 OR device 2

• Timeslots

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for room X = (21 + 22)/2

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 1 = (21 + 22)/2

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 2 = (21 + 22)/2

Scenario 4B: An open office is measured using 2 comfort sensors, one in each corner. The temperature needs to be visualized on workplace level in live floorplan.

• Live floorplan

  • Temperature for e.g. Room X or workplace 1 will be shown according to the LATEST received value comes from device 1 OR device 2

  • Temperature for workplace 1 + workplace 2 will be shown according to sensor value from device 1

  • Temperature for workplace 3 will be shown according to sensor value from device 2

• Dashboard

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for room X = (21 + 22)/2

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 1 = 21

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 2 = 21

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for workplace 3 = 22

Scenario 5: A big aula has 4 comfort sensors installed in each corner. We want an average temperature for the aula in dashboards

• Timeslots

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for Aula = (21 + 22 +23 +24)/4

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for corner 1 = 21

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for corner 2 = 22

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for corner 3 = 23

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for corner 4 = 24

Scenario 6: There is a POC with limited sensors, to have a nice floorplan view for demo purpose, sensor of room X is used for visualization in adjacent room Y and room Z

• Live floorplan

  • Room Y and Room Z are visualizing the same sensor value as Room X

• Timeslots

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for room X = 22

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for room Y = 22

  • 15 min-timeslot temperature value for room Z = 22

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