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SiteOps Command vs System Surveyor
System Surveyor digitized the site survey. SiteOps Command makes it compute — the same floor plan carries camera, Wi-Fi, and A/V physics, generates the BOM, and stays the record of truth from design to as-built to renewal.
A drawing describes. A model computes.
Digital site documentation was a real step forward from paper and camera rolls. The next step is a survey that can prove things.
A documentation tool records where devices go: icons on a plan, attributes, photos. What it cannot tell you is whether the design works — whether the camera resolves a face at the door, whether the far conference seat can read the display, whether the Wi-Fi survives the wall between the office and the warehouse.
In SiteOps Command the plan is a computable model. Walls carry materials, glass and racking cast shadows, and every coverage number is computed from that geometry and real manufacturer datasheets against named standards. The drawing and the proof are the same artifact — and it keeps working after the survey, all the way to renewal.
Capability by capability
| Capability | SiteOps Command | System Surveyor |
|---|---|---|
| Place devices on real floor plans | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-floor site documentation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Computed camera coverage with occlusion (walls, glass, racking) | ✓ | — |
| Wi-Fi RF propagation from wall materials (ITU-R models) | ✓ | — |
| Conference-room A/V assessment (AVIXA DISCAS, IEC 60268-16 STI) | ✓ | — |
| 3D walkthrough with live multi-discipline measurement | ✓ | — |
| Autonomous virtual site survey | ✓ | — |
| BOM that flows into quotes, orders, invoices, and renewals | ✓ | — |
| White-label customer portal on the same record | ✓ | — |
Physics
The survey proves the design
Every discipline on the plan computes. Camera coverage is scored per zone against DORI with wall, glass, and racking occlusion; Wi-Fi propagates through your real wall materials under ITU-R models; conference rooms score display sizing and speech intelligibility against AVIXA DISCAS and IEC 60268-16.
- Coverage heatmaps and per-camera POV reports straight from the design.
- Walk the building in 3D and read live measurements at any position.
- The autonomous virtual site survey walks it for you and flags fixes.
Lifecycle
One record from first walk to renewal
Documentation tools stop at the deliverable. Here, the survey becomes the job: the BOM is generated from the design, prices into a quote, and flows to orders, invoices, and AR — then to field install with photo verification, an as-built on the same model, and a renewal that knows exactly what is on the wall.
- Design → BOM → quote → order → invoice → renewal, without re-keying.
- Field technicians work from the same plan, with photo verification against the design.
- A white-label customer portal shows inventory, orders, and renewals on the same record.
Scale
Built for the whole building, not one trade
Cameras, Wi-Fi, access control, A/V, cabling, racking, and power share one canvas and one obstacle model — so integrators and design-build teams run every discipline of the install from the same source of truth.
How integrators use itWhat changes when the survey computes
Structural facts about the platform — no invented metrics.
- One model
- Documentation that computes
- Geometry, materials, and datasheets — not a static drawing
- Standards
- ITU-R · DORI · DISCAS · STI
- Named, citable bases for every coverage number
- 2D + 3D
- The same design in both
- Draw on the plan, walk it in the building
- As-built
- The survey never goes stale
- Design → install → renewal on one record
Frequently asked questions
Is SiteOps Command a System Surveyor alternative?
Yes — for teams that want the site survey to do more than document. You still place devices on real floor plans and keep multi-floor documentation, but the plan is a computable model: it proves camera, Wi-Fi, and A/V coverage, generates the BOM, and carries the job through install, as-built, and renewal.
What does “the model computes” actually mean?
Walls carry real materials, glass and racking cast shadows, and zones carry use types. From that geometry plus manufacturer datasheets, deterministic engines compute camera pixels-on-target per zone (DORI, IEC 62676-4), Wi-Fi RF propagation (ITU-R P.2040 / P.526 / P.1238), and conference-room display and speech-intelligibility scores (AVIXA DISCAS, IEC 60268-16). SOC never invents the numbers.
We keep years of surveys in a documentation tool. Where does the model come from?
From your floor plans. Import the plan, confirm walls and materials — detection and cleanup are part of floor-plan import — and place devices from the product library. From there the same record computes coverage and stays current through install and renewal.
What happens to the survey after the design is approved?
It becomes the job. The BOM prices into a quote, orders and invoices attach to the same project, field technicians work from the same plan with photo verification against the design, and the as-built updates the model instead of forking a new document.
Turn the site survey into the source of truth
Import a floor plan, place devices, and let the model prove the coverage — then run the job on the same record through as-built and renewal.