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Standards-grounded coverage, computed from datasheets.

Wi-Fi propagation, camera optics, and conference A/V each run a deterministic engine over the same building model — with the standard named on every number and the manufacturer's datasheet behind it. Not a cartoon bubble around a dot.

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The standards on the page

ITU-R P.2040 · P.526 · P.1238
Wi-Fi materials, diffraction, propagation
IEC 62676-4 (DORI)
camera pixels-on-target tiers
AVIXA DISCAS
display sizing by viewer distance
IEC 60268-16 (STI)
speech intelligibility
NFPA 72
paging audibility, life safety
NEC · IEEE 1584
electrical sizing, arc flash

Named on the deliverable — not buried in a white paper.

Wi-Fi RF

RF that reads the building

Most planning tools pick one propagation philosophy and hope. This engine computes the discrete wall-by-wall losses and the ITU-R P.1238 statistical model, then takes the more conservative answer — so sparse offices and dense warehouses both come out honest.

  • Wall materials via ITU-R P.2040 complex permittivity, with TE/TM Fresnel reflection coefficients and image-method first-order reflections.
  • Knife-edge and UTD diffraction, plus Deygout multiple-edge diffraction per ITU-R P.526 §4.5.4, with Fresnel-zone clearance — signal bends, and the model knows it.
  • Vendor-specific antenna patterns derived from each radio’s datasheet gain and beamwidth instead of an idealized circle, per-zone RF parameters, and warehouse racking attenuation aware of depth, angle, and height.
  • Multi-floor attenuation per ITU-R P.1238, and uplink/downlink asymmetry — the phone talks back weaker than the AP talks down.
  • Field calibration: feed in measured readings and the engine correlates its predictions against your actual building.
How this stacks up against Ekahau
Wi-Fi · 6 GHz predictive heatmap
A predictive Wi-Fi heatmap over a warehouse floor plan, coloured on a signal-strength scale from −60 dBm excellent to −85 dBm no signal, with twelve access points placed across the racking aisles. A readout for the selected point shows −57 dBm, 35 dB SNR, MCS index 9 of 11, an estimated rate of 598 Mbps on an 80 MHz channel, and the backup AP at −61 dBm.
Predicted coverage computed through the racking and the real wall materials, not a circle drawn around a dot. Every point on the map carries the signal, the SNR, and the rate a client would actually get.
5 GHz · channel & power plan
A channel and power optimisation panel for the 5 GHz band, scoring the design 92 out of 100 across seven access points at 100% coverage with one open issue. It reports 100% coverage and quality against −4.8 dB of conflict and no gaps, notes DFS is enabled for 16 extra channels, and states the site is 33.1 km from the nearest terminal doppler weather radar. Two ranked recommendations follow — a high-priority co-channel conflict on 5 GHz that can be cleared because 25 channels are available for only seven access points, and a low-priority note that DFS channels are active — each with its impact spelled out and a button to apply the optimised plan.
The channel plan arrives with its reasoning: how many channels are usable, why DFS is safe at this distance from the nearest weather radar, and what applying it would fix.

One point on the map

  1. 01 Wall-by-wall losses every wall, its material, its thickness
  2. 02 Statistical model ITU-R P.1238 environment exponent
  3. 03 Take the conservative one honest in offices and warehouses alike
  4. 04 Bend and reflect UTD + Deygout (P.526) diffraction, Fresnel reflections
  5. 05 Antenna pattern datasheet-derived vendor pattern, off-axis loss
  6. 06 Zone overlay per-space noise floor and exponent

One calculation chain feeds the heatmap, placement preview, auto-planner, walkthrough, and remediation.

Camera optics

What the camera sees — not what it points at

A camera cone on a floor plan is a promise. The camera engine renders the promise: pixels-on-target per zone, lens by lens, with the walls, glass, and racking in the way. It is a separate engine from the RF kernel — optics and radio are different physics, and they are treated that way.

  • DORI tiers per IEC 62676-4 — detect, observe, recognize, identify — set per zone from what that space is for, and verified against placement.
  • Four projection models — rectilinear, fisheye, 180° panoramic, 360° equirectangular — with varifocal fields interpolated from the datasheet's wide and tele endpoints.
  • Shadow casting through the obstacle model: walls, glass, and warehouse racking block what they would really block, height-aware.
  • IR night vision simulated from the datasheet's rated IR range — see the scene the sensor gets at 2 a.m., not the brochure version.
  • A first-person 3D point-of-view per camera with sensor-accurate framing, exported as a POV report your customer can verify on site.
Beyond a PPF calculator
Camera · lens view
A first-person 3D lens view from a planned dome camera looking down a warehouse racking aisle. A field-of-view panel reports 91.8° horizontal by 71.8° vertical with a 165 ft range, an orientation panel shows the camera facing north-east at 37° tilt on a 20 ft mount, and IR night vision is toggled on. The device panel alongside carries the manufacturer, model, mount type, and mounting height.
The lens view puts you behind the camera before it is ordered. Field of view, tilt, mount height, and IR range come from the manufacturer datasheet, and the racking blocks what racking really blocks.

DORI, per IEC 62676-4

Detect
25 px/m — presence of a person or vehicle
Observe
62.5 px/m — characteristic details
Recognize
125 px/m — a person you already know
Identify
250 px/m — an individual, beyond doubt

Zone goals map to tiers; the engine places and verifies to the target.

Conference A/V

Conference rooms, scored seat by seat

Display, audio, microphone, camera — four disciplines meet in one room, and every seat experiences all four. The A/V engine scores each seat and grades the room, before anyone orders a video bar.

  • Display sizing per AVIXA DISCAS with off-axis degradation — can the far seat actually read the content?
  • Speech intelligibility per IEC 60268-16 STI, from the speaker layout, room acoustics, and per-octave-band reverberation.
  • Microphone pickup from real polar patterns — omnidirectional, cardioid, supercardioid, beamforming.
  • Camera framing: whether every face is resolved well enough for the far end.
  • A composite score per seat, a grade per room, and remediation suggestions with the physics attached.
The EASE seat in the six-tool stack

One seat, four numbers

Display
AVIXA DISCAS distance and off-axis
Audio
STI per IEC 60268-16
Microphone
polar-pattern pickup at the seat
Camera
face resolution to the far end

Weighted composite per seat; a grade per room.

The wider kernel

The same model runs four more engines

DAS, paging, sound masking, and electrical run as their own engines on the same obstacle model, orchestrated with cross-domain conflict checks. These cross-domain estimates are design-stage — estimation-grade by design, there to catch conflicts early — and hard life-safety constraints gate every recommendation. Cameras stay a separate engine: different physics, same geometry.

DAS / LTE

Cellular coverage modeled on the same obstacle model — 3GPP-grounded, FCC-aware, on the same zones the Wi-Fi engine reads.

Paging & mass notification

SPL and intelligibility with NFPA 72 audibility in view — life-safety constraints gate recommendations and are never optimized away.

Sound masking

Speech-privacy coverage per the ASTM E1573 / E1130 family, computed on the same zones and openings as everything else.

Electrical

Estimation-grade circuit and load coverage referencing NEC, with IEEE 1584 arc-flash awareness — it flags what needs an engineer; it never replaces one.

Deliverables

Where the numbers land

Physics no one can hand to a customer is trivia. Every engine above feeds deliverables built from the same model.

Coverage heatmaps

Per-band Wi-Fi and per-tier camera heatmaps, in 2D overlays and on the 3D model — with walls, glass, and racking respected.

Per-camera POV reports

What each camera sees, lens by lens, with pixels-on-target — evidence your customer can verify standing on the spot.

Walkthrough reports

A recorded walk through the model with per-band coverage maps and the flagged fixes, ready to hand to a stakeholder.

Site plan sets & BOM

The same model that computes coverage prices itself — sheet sets, schedules, and a bill of materials derived from the design.

Wireless design report
A wireless design insight report. A design-strengths panel states that coverage reaches 100% against a 95% target, that 64.6% of the area is at excellent signal quality, that access-point overlap supports seamless roaming, and that no significant coverage gaps were found. Below it, per-band redundancy sections for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz each report 100% secondary coverage, 100% failover-safe area, an average second-best signal of −55 and −68 dBm respectively, and a readiness verdict of strong.
The report your customer reads, generated from the same computation as the heatmap. Redundancy is stated per band, because the question that matters is what happens when one access point dies.

Grounded intelligence

SOC never invents the numbers

Every figure on this page comes from a deterministic engine and a manufacturer datasheet. SOC researches, suggests, and explains — it cannot author a physics number. That boundary is architectural.

The trust architecture, on the platform page

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is this compared with a physical survey?

It is design-stage estimation, computed from your obstacle model and manufacturer datasheets, and the platform labels it that way. It exists to find problems before install. A field-calibration workflow lets you correlate predictions against measured readings from your own building — we do not publish accuracy claims we have not measured.

Does the Wi-Fi model handle diffraction and reflections?

Yes. Knife-edge and UTD diffraction, Deygout multiple-edge diffraction per ITU-R P.526 §4.5.4, Fresnel-zone clearance, and image-method first-order reflections with ITU-R P.2040 material permittivity — alongside the hybrid discrete/statistical path-loss selection.

Do warehouse racks really affect coverage?

Heavily — and most tools ignore them. Racking attenuates Wi-Fi with depth, angle of incidence, and height taken into account, and it blocks camera lines of sight as solid structure in the shadow-casting engine.

Is one engine computing all of this?

No — and that is deliberate. Each discipline runs its own deterministic engine — Wi-Fi RF, camera optics, conference A/V, paging, DAS, sound masking, electrical — against the same shared building model. One geometry in; each discipline's own standards-grounded math out.

Who writes these numbers — SOC?

Never. The deterministic engines own every figure; SOC researches products, suggests fixes, and explains results. That boundary is architectural, not editorial.

Put real physics under your next proposal

Bring a floor plan and a device list — we will compute the coverage in front of you. Talk to us about what your team needs.

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