Interactive Facility Resource Visualization System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional resource planning for facilities, such as hospitals, typically presents results in static and non-interactive forms like reports and charts, making it difficult for users to gain comprehensive insights into facility operations and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system using cognitive computing techniques to analyze facility data, generating an interactive resource plan visualization that includes historical, current, and projected resource availability, demand, and suggested modifications, rendered in a visual format allowing users to navigate and interact with a virtual or augmented reality representation of the facility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If resource planning results are presented in static reports and charts, then the information can be easily generated and stored, but users cannot gain comprehensive insights into facility operations and inefficiencies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms static resource planning reports into dynamic virtual representations that users can interact with. The system allows users to navigate through facility spaces, view resource allocations in context, and modify plans interactively, converting fixed information displays into flexible, exploratory visualizations that maintain information completeness while dramatically improving user engagement and insight generation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds spatial and interactive dimensions to traditional resource planning data. By representing resources, demand, and inefficiencies as visual elements within a virtual facility model, the system enables users to explore planning information from multiple perspectives and understand operational contexts that flat reports cannot convey
2Measurement precision
If detailed facility data and cognitive computing analysis are processed, then accurate resource planning insights are achieved, but the complexity of the system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual representation layer as an intermediary between complex cognitive computing analysis and user interaction. This virtual model serves as a mediator that translates sophisticated algorithmic outputs into intuitive visual formats, allowing the system to maintain high analytical precision while presenting simplified, accessible information to users without exposing system complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional resource planning methods are used, then the system is simple to implement, but users cannot dynamically assess and improve resource allocation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic resource allocation assessment by allowing users to interactively modify resource plans within the virtual facility representation. Users can adjust resource assignments, observe projected outcomes, and optimize allocations in real-time, transforming static planning into an adaptive, iterative process that enhances versatility while managing complexity through intuitive visual feedback
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems and computer program products for providing an interactive resource plan visualization associated with a facility are provided. Aspects include receiving facility data comprising historical facility data, current facility data and demand data. Aspects also include determining projected resource demand based on the facility data and the demand data and using cognitive computing techniques. Aspects also include generating a visual representation of a facility. The visual representation of the facility includes available resources and resource demand associated with a specified time and the available resources are rendered according to a first visual style. Aspects also include determining resource availability modifications based on the available resources and the projected resource demand. Aspects also include generating a visual representation of the resource availability modifications associated with the specified time within the visual representation of the facility. The resource availability modifications are rendered according to a second visual style.