Fire System Floor Plan Layout for Code-Compliant Object Placement

Solution Overview

Problem

Designing a fire system for a facility is challenging due to the need to comply with regulatory guidelines and installation specifications, which often requires skilled labor and is time-consuming and costly.

Innovation Solution

An automated system using a computing device with an object placement model to determine the placement of fire system objects based on floor plan data, regulatory guidelines, and machine learning techniques to optimize object placement and cabling, generating a fire system floor plan and bill of materials.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual design by skilled labor is used, then compliance with regulatory guidelines is ensured, but design time and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance with regulatory guidelinesVSAvoiddesign time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by allowing automated generation of fire system designs without requiring skilled manual labor. The computer implementation automatically complies with regulatory guidelines through programmed rules and algorithms, eliminating the need for human experts to perform the design work while maintaining compliance reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual design by skilled labor with an automated computer-based system. The computer implementation uses algorithms and data structures to automatically determine object placements and generate designs that comply with regulatory guidelines, substituting human expertise with computational processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If manual design by skilled labor is used, then compliance with regulatory guidelines is ensured, but design cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance with regulatory guidelinesVSAvoiddesign cost

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by allowing automated generation of fire system designs without requiring skilled manual labor. The computer implementation automatically complies with regulatory guidelines through programmed rules and algorithms, eliminating the need for human experts to perform the design work while maintaining compliance reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual design by skilled labor with an automated computer-based system. The computer implementation uses algorithms and data structures to automatically determine object placements and generate designs that comply with regulatory guidelines, substituting human expertise with computational processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If automated system is used, then design time and cost are reduced, but reliance on skilled labor decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesign efficiencyVSAvoidreliance on skilled labor

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by allowing automated generation of fire system designs without requiring skilled manual labor. The computer implementation automatically complies with regulatory guidelines through programmed rules and algorithms, eliminating the need for human experts to perform the design work while maintaining compliance reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual design by skilled labor with an automated computer-based system. The computer implementation uses algorithms and data structures to automatically determine object placements and generate designs that comply with regulatory guidelines, substituting human expertise with computational processes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12547787B2Fire system floor plan layout generation

Publication Date: 2026.02.10 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC

AI summary

Devices, systems, and methods for fire system floor plan layout generation are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a computing device comprising a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive a floor plan layout of a space, define, via an object placement model utilizing the floor plan layout, placement locations of fire system objects for the floor plan layout, and generate, using the object placement model, a fire system floor plan for a fire system for the space including the fire system objects, wherein the fire system objects are located in the defined placement locations on the fire system floor plan from the floor plan layout.