Interactive Stacking Plan for Building Occupancy Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current solutions for commercial real estate asset management lack a unified and interactive visualization of building occupancy and space allocation, leading to inefficiencies in data sharing and discrepancies between different management levels.
Innovation Solution
An interactive stacking plan system that generates a unified visual representation of building occupancy by importing and processing building data, including tenant records and leased space information, to create graphical elements that are proportional to leased space and allow for real-time comparison with certified data, enabling user-activatable links for detailed information access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional stacking plans are created using spreadsheet applications, then basic visualization of building occupancy is achieved, but interactivity and real-time data access are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that receives building data files, processes tenant records, and generates interactive stacking plans. This server acts as a mediator between the raw data and the user interface, enabling real-time data access and interactivity while maintaining data consistency across different management levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the traditional two-dimensional static spreadsheet visualization into an interactive multi-dimensional system. The stacking plan becomes a dynamic interface that allows users to click on graphical elements to access detailed information, effectively adding a temporal and interactive dimension to the visualization.
2Loss of information
If detailed tenant records and building data are maintained for all management levels, then comprehensive information availability is achieved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the building data into hierarchical levels: building-level summaries for asset managers and owners, floor-level details for property managers, and tenant-level specifics for brokers. This segmentation allows each management level to access only the data relevant to their needs, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal data structure that serves multiple management levels simultaneously. The same building data file and tenant records are used to generate stacking plans for asset managers, property managers, and brokers, each viewing different levels of detail from the same underlying data source.
3Loss of time
If stacked plans are updated frequently to reflect real-time occupancy changes, then data currency is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having property managers update tenant records and building data files in advance of when they are needed for stacking plan generation. This allows the server to process updates during non-peak times and generate updated stacking plans before they are viewed by users, ensuring data currency without requiring continuous real-time processing.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for generating an interactive stacking plan of a building is disclosed. A building data file with one or more external tenant records in a first format is received on a server computer system. Data values of one or more of the external tenant record fields are imported into master tenant records, each of which is defined by a plurality of master tenant record attributes. Stacking plan graphical elements are generated for each of the master tenant records with a size proportional to a leased space. A user-activatable link that generates an independent display of at least one of the master tenant record attributes is included in the stacking plan graphical element. The stacking plan graphical elements are arranged in the interactive stacking plan according to the floor identifier attributes of the corresponding master tenant records. The interactive stacking plan is then transmitted to the client computer system.