Installation Compliance Checking From Spatial Design Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to ensure that facilities such as air-conditioners, lighting fixtures, and elevators are installed in compliance with installation specifications, making it difficult to use them safely and appropriately.

Innovation Solution

A data processing device that acquires spatial design data and installation design data to determine if equipment will be installed in compliance with specifications before actual installation, using a decision unit to simulate the installation process and verify compliance with mandatory and recommended specifications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If existing spatial proposal systems are used to check environmental criteria, then environmental compliance can be determined in advance, but installation specification compliance cannot be verified

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveenvironmental compliance verificationVSAvoidinstallation specification compliance information

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The spatial proposal system is enhanced to perform multiple functions: it not only calculates spatial distribution of environmental information and determines environmental compliance (original function), but also determines compliance with installation specifications by comparing equipment installation positions against specification data (new function). This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making the system universal enough to handle both types of compliance verification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary determination of installation specification compliance by acquiring installation specification data and equipment installation position data before actual installation occurs. The decision unit compares these data to determine compliance in advance, allowing designers to recognize and correct potential non-compliance issues before physical installation, thus preventing information loss about compliance status.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If manual installation compliance checking is performed after installation, then installation can proceed freely, but compliance verification becomes difficult and error-prone

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinstallation flexibilityVSAvoidcompliance verification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs compliance determination in advance by acquiring installation specification data and equipment installation position data before actual installation. The decision unit compares these data to determine compliance beforehand, allowing installation to proceed freely only when compliance is confirmed. This eliminates the need for difficult post-installation verification while maintaining high accuracy through automated data comparison.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The manual post-installation compliance checking process is replaced by an automated computer-based system that acquires installation data, compares it against specifications, and determines compliance automatically. This substitution of mechanical/manual verification with automated information processing dramatically improves measurement precision while maintaining installation flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive installation specification checking is implemented, then compliance accuracy improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance determination accuracyVSAvoidsystem structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The spatial proposal system leverages its existing multi-functional capability to handle both environmental compliance and installation specification compliance determination. By integrating installation specification data acquisition and comparison functions into the existing framework, the system achieves comprehensive compliance checking without proportionally increasing complexity, as it builds upon an already versatile platform.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-verification by automatically acquiring installation specification data, comparing it with equipment installation position data, and determining compliance without requiring external manual intervention. This self-service capability improves compliance determination accuracy while minimizing the complexity increase that would result from adding manual checking procedures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20260064107A1Data processing device, data processing method and computer readable medium

Publication Date: 2026.03.05 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP

AI summary

A design data acquisition unit (103, 104) acquires design data of a space where equipment is installed as spatial design data, and acquires design data for installing the equipment in the space as installation design data. The decision unit (105) uses the spatial design data and the installation design data, and decides, before the equipment is actually installed in the space, whether the equipment is installed in the space in compliance with installation specifications which are specifications related to the installation of the equipment when the equipment is actually installed in the space.