3D Virtual Facility Space Discovery and Scheduling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current space management and wayfinding systems are inefficient due to the lack of comprehensive and intuitive methods for users to discover and schedule spaces that align with their preferences, leading to sub-optimal space utilization and maintenance delays.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing 3D virtual world representations of facilities, combined with occupancy sensors and user input, to visually distinguish unoccupied spaces and provide intuitive scheduling tools, allowing users to select spaces based on detailed attributes and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If manual information collection and processing is used for space management, then implementation cost is reduced, but information completeness and system automation are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs sensors, cameras, and other detection devices that automatically collect and process space information without requiring manual intervention. The space management system self-updates occupancy status, space characteristics, and maintenance needs through automated detection, eliminating the need for manual information collection while maintaining complete and current data.
Solution Approach 2:
Manual mechanical information collection methods are replaced with electronic and optical detection systems including occupancy sensors, environmental sensors, and cameras. These automated detection systems continuously monitor space conditions and transmit data to the management system, providing complete real-time information without manual effort.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive space information is collected and presented, then space discovery quality improves, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides comprehensive space information into distinct modules including occupancy status, environmental characteristics, affordance availability, and maintenance needs. Each module is independently collected and processed by specialized sensors and systems, then integrated by the space management system. This segmentation reduces individual processing complexity while maintaining overall information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The space management system acts as an intermediary that receives data from multiple detection devices, processes and integrates the information, and presents it in a unified user-friendly format. This intermediary layer manages the complexity of coordinating multiple sensors and data sources while providing simplified access to comprehensive space information.
3Measurement precision
If physical visits to spaces are required to collect information, then information accuracy improves, but time consumption and productivity decrease
Solution Approach 1:
Physical visits by personnel to collect space information are replaced with automated detection devices including occupancy sensors, environmental sensors, and cameras positioned throughout spaces. These devices continuously and accurately monitor space conditions without human intervention, providing precise real-time data while dramatically improving management efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated detection system operates continuously to monitor space conditions, ensuring information is always current and accurate without requiring periodic manual visits. This continuous automated monitoring maintains measurement precision while eliminating the time consumption and productivity losses associated with repeated physical inspections.
4Adaptability or versatility
If optimized spaces are designed but not properly scheduled, then space design quality is high, but space utilization efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The space management system continuously collects occupancy data and space usage information, then provides feedback to users about available optimized spaces that match their requirements. The system analyzes space characteristics and affordances to recommend the most suitable spaces, ensuring optimized spaces are discovered and utilized appropriately based on real-time conditions and user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The space management system serves multiple functions including space discovery, scheduling, occupancy monitoring, and maintenance management. By integrating these functions, the system ensures that optimized spaces are not only well-designed but also effectively scheduled and utilized, connecting space design quality with utilization efficiency through a unified platform.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for discovering space characteristics, the system comprising a data store storing a facility information dataset corresponding to a physical world facility, the facility information set including a 3D virtual world (VW) representation, a plurality of volume specifications, one volume specification for each of a plurality of different volumetric portions of the VW representation, an interface device including a display screen located within the facility associated with the VW representation, occupancy sensors, a processor linked to the interface device and the data store, the processor programmed to perform the steps of accessing the VW representation of the facility, presenting a first view of the VW representation via the display screen as a space discovery tool for a user to view, visually distinguishing volumetric portions of the VW representation corresponding to portions of the physical world facility that are currently unoccupied, receiving user input via the interface device to change the view of the VW representation on the display screen and changing the view of the VW representation on the display screen to a second view based on the received user input.