Ibwave Propagation - Quick Start Guide

Propagation Module Quick Start Guide

The Propagation Propagation Module Quick Start Guide For iBwave Design Version 5.0

Prediction Prediction Toolbar Toolbar and Colour Colour Scheme Quick access to the Prediction Properties section within the Project Properties window.

Refer to Predict sub-menu To draw walls/horizontal /inclined surfaces.

Prediction Rectangle Area allows to define the area(s) for which a prediction is wanted within a Layout Plan. If omitted, entire Layout Plan dimension will be used by default.

Color scheme (under the “Output Map Configuration” window) dropdown list contains entries defined under the Color scheme section under Project Properties. Selected entry will be applied to current prediction view.

Dataview Filters Related to Prediction Once prediction results have been computed, computed, they must be displayed from the Prediction Prediction Panel window window as per below: If enabled, Signal probe levels will appear at the tip of the mouse cursor. Display Prediction results for one or a combination of systems altogether.

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3D View of floor plan or complete building You can choose to see a floor or the complete building in 3D

Show current

Show current plan plan in 3D. in 3D.

Show the building of current plan in 3D.

Prediction Panel By default, Prediction Panel can be located at the right-hand side of the iBwave Design window.

Enabling this checkbox will display the contour on Layout Plan. User can have as many Output Maps as needed.

Enabling this checkbox will display the signal strength on Layout Plan.

Each name name of th the e Output Map can be customized as per user preferences.

Add or remove Output Map This icon will bring out the Project properties -> Prediction

Enabling this checkbox will display the prediction results on Layout Plan.

Predict All Layout Plan Predict default values for the Layout Plan

This icon will show the current prediction status

Predict current active Layout Plan 2


Walls iBwave iBwave Design allows allows you to add walls onto your Layout Layout Plans Plans using 3 different different methods: 1. CAD file file import (Prediction, (Prediction, Import Import Walls) 2. Image Image file import import (or pixel convert converter) er) (Prediction, Import Walls) and 3. free-hand free-hand drawing. € Import .vex File

In order to be able to define walls on the Layout Plan, users need to import the vex file for Propagation into their database.

.vex import is done in DB Editor. 1. Click on Import under File.

2. Choose the .vex file for Propagation.

3. Click Open.

1. Open Open DB Edit Editor or.. 2. Go to File File/I /Imp mpor ort. t. 3. Lo Loca cate te the the .ve .vex x file file for Propagation. If you do not have have this this file, you can down do wnlo load ad it from from www.ibwave.com/myibwave.aspx > downloads 4. Select Select the the ..vex vex file file and click click open open.. 5. Once it is loaded, close close your your DB Editor Editor and and it will prompt prompt you to save. save. Click Click on ‘Yes’ to save the changes. 6. Go to iBwave Design and update update your databas database e unde underr Tools/Upda Tools/Update te Database. Database. 3


Prediction Prediction Step-by-Step Step-by-Step (Also See Images after procedure) procedure) Using ACAD Files 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Make sure the .vex .vex file for propagat propagation ion was was imported imported to to the database. database. Create Create an an emp empty ty Layout Layout Plan Plan.. Go to Import Import walls walls under under Prediction Prediction Menus Menus at the the top most most toolbar. toolbar. A window window will pop pop up to prompt prompt you you to select select a CAD file to be be loaded. loaded. Select Select the the ..dwg dwg file file and and click click open. open. Once it is loaded, loaded, you will will be able to to see a window window where where you can select select different layers to be displayed. 7. Unselect Unselect the layers layers that are not not required. required. Choose Choose the ones representi representing ng walls. walls. 8. Depending Depending on the previous previous layers layers selected, selected, the the user will will be asked to define define each layer or all layers with a material in the database. 9. After clicking clicking ok, ok, you will be asked to specify specify the the height of the the 2D walls walls either per layer by entering the height and pressing OK or for all layers by entering the height and pressing OK, all layers. 10.By clicking import, it will transfer the selected layers to iBwave Design. 11. A Layout Plan with all the defined walls walls will be be displayed. Scale the plan accordingly using the Ruler. 12.Imported walls will be proportionally stretched to fit the plan. 13.Once 13. Once the walls had had been imported imported to the Layout Plan, Plan, scale scale it accordingly. accordingly. 14.You can start placing the antennas and components on top of the Layout Plan. 15.Once you finish the design, go to Prediction Properties under Project Properties. 16.In the Prediction Properties, you can define all the prediction parameters accordingly, as well as the prediction setting to suit your needs. 17.Once all the settings are being made, go to Output Maps Configuration in the Prediction Panel to create the type of output maps you would like to have. 18.Once all the maps are created, click on the Predict icons on the Prediction Panel. You can choose either to predict the Layout Plan one at a time time or the entire project. 19. After the prediction is done, enable the Prediction/Indoor Prediction/Indoor check box under the Prediction Prediction Panel in order to display display the results for the desired desired output maps. maps. 20.You can display the Prediction Legend by selecting the legend icon in the toolbar and place it on the Layout Plan. 21.To customise the legend, simply double click on the legend and it will bring you to the color schemes. 22.You can customise your own legend according to requirement or you can choose from the default legend. 23.If you would like to know the signal strength at a certain area, enable the signal probe checkbox in the Prediction Prediction Panel. As you move move your mouse across the Layout Plan, it will give you the signal strength reading accordingly. 24.The prediction result will be saved automatically once you save your project file. * A height of 0 is equivalent equivalent to selecting ‘Ignore all 2D objects’.

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1. Prediction 2. Imp Import walls

3. Sele Select ct tthe he CA CAD D fil file e to import (*.dwg)

4. Click Open

5. You You then then sele select ct the layers that will represent your walls in iBwave Design.

6. You then choose how you want the walls to be assigned for each layer.

7. You then choose how you want the Wall Optimization Type to be.

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8. Depending on the previous Material assignment, you will be asked each layer or all layers with a material defined in the database.

Click OK

If the Autocad file does not contain height information about the layers, you then need to select a desired height for those 2D objects. IMPORTANT: Please note that the height height will will not not be higher than the value you have in iBwave Design. You will need to set it in your Plan or project properties.

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Once walls are imported into iBwave Design, you will be able to remove unneeded layers from your Layout Plan using the Wall simplification tool.

9. Once all walls are associated with the proper material, you can Lock size and position of all walls.

10. If required, you can now associate imported walls with the proper material. Right-click a wall and select Replace components | All components like this one.

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Prediction Step-by-Step (Also See Images after procedure) Using Image Files automatically converted automatically converted 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Make sure sure the .vex .vex file for for propagation propagation was was imported imported to to the database. database. Create Create an an emp empty ty Layout Layout Plan Plan.. Go to Import Import walls walls under under Prediction Prediction Menus Menus at the the top most most toolbar. toolbar. A window window will pop pop up to prompt prompt you you to select select an image image ffile ile to be loaded. loaded. Selec Selectt the the imag image e file file and and clic click k open. open. Once it is loaded, loaded, you will will be prompte prompted d to make your your settings. settings. It is recommended to use default settings for best performance. (You can use the preview buttons to have a look at the conversion image.) Click Import. 7. User will will be asked asked to to define define th the e material material of the walls in the databa database. se. (One material for all walls.) 8. After clicking clicking ok, ok, you will be asked to specify specify the the height of the the 2D walls walls either per layer by entering the height height and pressing OK, OK, or for all layers by entering the height and pressing OK, all layers. 9. All walls walls are are now now trans transfer ferred red to iBwa iBwave ve Desig Design. n. 10.There might be a need to reduce some walls, as they might not necessarily be real walls, but maybe text or similar on the image file. 11.Walls can be selected and replaced to represent the real wall scenario. 12. A Layout Plan with all the defined defined walls will be displayed on on the Layout Plan. Scale the plan accordingly using the Ruler. 13.Imported walls will be proportionally stretched to fit the plan. 14.You can start placing the antennas and components on top of the Layout Plan. 15.Once you finish the design, go to Prediction Properties under Project Properties. 16.In the Prediction Properties, you can define all the prediction parameters accordingly, as well as the prediction setting to suit your needs. 17. Once all the settings are being made, go to Output Maps Configuration in the Prediction Panel to create the type of output maps you would like to have. hav e. 18.Once all the maps are created, click on Predict icons on the Prediction Panel. You can choose to predict the Layout Plan one at a time or the entire project. 19.After the prediction is done, enable the Prediction/Indoor check box under the Prediction Panel in order to display the results for the desired output maps. 20.You can display the Prediction Legend by selecting the legend icon in the toolbar and place place it on the Layout Plan. Plan. 21.To customise the legend, simply double click on the legend and it will bring you to the color schemes. 22.You can customise your own legend according to requirement or you can choose from the default legend. 23.If you would like to know the signal strength at a certain area, enable the signal probe checkbox in the Prediction Prediction Panel. As you moved moved your mouse across the Layout Plan, it will give you the signal strength reading accordingly. 24. The prediction result will be saved automatically once you save your project file. * A height of 0 is equivalent to selecting ‘Ignore all 2D objects’. 8


1. Prediction 2. Import walls

3. Select the image image file to import (*.JPG/bmp/tiff/gif) 4. Click Open

6. Select “Preview Threshold”

5. Set all the parameter accordingly (Please refer to the Recommendation section for guideline).

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7. Use slider and select desired threshold value according to preview!

8. Press OK

Once users users are satisfied satisfied with the settings, click on “Preview” to view the result of the settings.

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On the tool bar, it will show the total number of walls that will be imported.

If users are unhappy with the result, he/she can go back to the Raster to Vector window and change the settings.

9. Press Import

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Parameters

Descriptions

Threshold Color

Color sh shade of im image is converted into just black and white image. [0=only black color will be converted] [255=all colors will be converted to black] Straighten indicates when curve is pulled into beeline, the dot in the the curv curve e is the maximum maximum d dista istance nce from the beeline. The higher the value, the straighter the lines will be. Note: Curves might be straightened!!” Type of tracing to generate vector image. Center line: “Creates “Creates one center line for each each line”. Outline: “Creates an outline around lines” Recognises circles and bends When When c con onne necti cting ng two two bee beelin line e segm segment ents, s, the the c con onne necti ction on distance is the maxim maximum um value from one one beeline segment segment dot to another beeline segment dot. (Adjacent lines will be connected if the distance between them is smaller than the specified length.) Delete Delete mixed mixed-u -up p lines lines.. (Al (Alll line lines s smalle smallerr ttha han n the speci specifie fied d length [cm] will be deleted) Lines wi will ha have an adjusted wi width ac according to their original width Examples: Space Space by 1 Pixel Pixel All lines between 0-1 will be set to 1 All lines between 1-2 will be set to 2 … Space Space by 2 Pixel Pixel All lines between 0-2 will be set to 2 All lines between 2-4 will be set to 4 ... Lines in a certain angle will be adjusted to predefined angles Example Ortho: A line in an angle of up to 10° will be converted into a line with 0°, from 85° to 95° to 90°... Example SmallAngle: A line in an angle between 25° and 35° will be converted into a line with 30° 40° and 50° will be b e converted conve rted into i nto a line lin e with 45° 45 ° 55° and 65° will be b e converted conve rted into i nto a line lin e with 60° 60 ° 85° and 95° will be b e converted conve rted into i nto a line lin e with 90° 90 ° ...

Straighten

Trace Method

Recognize circle Conne Con nect ct adja adjace cent nt lines lines

Delete Delete mixed mixed-u -up p lines lines Adjust liline width

Adjust angle

Fill type Fill space

Defines how the space in between the outline is filled Defines the spacing of the fill type

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7. You will be asked to assign the layer with a material defined in the database. For Pixel Converter, you can only assign ONE material for all the layers.

Click OK

8. Select a desired height for those 2D objects. IMPORTANT: Please note that the height will not be higher than the value you have in iBwave Design. You will need to set it in your Plan or project properties.

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Once walls are imported into iBwave Design, you will be able to remove unneeded layers from your Layout Plan using the Wall simplification tool.

9. Once all walls associated with the proper material, you can Lock size and position of all walls

10. If required, you can now associate imported walls with the proper material. Right-click a wall and select Replace components | Selection

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Recommendations for Settings in Pixel Converter when importing walls from an image file:

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Prediction Step-by-Step (Also See Images after procedure) Using JPG/PDF JPG/PDF File with Free Free Hand Drawing Drawing (Also See Images after procedure) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Make sure sure the .vex .vex file for for propagation propagation was was imported imported to the the database. database. From the Layout Layout Plan Plan window, window, click on add Layout Layout Plan. Plan. Import Imp ort the image/ image/pdf pdf file. file. Once the Layout Layout Plan Plan had been imported imported,, scale the Layout Plan Plan accordingly. accordingly. Define Define all the the walls walls using using free hand drawin drawing g method. method. You can start start placing placing the antennas antennas and the the component components s on top of the the Layout Layout Plan. 7. Once you finish finish the design, design, go to to Prediction Prediction Properties Properties under under Project Project Properties. Properties. 8. In the Prediction Prediction Properti Properties, es, you can define define all all the prediction prediction paramet parameters ers accordingly, as well as the prediction setting to suit your needs. 9. Once all the the settings settings are being being made, go to Output Output Maps Maps Configurati Configuration on in the Prediction Panel to create the type of output maps you would like to have. hav e. 10. Once all the maps are created, created, click on the Predict icons on the Prediction Panel. You can choose either to predict the the Layout Plan one at a time time or the entire project. 11.After the prediction is done, enable the Prediction/Indoor check box under the Prediction Panel in order to display the results for the desired output maps. 12.You can display the Prediction Legend by selecting the legend icon in the toolbar and place it on the Layout Plan. 13.To customise the legend, simply double click on the legend and it will bring you to the color schemes. 14.You can customise your own legend according to requirement or you can choose from the default legend. 15.If you would like to know the signal strength at a certain area, enable the signal probe checkbox in the Prediction Prediction Panel. As you moved moved your mouse across the Layout Plan, it will give you the signal strength reading accordingly. 16.The prediction result will be saved automatically once you save your project file. **Note: the accuracy of the prediction is subjected to how how well the building was model compare to the actual built-up materials.

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1. Selec Selectt a mat mater erial ial from from the the Draw walls drop-down list contained within the Prediction toolbar

2. Once Once in wa wall ll draw drawin ing g mode the mouse changes to a cross. You can start drawing walls

3. Left Left clic click k whe where re you you want to begin a wall

Clicking the button will select the first material material from from the list. To select a specific material, click the arrow to pull-down a list of all materials. The three most recently used materials are at the top of the list

5. Rep Repeat eat step step 4 unti untill the wall is complete

1. To end end the the draw drawing ing process process,, double double-clic -click k instead of left-click at the last inflection point location or use the enter key or right-click the plan and select Enter from the menu

4. Move Move the the mo mous use e to to the the next inflection point (corner) of the wall. Leftclick to create the inflection point

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When drawing a wall manually, various operations are available. To access these operations, simply use the keyboard shortcuts or right-click the plan and choose from the following menu:

- Enter Key or Double-click: Double-click: Stops current wall drawing, and stays in wall drawing mode. - Ca Canc ncel el or Esc Key: Cancels current wall drawing. Remove last inflection point or Delete key: Removes the last wall corner drawn - Snap Snap at wall corne corners rs or F9 key: When approaching an existing wall corner, the mouse pointer will be attracted to it and display an orange square around the corner. If you left-click, your newly added inflection point will be positioned at the existing corner.

- Snap Snap on walls walls or or F10 key: When approaching an existing wall segment, the mouse pointer will be attracted to it and display an orange X on the segment. If you left-click, your newly added inflection point will be positioned at the X marking on the existing segment.

- Snap Snap on grid or F11 key: When you left-click to draw an inflection point, the position of the new point will be aligned to the grid.

- Orthogonal Orthogonal extensi extensions ons or or F12 key: When Orthogonal extension is turned on, only horizontal or vertical walls can be drawn.

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Wall Manipulations

Right-click a wall

Locks size and position of the selected wall

Remove the pointed endpoint/corner Select 2 walls and click Merge walls to unify them at their closest inflection points Splits the selected wall in 2 at the pointed inflection point Selects all walls

Prediction Select walls Selects all walls on current plan

Prediction Lock size and position of all walls Locks or unlocks all walls on current plan

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Wall Properties

Right-click wall Select Show part properties…

View various electrical properties

View the material manufacturer and model

Modify the trace Color, Color, the trace style or the trace width

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Wall Heights Once your wall has been imported imported into iBwave Design, Design, you have the possibility possibility to go back and change change their heights. heights. This can can be done if the the specific height height were not specified on the imported material that was used for your wall wa ll creation.

This value will specify at which height your Wall will start from. (0 if from the ground)

This will overwrite the default values in your Prediction Properties This value will be the highest point on the wall near the ceiling

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Objects To simulate three dimensional objects in iBwave Design, you will need to create objects that can represent floors or real objects.

1. For example in a 3D prediction you would need to create a floor as an object

2. The next step would be to create your floor on the layout plan

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Wall Holes If you want to simulate scenarios such as an atrium in a building bui lding you can create holes (using using “Air” as the wall wal l material) on top of the existing object to simulate an opening.

1. The first step would be to create your horizontal surface surface (floor) (floor) on the layout plan

2. The next step would be to create a “hole” on your floor plan to simulate the opening using “Air” as the wall material and drawing that on top of the horizontal surface.

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Inclined Surface To simulate simulate objects such such as staircase staircase in iBwave iBwave Design, Design, you will need to create objects that can represent floors or real objects with different height at both ends. Inclined surface can be use to defined such area.

2. The next step would be to create the surface on the layout plan. 1. Click Click on on Inclined Surface icon on the Prediction toolbar.

3. Right-click on the surface and select Set height for selected inclined plane. plane .

4. Move the cursor to set the desired height. 5. Check this option like to see the height on La out out Pla Plan n

6. Click OK when Done.

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The arrow shows the direction of the Inclined The height of each end is shown on the Layout Plan

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Frequently Asked Questions Q: Why was I unable to draw walls? A: Make sure that you have imported the .vex file for Propagation. If you just imported the .vex file, update your database before using Draw Walls. prediction result result not turn out as per expected. expected. Q: Why does the prediction A: The accuracy of the prediction results are based on how well the layout is being modeled. Make sure you have define define all the necessary walls before running the prediction.

Q: Why are there no prediction results being displayed? A: When this happens, there are a few ways to double check it. Do your transmitters have power? • Is the Layout Plan's Plan's scale scale set? • Is the prediction check box in the data view filter checked for your system? • Are there errors present in the debug message list that could affect your • prediction? • Does your prediction color legend cover the range of signal you expect? Use the prediction probe from the data view filter to check.

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Ibwave Propagation - Quick Start Guide

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