IOT Heat Mapping

An interactive and visual way to interact with your data in 3D.

Heatmapping allows you to make interacting with your data a more interactive experiance. Heat mapping is like creating a color-coded map of in your 3D volumetric rooms, showing different values or conditions. For example, you might use a heat map to show which parts of a building get the most sunlight, or which parts of a machine get the hottest over the course of a day.

Viewing a heatmap

If a heatmap exists that viewing and interacting with a heatmap is easy.

Step 1 - first ensure you are in a 3D view with no sections cutting boxes enabled and that you are zoomed far enough out to see you whole building, You can do this by clicking the 'Home' button in the top right of the 3D view (1), then then click the 'Heatmap' button in the bottom toolbar (2)

Step 2 - The heat map popup will appear where you define what floor level you want to heatmap, what sensor data you want to visualise and finally the date range you wish to visualise the data over. When done click the 'Load Heatmap' button to load the heatmap.

Step 3 - After a few seconds the model will animate and cut to the floor you selected, and load the heatmap onto the view. There will be red markers showing where the sensors are located in 3D space. Clicking on a marker will show a popup with the value of the sensor. You can open multiple at once drag these to a suitable location of needed.

Step 4 - At the bottom of the window a green timeline will appear, starting and ending at the dates you specified in step 2. You can interact and scrub across the timeline by selecting the blue marker and dragging it over the timeline, it will initially be located to the far right of the timeline.

Step 5 - When done, click the Heatmap button again on the bottom tooldbar to close the heatmap and return to the model. Or you can click the blue 'Edit Filters' button to chage any of the options in step 2.

You can animate the timeline by clicking the animate button to the right of the Edit Filters button. You can speed up the playback speed (x1, x2, x4, x8, x16) by clicking the playback speed button.