Planning Tool: Understanding Site Planning Toolbar Features and Views

This article is an overview of the Site Management app’s Planning tool that provides quick access to the tools you need to design, simulate, and optimize your deployment plan.

Focuses on helping you understand the functions, toolbar features, and options within the Planning Tool so you can work confidently with your site layout.

Main Menu

The main menu provides access to saving your plans and find the Help Center.

• Save Plan: Saves the plan to your proposal plan.
• Save as: Saves the plan to a different proposal plan.
• Export as: Export devices to a CSV file, or a Plan(.dryad)
• Help Center: Links to the Help Center Articles.
• Home: Back to Planning Homepage

Toolbar

The Toolbar provides access to the tools for estimating coverage requirements.

• Select: Use to select paths, areas or Gateways on the map.
• Draw path: Use the Path tool to define high-density deployment areas such as hiking paths, rail lines, power lines.
• Draw area: Use the Area tool to define lower density deployment areas such as forested areas.
• Plan connectivity: Use the Connectivity tool to define the number and placement of Border Gateways and Mesh Gateways to build up a successful Mesh Network in the Site.
• Comments: Use the Comment tool to add relevant comments to the plan.

Planning Overview

Searching your area on the Search section, or you can import KML, KMZ and Shapefiles as a geographical reference.

Shapefiles must be uploaded as a .zip file bundle containing all required components (.shp, .shx, .dbf, etc.).

Views

The planning tool offers multiple views to help visualize and analyze the area effectively. Users can switch between Satellite and Outdoor views, providing different perspectives of the environment. 

In addition, the tool includes several feature overlays:

• Terrain View – Displays the topology of the area, highlighting how hills, valleys, and other elevation changes may impact sensor message transmissions. It also identifies areas that may present challenges for deployment, such as steep or difficult-to-access terrain.

• Daily Fire weather Index View – By selecting this overlay, users can see areas classified by their risk of fire, from low to high, allowing for better planning in fire-prone regions. This Fire Danger Forecast is integrated in to our system from Copernicus

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• Fire Protection Layer – Provides additional context on the estimated detection time of your deployment plan.

The tool also includes essential navigation features, such as zoom in/out controls and a compass, ensuring users can easily explore and orient themselves within the map.