Edit a Real Time Floor Map

A heatmap provides a visual representation of device signal strength across a floor plan. By editing the heatmap, you can identify areas with weak coverage, interference, and dead zones. This information helps network administrators optimize device placement and improve overall network performance.

ExtremeCloud‌ IQ supports the following real-time floor map editing functions:

Draw Inner Walls
Add a Device to a Floor Plan
Move a Device to a New Location on a Floor Plan
Remove a Device from a Floor Plan
Layer Opacity Adjustment
Resize the Heat Map

Use this task to edit a floor map.

Go to Manage > Real time maps.
Select a floor from the location list.

Note
The selected floor must include a floor map. For more information, see Add a Floor Plan.
Select the icon.

To draw inner walls:

Select Walls.

Select a wall type.

Table 1. Floor Plan Wall Types
Wall Colour	Description
	Bookshelf 5dB
	Cubicle 2dB
	Dry Wall 3dB
	Brick Wall 5dB
	Concrete 15dB
	Elevator Shaft 10dB
	Thin Door 4dB
	Thick Door 10dB
	Thin Window 1dB
	Thick Window 6dB
Draw Perimeter	Draw the outside boundary of the building. Note: When importing a new map, a perimeter is automatically established around the entire image unless the map already has a predefined preimeter. To adjust the perimeter, select Draw Perimeter, and then double-click the perimeter and drag to the desired location.

Select each corner of an inner wall on the floor plan to draw a wall boundary.
When you reach the end of the wall boundary, double-click the last corner to complete the wall.

Note
Right-click on a wall to change its type or delete it.
To disable the pen tool, press the ESC key on your keyboard.

To add a device to the floor plan, select Devices:
1. Select a device, or use the Search field to find a device.
2. Hover your cursor over the floor map and select the desired location to add the device to the floor plan.
Note
Only devices that are not associated with the floor plan are displayed.
To move a device to a new location on the floor plan, select a device and drag it to the desired location.
To remove a device from the floor plan, right-click the device and then select .

Note
The removed device displays in the Devices list.
To adjust the opacity of the heat map layers, select Layers and adjust the opacity slider bar to make a layer more or less transparent.

Note
As you adjust the slider bar, the layer opacity changes on the map in real time.

To resize the heat map, select Resize, configure the following settings, and then select Resize.

Table 2. Resize Heat Map Settings
Field	Description
Metric Width	The new heat map width (meters).
Metric Height	The new heat map height (meters).