Uploading Background Image

The first time that you access a Floor Plan, you will need to upload a background image for your first floor. If you are accessing a Floor Plan from an area (building), the first floor is selected. If you are accessing a Floor Plan from a floor, that floor is selected.

When the floor plan is complete, you will need to click the Close button X to save and close. The Floor Plan can then be viewed throughout AirDefense, and can be used to locate devices in your network and display Live RF data.

To upload a background image, click the Continue floor configuration button or the Design Floorplan link to get started.

Note

The Floor Plan single dimension limit (width or height) is 8192 pixels while the total pixel count (width x height) limit is 8,000,000 pixels. If the appliance has at least 2GB of memory, the total pixel count may be as high as 16,777,215 pixels but the single dimension limit is still 8192 pixels.

Click the Browse button.
Browse to the location of the image, select it (usually a BMP, GIF, or JPG file), and then click Open. The Upload button is now active. Click it.

This is the Floor Plan wizard. You can use it to guide you through adding a floor to your Floor Plan.
You can crop the image to only show the area you are concerned with. Draw a rectangle around the area you want to crop by:
1. Clicking on a point in the image.
2. Dragging your mouse to draw the rectangle.
3. Clicking the end points of the rectangle.
Click the Crop button to complete cropping the image.
Click the Next: Scale Image button.
Scale your image by clicking on a point in the image, draw a line, and then click an end point. Enter the distance of the line which represents the actual length of the physical space in feet or meters. The Set scale button is activated. Click it to complete scaling.
The Next: Add to floor button is activated. Click it to add the floor to your floor plan.

Note
You can undo any changes by clicking the Cancel button. You can remove an image by clicking the Replace floor plan button.

Your uploaded floor plan will look similar to the following one:

You can now use the editing tools to add walls, cubicles, doors, elevators, etc. This allows you to account for building obstacles when AirDefense does calculations to locate devices and/or to display Live RF data.