Overview Area Types

In addition to business entities, buildings and floors, area types in soobr are a key component of the data model.

Area types

In soobr, a space or area is referred as an area, which is treated as a unit in the cleaning process. For example, an office, a toilet, a forecourt in front of a building or a foyer can be an area. This area is assigned an area type in soobr, which determines which activity types, frequencies and service numbers should be applied to this type of area.

 

Generic areas and special areas

A distinction is made between generic areas and special areas. Generic area types are those area types that cover the standard configuration of power types, frequencies and power numbers and can thus be used for the majority of areas in a building. Special areas are created for surfaces that deviate from the standard case.

Special areas are special cases of areas that differ from generic areas with respect to one or more of the following characteristics:

• Cleaning frequency differs compared to the generic area type (e.g., daily cleaning of the specialty area compared to weekly cleaning of the generic area).
• Different activity types (e.g., a lavabo is included on the special area and not included on the generic area).
• Different service numbers (e.g. the generic office space is an open-plan office, and a special area with a lower service type is created for the individual offices).

Application example between generic areas and special areas

Initial situation: In an office building all office areas except two are cleaned in the same way. The two deviating areas differ from each other in the following characteristics:

• One office has carpeting instead of a hard-surface floor and therefore must be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner.
• Another office has a lavabo, which the others do not have.

The following area types are created for this office:

• Generic area type: Office
• Special area 1: Office with textile floor
• Special area 2: Office with lavabo

Overview of area types

Once created, all area types are listed alphabetically in list form. If special area types have been created, these are listed to the right of the generic area types and marked with an arrow.

Column	Information
Box	If one or more boxes are selected, the editing bar appears at the bottom of the screen. This can be used to control the display of labels, asign or remove documents, and delete area types
Name	Name of the area type and the bubbles shows how many areas this area type is active in. The color of the bubble reflects the color stored for the area type.
Label/Icon	Shows what has been stored on the area type: icon, label, or nothing.
Cleaning frequency	Shows the highest cleaning frequency that is active on the area type. If daily fixings/daily restrictions are activated, these are also displayed.
Categories	Displays all cleaning categories that are active on the area type. Categories with this colour contain activity types of the Cleaning type. Categories with this colour contain activity types of the Cleaning without scheduling type. Categories with this colour contain activity types of the On Demand type. Categories with this colour contain activity types of the Quality type. Categories that are red contain activity types with different types. We advise against this due to assignments.
Performance number	If only one performance number is active for the area type, this is displayed. If several performance numbers are active, the average value is displayed.
Minutes per week	If minutes have been stored for one ore more activity types for execution, the average number of minutes per week is displayed here.
Three-dot menu	The three-dot menu can be used to open the area type for editing, create a special area type, create a duplicate or delete the area type.