Simulation is another tool in the soobr Cockpit. It is used to analyze cleaning tours, frequencies and the effect of occupancy data. A simulation can be used in different situations. 

The simulation can be found in the Business entity menu item under the Tour > Tour management tab.

Tours Simulation

By clicking on Simulation it is possible to configure the simulation.

The simulation also takes into account multiple executions per day with a time.
To do this, the time at which the cleaning is carried out must be set correctly manually.

Simulation type

Use existing services

This takes the current existing services and simulates into the future based on this. This simulation is ideal to see what could be scheduled in the next 5 days, for example.

Create new services

Here all services are created anew. It corresponds to the situation when a business entity is not yet active, i.e. no cleanings have been performed. This simulation is ideal before a business entity is live or if you want to simulate completely new tours.

Extended: Use existing services

Depending on the user authorization, a simulation can be performed with existing services with different settings.

Extended: Use existing services with snapshot

Depending on user authorization, a simulation can be performed with existing services with different settings from a snapshot. A snapshot can be created in the advanced simulation with existing services.

Extended: Create new services

Depending on user authorization, a simulation can be performed with new services with different settings.

Settings

Setting	Description	Simulation type
Number of days	Number of desired days for simulation	Standard simulation
Throttling application	Auto. Calculation of reduced tour duration	All simulations - only visible for soobr employees
Designation for simulation (Optional)	If desired, a designation for the simulation can be specified here. This helps to find the simulation again when it is displayed again.	All simulations
Start date	Start date of the simulation	Extended simulations
End date	End date of the simulation	Extended simulations
With event data	If available, IoT event data will be read.	Extended simulations
Manual completion time	Manual completion times (cleaning execution) can be defined.	Extended simulations
Save current power as snapshot	The powers used for the simulation can be saved as a snapshot. This allows the same services to be used for further simulations.	Extended simulations
Set manual IoT event read date	This setting can be used to determine the IoT event read period.	Extended simulations
Enable partial simulation	With this setting only parts (tours, floors, areas) of the business entity can be simulated.	Extended simulations

Click on Execute to start the simulation. The status of the simulation is displayed in the Tours tab.

Situations

Situation 1: initial tours simulation for a new business entity.

The simulation can be used to test the efficiency of the different planning versions.
For a newly created business entity, the simulation cannot access existing cleaning data.
For this reason, the simulation type "with new services" is used here.

Situation 2: Adjustment of existing areas and tours in an active business entity

Important: In an active business entity, all adjustments to the service
to the service specifications and the areas must first be 
the test environment first.
Tours can also be adjusted in the productive environment via planning versions.
can also be adjusted on the productive environment.

Every adjustment of the frequencies, activity types and activity numbers on an area has a direct influence on an existing tour. For this reason, a subsequent simulation is always mandatory.
In this way, changes in utilization can be perceived, as well as the correct steps for possible problem solving can be implemented.  Here the simulation type "simulate with existing services" is used.

Situation 3: Shifting of areas to other tours in an active business entity

For this, one can create a new planning version, reallocate areas or categories. Then the displayed planning version can be simulated. The changeover in the active planning version will be done afterwards.

Situation 4: Simulation on several days with the same initial situation

If simulation is executed over several days and the business entity is already in operation, the initial situation changes every day as cleaning operations are performed. With a snapshot, the initial situation can be kept stable. With the simulation type "Advanced: Use existing services" a snapshot can be created and the first simulation can be executed. With "Advanced: Use existing services from snapshot" this snapshot can then be used for further simulations.

A snapshot is automatically deleted after 14 days.

Situation 5: Simulation with IoT events

If IoT data is available on the business entity, it is taken into account in the simulation. In the standard simulation, the last 7 days of event data are taken as the mean value. In addition, a random fluctuation of +/-20% is calculated.

Special case simulation in the past

If simulation in the past is used via the extended simulation, the real IoT data is used.

Special case simulation set manual IoT event reading date

With the IoT event read date, real IoT data from the past can be used for a simulation into the future. For example, if a simulation is started for 14 days on Monday 12/12/2022 and the IoT event read date is set to 11/28/2022, the past two weeks will be used for the IoT event. Thus, on 12/12/2022, the IoT Event data of 11/28/2022 will be used, on 12/13/2022, the IoT Event data of 11/29/2022 will be used, and so on.

Situation 6: Manual completion times

The simulation always simulates cleaning completion at 5 p.m. unless a calendar is active. If a calendar is active, the calendar entries are taken into account and there is one completion time per tour execution. If you as a user want to achieve a more accurate simulation result, you can set the cleaning execution times manually via the manual completion times.