Home bases are used in route planning by the Soobr algorithm for the most ideal distribution of areas between tours that share areas. 

Home base

Home bases play a central role in tour planning for tours that share areas. Provided that a tour has only fixed areas/categories assigned, the initial area has no effect. If two or more tours per floor share the same areas, the initial area is included for the distribution. It is important that only the coordinates of the initial area are used. Therefore, the selected surface does not need to be cleaned for the algorithm to plan correctly. The surface simply serves as an anchor point. An initial surface can thus be, for example, a cleaning room or an elevator, from which the tour usually starts. 

The home base option is not on all economic entities active

Vertical and horizontal tours

Based on the initial surfaces of the split tours, the algorithm automatically recognizes whether they are vertical or horizontal tours. Vertical tours are tours that travel only on one part of the floor, but travel on several floors. For example, for toilet tour A, the starting area is set on the left part of the floor, and for toilet tour B on the right side of the floor, then tour 4 will clean the toilets on the left side of the building, and tour B will clean the toilets on the right side of the building. Floor changes are not minimized, but tours are seen to move around "their" part of the building.

For horizontal tours, the exit faces are on different floors. It is tried to minimize the floor changes and to do as many surfaces as possible near the starting surface. In this way, precinct tours can be mapped. For example, in a four-story building, if the starting face for tour A is set on the 4th floor and for tour B it is set on the first floor, then the algorithm will try to assign faces as close to the 4th floor as possible for tour A and as close to the first floor as possible for tour B.