3. App overview

• Home Screen
• Space Overview
• Quick Access Panel
• Dashboard
• Devices
• Assets
• Scenes
• Resources*
• Providers
• Connections
• Import device
• Device list
• Space Settings
• General info
• Rooms
• Users
• Role Templates
• Activity log
• Interior Editor
• Account
• Subscription Plans
• Preferences
• SIMLAB Cloud

Home Screen

When you launch SIM-ON, you start in the Space Browser view, which is your Home Screen, it includes the following:

• My Spaces
  Explore all the spaces you have access to, from this organized section

• News
  Catch up on the latest from SIM-ON, SIMLAB, and the ever-evolving world of IoT
  

To access the Home screen at any point while working on a SIM-ON space, select the Browse Spaces located in the Side Panel menu

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In the Home Screen you will find the following buttons:

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  Select this button to create new project space
  
  
• Account:
  Opens a roll-out quick access menu of your Account
  
  
• Full screen:
  Toggles between full screen and windowed view

Space Overview

Quick overview of the Project Viewport.

1. Left Side Menu panel
2. Viewport
3. Active Space (Current Room)
4. Currently Active users / User Account / fullscreen toggle
5. Right side Quick panel
6. Room quick access

• At the top left corner there is the burger menu that rolls out the Side Panel.
• Just under it, is located the interior editor toggle.
  If you've added any 3D assets to your scene, you will be able toggle their visibility. This will change the icon.
• In the top central part you can see the the current active space, next to it is the  lock icon. To edit the space you need to first unlock the space editing. You can do it by "unlocking" the lock icon by clicking it.
• Since the 3D View of the app uses the Matterport Virtual Tour, all the regular Matterport 3D space features are available from the bottom left corner of the viewport.

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Side panel

The left side panel is the main menu of the app, from which all other views and features are accessible from. These are as follows:

3D Walk

The Matterport-supported virtual tour view of the app. it is the central, main view of the app, used to manage and showcase the space. From here you can:

• Move around in the virtual space 
• Setup rooms for swipes
• Use Quick Access Panel for various in-app operations
• Place devices within the 3D space

And many more.

To learn about all the features of the app, go through the following pages

 

Dashboard

Setup, edit and manage all of the Devices, Assets and Scenes within the project. 

See Dashboard chapter for detailed feature and functionality description

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Providers

Manage your Smarthome providers. Add/remove the Hubs to the project, manage connected devices and their status.

See Providers chapter for detailed feature and functionality description

Interior Editor

Place 3D models within the virtual space of the project to explore the possible arrangements for your space, using our model library.

See Interior Editor page for detailed feature and functionality description

Space Settings

General project management view, mainly used by project managers to handle: users, user roles and the activities within the project. 

Additionally: basic project information and Room manager can be accessed from here.

See Space Settings chapter for detailed feature and functionality description

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My spaces

Return to the Home screen of the app. See the available Spaces and News.

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Quick Access panel

Used in tandem while in 3D Walk to access the features of the app for smooth user experience in managing:

• Devices
• Scenes
• Assets
• Events
• Tickets

See Quick Access Panel page for detailed feature and functionality description

Quick Access Panel

Devices   If there are connected devices, you will see a list containing all of them. You can interact with them by clicking their thumbnails.       Depending on the Device type there will be different information, status and icon for the device, as well as various options     To find the device's location, click on the pin icon. You'll see the marker of the device and be transported to its place.

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Scenes

Quick access to all of the scenes in the Dashboard.

In the Scenes tab you can manage the devices scenario for the whole room/area. After adding a scenario, you’ll have access to play the scene or change its options (name, icon, trigger, scene construction).         To play the scene, click on the button/icon and the status will change.

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Assets

Asset tool provides a comprehensive repository for all data related to the components and equipment of a property. Users can place Asset icons within a 3D space tour, each linking to a detailed database that includes text descriptions, active links, images, documents, and YouTube videos. It also allows users to link events directly to the property maintenance schedule.

Clicking on an Assets tab - you will see the Asset List displaying available assets within project. Clicking on Asset Tile or Asset Icon in the list within 3D space will open with model details will pop up. On the details window you can locate the asset, add media or visit the dashboard.

Asset list	Asset Panel

You can also add another asset from here - hover over icon, located at the bottom right of the asset list (if there are a lot of assets you'll have to scroll down the asset list to find it) to reveal button. 

The Asset Panel will appear:

To Create an Asset, all fields marked with a red asterisk * need to be filled. You can add multiple photos, videos, documents or create events with your asset, as seen in the prior screenshot.

When you're done, click the  button to finalize asset creation. From now on your Asset will be visible in the Asset List and in 3D view (if you assigned it a position.)

Maximo Links

If there is currently added IBM Maximo provider to the scene, Simon Assets will have an additional option of linking with Maximo Assets, as seen in the image below, an additional option field appears at the bottom of the asset stack, under Events:

To Learn more about IBM Maximo integration, see: adding IBM Maximo to the Scene and additional Resources view.

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Events

Access to the event timeline showing incoming events.

Events feature lets you track and manage different events happening in your home.   1. Event Timeline: You can view all the events happening in your home on a timeline, showing when each event takes place. The timeline shows you events as they happen, so you’re always up to date. 2. Search: You can search for specific device using the Search panel at the top of the window.   If you want to see the location for a specific asset, click on the pin icon of the asset to find it easily. 3. Edit Events: If you need to change details about an event, just click on the Event Tile of the Asset, to quickly open an Asset Panel of the device and edit it from there.

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Tickets

In the Ticket tabs you can find comments added in the project. You can create a new one or edit an existing one.

Tickets list

Detailed view

Reporting Problems

•  If something isn’t working, like a light or thermostat, you can report it through the system’s app or interface.

Maintenance Requests

• You can create tickets for routine tasks, like changing air filters or checking battery levels.
• The system might allow to connect with service providers to create tickets for them for fixing or maintenance.

New Ideas

•  If you have an idea for a new feature, you can suggest it by creating a ticket.
• Voting: Others can vote on your suggestion, helping the team decide what to work on next.

Support and Troubleshooting

• If you need support, you can create a ticket and track its progress.
• The ticket can be connected to a specialist, making it easier to get help when you need it.

Dashboard

Devices

In the Devices view you can see all the devices in the selected rooms or all devices in the project if All Rooms option is selected.

Device List

Rooms: Room isolation - Left hand side column is dedicated to sorting the devices by rooms. Here you can either toggle the displayed devices either to a specified room or every available one. Display - The main, central body of the view, where the devices are displayed, sorted by rooms, with applied filters. Filters Category - Lets you filter the displayed devices by a category of the device. Remember, you have to set the device category manually, when setting up devices. Search - Use the text field to type a name of the device you are looking for.

 

Device Details

After clicking on one of the devices, you will see the device details. By clicking the pin icon you can transport to the device's location, If the device wasn't placed yet, you can do it by clicking on the add icon.

 

Device Settings

By clicking settings icon you can change the device's details: name, icon, image, category, room, and visibility in the 3D view.

 

Device Structure

You can also see a device structure - it varies for different devices - there can be a few devices connected to one master device, or just one. It depends on the provider's hub structure and you can decide which elements should be visible in the 3D view.

Assets

An asset is a physical object (that lacks smart connectivity) you, as a user, wish to keep track of in the SIM-ON project space. For example assets, see the screenshot below.

In the Assets view you can see all the assets in the selected rooms or all Assets in the project if All Rooms option is selected. 

Rooms: Room isolation - Left hand side column is dedicated to sorting the assets by rooms. Here you can either toggle the displayed assets either to a specified room or every available one. Display - The main, central body of the view, where the assets are displayed, sorted by rooms, with applied filters. Filters Category - Lets you filter the displayed devices by a category of the asset. Remember, you have to set the asset category manually, when setting up assets. Search - Use the text field to type a name of the asset you are looking for.

Selecting an asset tile will reveal it's details. Press "Edit asset" to manage the asset information and files uploaded to it.

IBM Maximo

If you have a connected Maximo provider to your space, you gain an additional feature within Assets to link them with Maximo assets:

When asset is not linked with Maximo, you will see the following options:   Adding from existing lets you add a link that you might have added before in the Resources page. This will reveal a similar Maximo Links list for you to choose from:

Selecting "Add new" will open the following Maximo List to add new link from.

Scenes

Automate the Devices behavior with various triggers and states within the project.

Scene view

In the Scene view you can see all the scenes available. Scenes can manage different scenarios including turning on the lights on, planning to turn on or off different devices depending on the various triggers. Additionally you can add new scenes from here as well or delete the existing ones. To delete a scene, click the more options button on the scene tile. Clicking a Scene Tile will open Scene Editor view, where you can edit the scene if necessary.

Scene editor

To add a new scene, click the button. This will invoke the Scene editor view. You need to provide a name, icon, select scene trigger and create scene construction and then save it.

Resources*

This View is specific only to IBM Maximo provider. See how to connect an IBM Maximo provider 

Manage Maximo links, and asset connections 

Inspecting a Maximo item shows currently linked assets, together with a quick access to their location.  Additionally, we can go directly to the linked item in the Maximo site.

Adding Maximo Link

From this panel you can also "pre-add" Maximo items for easier linking/management in the future. Press the " + Add " button 

With the revealed panel, we must choose the Maximo system we want to list items from and select the desired one. The name of an item can be changed for the Simon side, but it's not necessary, as it will inherit the name by default.

Providers

Connections

The Connections tab displays all the 3rd party HUBs that are currently connected to your space. From this view you can add or remove HUB connections.

Add/remove connections Smart Home Smart Things KNX NETx IBM Maximo

The connected HUBs listed here will be automatically sorted to corresponding families they belong to. HUB names will be displayed here together with serial numbers of the HUB. Additionally you can check whether the HUB is currently online and toggle its status manually.

Import device

In this tab will be displayed all the devices from the Connected HUBs that are not yet imported to the SIMON device list. Here you will be able to search and filter the devices by provider, hub and name. To further locate the desired device

Import You can import devices from the connected HUBs. Filter You can filter devices.

Device list

All the linked devices will be available here. From this tab you’ll be able to check the status of the device, which HUB it belongs to, the Provider family and assigned room of the device.

Space Settings

General info

In the General info tab you can see the most basic information about your space, such as address, cloud space limit usage, space components and space owner.

• General Information
  Check your space basic information: name, street, house number, apartment number, town, region, zip code and country, space owner. You can also Leave the space from here.
  

With appropriate permissions you can Edit General info from here as well as delete the space itself

 

• Plan Limits
  Check your scene limits usage: you can see how many devices and scenes you used in your project as well as how much cloud space is being used.
  

Remember that the cloud space limit usage depends on the subscription plan and might vary from the information above

 

• Virtual Walk Source
  In here you can change the link to your Matterport Virtual Tour Scan.

Rooms

By clicking on one of the existing rooms on the list on the left you can isolate it to see details about this one selected room only

Search Here you can search for the room by its name Add Room Here you can add a new room. After clicking “Add new room” you need to enter the room name. After creating it you can assign the sweeps in the 3D walk view to your new room. Room list The room list shows you all the rooms that’ve been created.

Edit Room After selecting the room from the list on the left or choosing one of them while All Rooms are selected and clicking Edit room, you’re able to change the name of the room and set the color. Both the name and room color will be visible in the 3D walk view. To save the changes, click Save changes. Asset list Below the room name you can see a list of assets that were added to the room. You can click on the asset to see its details.

Users

In the User tab you can manage the users in your space, edit their roles, remove them from the project or add new users.

User list Under the User name you can see the list of all users. Add users If you’re the project owner you can click on Add new user to create a new user. You need to provide a username, email address and role(s).

Keep in mind, that the access to the Users tab requires appropriate permissions

Role Templates

In the Role templates tab you can add or change role permissions.

Role list - List with all of the roles that were created for the project.

Add new role - By clicking button you can create a new set of privileges. First you need to enter a role name and after clicking Confirm you can use checkboxes to make some privileges allowed.                       There are a few tabs that you can change privileges in: General privileges, Rooms, Devices, Assets, Scenes, Tickets.

You can create multiple roles with different privileges depending on who you share the project with. If you want to share it with subcontractors, you may want to give them roles to edit assets or devices. If you want, you may want to give separate roles to plumbers, electricians, people controlling the project, your closest associates, etc. 

If you set some general privileges (eg. to create rooms), the privileges on the other categories will change too.

In the example above, the Designer has some privileges to manage Interior Designer, Create tickets and view providers. Automatically some of the privileges was created as you can see in the image below, but you can revoke the access to specific rooms, devices or other options (in this example the Designer role allows to manage the Interior editor, create tickets and view providers excluding TURQUOISE, GREEN and PINK rooms).

Keep in mind, that the access to the Role templates tab requires appropriate permissions

 

Activity log

In the Activity log tab you will find the latest activity in the project and its type, time and the user it was triggered by.

Search - You can look for activities in the project by providing the event type. Filter - You can filter out activity by the type of the activity, timeframe or the user. Display - The list of activities is displayed here, sorted by the time, from earliest to oldest. It is further filtered by the filter and search options. Each activity has a type, time, user and short description.

Interior Editor

In the model browser you can find 3D models, grouped by a few categories. It's a great tool for organizing and planning purchases, renovations, and interior design projects.

After entering the Interior editor, the Model browser will be automatically opened. You can close it at any time, simply click the arrow icon.     If you decide to reveal it later on, you can do this by clicking the armchair icon  located at the top left corner.

Search You can find a model you’re looking for by typing the name in the search bar. Model Filters You can look for the specific model using filters. Model Types There are 6 model types: consumer electronics, decorations, furniture, lights, premade sets and walls.

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Layout

In the Layout manager window you can see the list with all the 3D models added to the project and manage different model sets, called layouts, to set up multiple variations of spaces to preview.   Access the Layout Manager by clicking layered icon located in the top right corner.   To close the layout manager window, click arrow icon.

The uppermost tab of the layout manager is for grouping the models into “layouts”. By expanding the tab withyou’ll see a list of existing layouts and an option to add a new layout.

• Search
  After adding 3D models to the scene, you can search for the desired model in the current layout by typing its name in this text field.
  
  
• Model List
  A list with all the models added to the currently selected layout.
  
  
• Model Actions
  You can click on the pin icon to see where the object is placed, change visibility of the model by clicking the view  icon or delete the model by clicking the bin icon.
  
  
• Layout Actions
  Further layout actions can be accessed by revealing the options tab. There you are able to clone the currently selected layout, rename it or delete it.
  
  
• Layout toggles
  To access the toggles, simply click the settings icon. You can toggle the visibility of layout model sets and choose the default one to be displayed.

Account

Subscription Plans

Central panel for License management, displaying all of the necessary information and plan details together with the history of payments, all in one, easily accessible space.

• Current plan
  In this section you’ll see your current plan and it's features.
  
  
• Invoice address
  The specified information for payments will be displayed here. Select the edit icon to open a text window where you will be able to edit the information.
  
  
• Settlements and payments
  The upcoming transactions will be displayed here.
  
  
• Plan details
  Section displaying your current plans limits and their usage by space.
  
  
• Promo codes
  If you have a promo code, here’s where you can apply it.
  
  
• Invoice history
  The history of your account payments together with Invoice numbers, dates, plan names and costs.
  
  
• Check plans
  You can check all the plans here or by clicking on the image below.
  

The price of the product may vary depending on the user's location and the time of purchase. Please check the final price before completing your purchase

Preferences

A place to adjust language, units, electricity and other miscellaneous options.

• Error handling
  Few toggleable options for the power user
  
  
• Language
  Available localisations: English, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, German
  
  
• Temperature
  Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin
  
  
• Power
  kWh, Joule
  
  
• Electricity price conversion
  Toggleable option for automatic power price conversion

SIMLAB Cloud

Your main profile view where you can change your password/name and access the SIMLAB apps from.

SIMLAB Cloud is a comprehensive digital platform designed to support the entire lifecycle of building management through its Digital Twin solutions. It integrates advanced technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), and 3D visualization to create a digital replica of physical assets, like houses, hospitals, factories. This digital ecosystem allows users to manage every aspect of a property from design and construction to maintenance or renovation.

You can select one of two solutions:

• SIM-ON: A versatile platform  that leverages the Matterport scans to create a dynamic 3D visual interface. It integrates seamlessly with IoT and building automation systems like Fibaro, NETX, Samsung SmartThings and KNX, allowing for effective asset management and facility maintenance.

• STAGES: Another solution under SIMLAB Cloud, STAGES focuses on monitoring the construction process and facilitates communication among teams and stakeholders. It offers tools for comparing different phases of a project using Matterport scans, 3d models, which helps in managing changes and maintaining a historical record of the building's state using the timeline.