WinProp for Realtime Applications

Balaji Viswanadh Gollapalli

Hi All,

 

I have been exploring weather WinProp (ProMan) can be used for real time applications. The main obstacle for real time performance is the time winprop takes to provide heat maps.  

I think, if we could query winprop to provide point to point values instead of a entire prediction plane of many points, then we can unlock its real time potential.

Would you please advise if there an API or something through which can accomplish this.

 

Thanks

Have a great day

Balaji

 

 

 

Reiner_Hoppe

Hi Balaji,

 

there is also  a point mode in the ProMan GUI version which can be used to check the computation time for computing a few points.

However for some of the WinProp propagation models the computation is done always for the full area, which is due to the specific implementation in order to achieve short computation times for generating the heat maps. So the IRT ray tracing model (based on preprocessing) and the DPM dominant path model are always computing area-wide.

 

The SRT standard ray tracing model computes each point individually, so here the computation time is affected by the number of points which are computed (linear increase with the number). So you can derive the computation time for a single point also by the computation time for the area divided by the number of computed points (can be checked under the info button). The computation time depends also on the number of objects (e.g. building walls) included in the scenario and how many reflections and diffractions shall be computed (especially the diffractions are time-consuming as leading to ray multiplication). But for 1-2 reflections and a limited number of objects the computation time might approach real-time.

 

Best regards

Reiner