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AP AI Field

In development

Capture the room. Produce the drawing. Keep the evidence.

Native Apple field capture for commercial AV — measurement review, professional drawing and AV documentation produced on site, so what the field records is what the design receives.

For: Field engineers, surveyors and project managers working on commercial AV sites.

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Capabilities

  • Direct Leica DISTO Bluetooth synchronization

    In development

    Take a distance measurement on the meter and have it arrive in the drawing without retyping.

    We are developing direct Bluetooth synchronization with Leica DISTO laser distance meters.

    Current limitation: No tested device model or firmware range is published yet, so no specific meter should be assumed to be supported.

  • Multiple-manufacturer Bluetooth measurement support

    In development

    Work with laser distance meters from more than one manufacturer rather than a single vendor's hardware.

    We are developing measurement support across laser distance meters from multiple manufacturers.

    Current limitation: No compatibility matrix is published. Supported manufacturers, models and firmware ranges are not established.

  • Full professional CAD-grade floor-plan editing

    In development

    Edit floor plans on site to a standard the design side can build on, not a sketch that has to be redrawn.

    We are developing professional floor-plan editing intended for construction-grade use.

    Current limitation: Not commercially available. No DWG, Revit, IFC or BIM export is offered.

  • Automatic construction-ready reflected-ceiling-plan generation

    In development

    Generate a reflected ceiling plan from the captured room rather than drawing it a second time by hand.

    We are developing automatic reflected-ceiling-plan generation from captured room geometry.

    Current limitation: Not commercially available. Output quality and ceiling coverage are still being established against real rooms.

  • A large AV-specific symbol library

    In development

    Draw with symbols that mean something to an AV reviewer instead of generic shapes.

    We are developing an AV-specific symbol library for field drawing.

    Current limitation: Not commercially available. Library contents and standards coverage are not finalised.

  • Drag-and-drop AV device placement linked to shared equipment records

    In development

    Place a device on the plan and have it stay connected to the equipment record behind it.

    Designed so placed devices stay linked to shared equipment records rather than becoming loose annotations.

    Current limitation: Not commercially available. Cross-product record sharing is being built and is not live.

  • Full one-line signal-flow authoring

    In development

    Author the signal path on site, so system intent is captured while the room is still in front of you.

    We are developing one-line signal-flow authoring within the field application.

    Current limitation: Not commercially available. Authoring scope and export behaviour are still being established.

What it produces

Two of the capabilities above, drawn. These are illustrations of the output, not screenshots of the software — which is in development.

ILLUSTRATIVE A fictional room. Every dimension, tag and cable identifier is invented, and no drawing here was produced by the software.

Reflected ceiling plan

Laid out on the 600 mm tile grid, with cut tiles where the room does not divide evenly, and the HVAC diffusers shown because an AV ceiling has to be coordinated with another trade's kit.

Illustrative reflected ceiling plan of a fictional training room A ceiling grid of 600 millimetre tiles with cut tiles at the east perimeter where the room does not divide evenly. Four ceiling speakers sit on grid, a projector is mounted centrally, two air diffusers are shown for coordination, and an occupancy sensor sits near the entry. Finished ceiling height is 3 048 millimetres. Every dimension is invented. HVAC S-1 S-2 S-3 S-4 PJ-1 OS-1 600 mm grid RCP · TRAINING ROOM 2-114 FCH 3 048 mm AFF · REV r4 FICTIONAL

One-line signal flow

What connects to what, by which port, over which cable. Transport is called out per segment, because HDBaseT is not HDMI and neither is Dante.

Illustrative one-line signal flow for a fictional training room Two signal paths. Video: a laptop and a room PC feed an HDBaseT transmitter, into a matrix switcher, out over HDBaseT to a receiver and then to a display. Audio: a ceiling microphone array feeds a digital signal processor, which feeds an amplifier driving four ceiling speakers. Program audio breaks out of the matrix into the processor over Dante. Every port, cable identifier and device tag is invented. VIDEO AUDIO LAPTOP ROOM PC HDBT-TX-1 MX-1 HDBT-RX-04 D-1 MIC-1 DSP-1 AMP-1 S-1…S-4 HDMI OUT HDMI OUT IN 1–2 / OUT 1 4×4 MATRIX OUT 1 HDMI HDMI 1 CEILING ARRAY OUT 1–2 4CH · 70V CEILING CBL-0118 · CAT6A CBL-0142 · HDBaseT CBL-0143 · HDMI CBL-0201 CBL-0208 · ANALOG CBL-0212 · 70V PROGRAM AUDIO · DANTE Matching connectors do not establish compatibility. Transport, signal type and direction are separate properties.

What it is

AP AI Field is the field product in the AP AI Software family. It is a native Apple application for LiDAR-capable devices, oriented toward iPad, built so that measurement, drawing and AV documentation happen in the room rather than being reconstructed later from photographs and notes.

It is not a free auxiliary scanner attached to another product. It is a professional field application, and it may become available before AV Designer AI Copilot does.

The seven launch capabilities

All seven capabilities listed above are required for version 1.0. None of them is deferrable. Every one is in development, and each carries its current limitation above rather than being presented as finished.

Scope

The name is deliberately broader than the launch positioning. AP AI Field is being built AV-first, and every capability above is an AV capability. The name leaves room for adjacent trades without a second rename, but nothing here claims support for them.

Current status

In development. There is no App Store availability, no release date, no supported device list and no published Bluetooth compatibility matrix.