Tools to think
a project through.
Calculators, configurators and reference checkers for the questions that come up early in a serious project. Conservative, well-documented, useful before any conversation begins.
- Calculator
- 8
- Configurator
- 4
- Interactive
- 5
- Reference
- 4
Built at the engineering desk
Each tool was first built for our own desk — sized to NBC, IS code and the kind of conservative assumption a defensible BOQ rests on. We made them public because the early-stage questions an architect or owner needs answered should not require an enquiry form first.
Reply window
2 working days
Cost to use
Free, no signup
02 / How to use them
For the
first conversation.
The CCTV calculator runs on the same retention and bitrate logic our surveillance designers use; the BMS payback model uses the indicative tariffs and load profiles we see across eastern-Indian commercial buildings; the cinema sizer reflects the room geometries and Atmos formats we have actually delivered.
Use them to scope a brief, sense-check a competing quote, or arrive at a first conversation with the right order-of-magnitude in your head. Each tool documents the assumptions underneath the number — and where reality is messier than a calculator can capture, the page will tell you so.
03 / The toolkit
21 tools
we use ourselves.
Free · no signup · documented assumptions
Project Brief Wizard
Six structured questions, a written response within two working days. The fastest path to engaging the practice on a real project.
Energy & BMS ROI Calculator
Adjust building variables and see indicative payback for a BMS-driven energy upgrade plus daylight-harvesting LED retrofit. Conservative; defensible in a first conversation.
BESS Sizer
Peak-demand and tariff curve in, indicative LFP battery size, annual savings and payback period out. Vertiv, Delta and Fuji-class deployments.
CCTV Coverage Calculator
Building dimensions and risk profile in, recommended camera count, retention storage and bandwidth out. Sized to NBC and IS-grade specifications.
NBC Compliance Checker
Building height, type and occupancy in — list of mandatory life-safety and ELV systems out, citing NBC 2016 and the relevant IS codes.
Network & PoE Calculator
Sized to year-three load — switches, Wi-Fi 7 access points, PoE budget, Cat6A run count, project cost. Cisco / HPE Aruba / Juniper-class enterprise gear.
RT60 Acoustic Calculator
Room dimensions and finish materials in, indicative reverberation time and recommended absorber area out. Sabine equation; defensible for early-stage acoustic planning.
Cinema Sizer
Room dimensions in, recommended screen size, seat layout, Atmos format and budget out. Reference / Premium / Media-room tiers.
AMC Plan Selector
Four quiz questions about your operation. We recommend Bronze, Silver, Gold or Mission-Critical AMC tier with response targets and PM frequency.
Project Phase Visualiser
Pick a project profile and see the realistic week-by-week Gantt across our seven delivery stages — brief through handover.
Brand Comparison Tool
Six-category catalogue — automation, audio, cinema, networking, surveillance, BMS. Pick a discipline, pick up to four brands, compare on the fields that matter. Honest about strengths, gaps and where each is decisively right.
Lighting Scenes Interactive
Tap a scene — Welcome, Dinner, Film, Rest, Away, Goodnight — and watch every circuit, shade, AC zone and AV source shift at once across a reference 4 BHK plan. KNX + Rako + DALI.
Cinema Scenes Interactive
Tap a scene — Film, Sport, Concert, Music, Reference, Standby — and watch projector source, screen aspect, processor preset, room lighting and seating shift in concert across a reference 10-seat home cinema. Trinnov + JBL Synthesis.
ELV / Life-Safety Building Map
Interactive cross-section of a building. Toggle between CCTV, access control, fire, PA, IP-PBX, server room and BMS — see device locations and where each cabling backbone lands.
Rack & Architecture Explorer
A reference AV cinema rack, IT/network rack and BMS panel. Hover any unit and we tell you what it does and why it's sized that way. The boring rack that runs the room.
Cost Planning Bands
We don't publish per-square-foot rates. We do publish what changes between basic, premium and enterprise across design, brand stack, redundancy and documentation — for five disciplines.
Maintenance Health Check
Tick the symptoms — Wi-Fi dead zones, false fire alarms, camera downtime — and we suggest the right intervention: tune-up, structured audit or full AMC.
NBC Fire-Safety by State
State, building height and occupancy in — list of sprinkler, addressable FA, voice-evac PA, wet-riser and Fire-NOC triggers out, with gazette citations. Eight Indian states resolved against the NBC 2016 baseline.
PoE Budget Calculator
PoE-powered device counts in — total watts, switch tier (PoE+ / PoE++ Type 3 / Type 4), and indicative SKU band out. 30% headroom built in.
AV-over-IP vs HDBaseT
Six questions about endpoints, distance, growth, network, control and budget — and a scored recommendation between AV-over-IP and HDBaseT, with platform candidates.
DG → Solar+BESS Crossover
Diesel price, DG capacity and monthly run-hours in — the kWp solar + kWh LFP BESS that breaks even against running the genset out, plus capex, payback years and CO₂ avoided.
04 / Or skip ahead
Talk to a project lead
instead.
Tools answer the early questions. The brief itself answers the harder ones. Send the drawings and we will write back within two working days.