Network Design StudioPublic beta

Engineering tools / Connected site planning

Plan your site once

Bring addressing, PoE power, UPS energy and camera storage into one editable, explainable design. Change the number of cameras once and all four results update. Everything runs locally in your browser.

Planning demo, not a live survey. All starting values are editable examples—not a connected device inventory, manufacturer specification, guaranteed UPS runtime or deployment configuration.

Load a complete example or keep your imported/custom plan.

Guided site setup
Enter just the requirements first. Advanced assumptions are optional and always editable.

You may enter a device address, such as 192.168.10.42; the network boundary is computed automatically. This single-network estimate is not a multi-VLAN design.

Include tablets, laptops and wired workstations

Example 802.3af IP cameras; confirm actual wattage later

Example 802.3at PoE+ models

Example IEEE 802.3af devices

Printers, servers, sensors and controllers

Reserve addresses for gateway and switch management

A planning allowance for devices you may add, not reserved DHCP addresses or extra bandwidth.

Connected capacity results
Derived from the same editable scenario. These results update as requirements change.
Derived estimates1 check to review
IPv4: suggested subnet
192.168.10.0/26
Usable addresses
62
Devices included
49
Powered PoE devices
18
PoE PSE demand
174.1 W
PoE watt budget
Within modeled budget
PoE port count
Sufficient in example
Critical AC demand
273.5 W
Illustrative UPS runtime
2.35 h
Required storage
10.37 TB
Estimated camera retention
23.1 days

Minimal fit without growth: 192.168.10.0/26. Growth headroom yields 192.168.10.0/26, leaving 13 assignable addresses above current demand. This is a single-LAN estimate only.

Checks before procurement

  • Entered usable storage is below the target camera retention for these bitrate/duty assumptions.

Continue with your calculated inputs, not another unrelated example. This optional transfer uses only this browser tab (no URL parameters or network requests). A temporary 30-minute site draft restores your entries when you return; the specialist values are independent edits and do not automatically update the site.

VLAN planner

Use separate VLANs and subnets when cameras, phones and staff must be segmented.

Open VLAN tool

Detailed PoE planner

Carry all modeled PoE devices, port types, budget and reserve into the editable detailed tool.

Detailed UPS estimator

Carry the exact derived AC load and editable battery/W/VA assumptions.

Protect storage planner

Carry camera count, bitrate, recording duty, storage and target days.

Important limits

This preview uses the existing IPv4, IEEE PoE, battery energy and camera bitrate calculation engines with the same input model. It assumes one ordinary LAN; it does not generate VLAN gateway configuration, audit actual installed ports, identify switch model limitations, simulate battery discharge curves or verify camera/NVR compatibility.

For multi-network projects, use the VLSM planner. For products beyond the illustrated 802.3af cameras/phones and 802.3at access points, use the per-device PoE planner. Changes to these examples do not configure equipment. Specialist handoff is temporary and one-way; site revision history, vendor-backed BOM and pdfcn technical reports require separate reviewed implementation.