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T-Roof Description || Program Features and Fields || Sample Output || Professional Edition

Many Options and Choices

T-Roof produces four sets of graphs, with a wide range of options. The T-Roof analysis gives RF safety results in these four different categories:

1. Percent of "controlled" MPE limits.
2. MPE time (per 6 minute interval) for controlled exposure.
3. Percent of "uncontrolled" MPE limits.
4. MPE time (per 30 minute interval) for uncontrolled exposure.

Detailed Colors and Gradients - This option allows you to show the percent of compliance limits in a range of many colors changing gradually from yellow to black. Darker regions mean higher percentages (or less safe areas). With this feature, you can see easily how each antenna contributes to the overall RF effects of an area and how rapidly the radiation is changing. This mode also gives a better view of how the radiation pattern is being modeled for each antenna. The example to the right shows how this chart type is applied to Percent of MPE Controlled Limits chart, which is #1 above.
Simple Colors - This option reduces the set of colors used to a few, easy to distinguish colors, similar to what is used on weather maps. Again, darker regions indicate more dangerous areas. This chart type is more useful in distinguishing the specific areas that may be in or out of compliance (or in varying degrees). The example to the right shows how this chart type is applied to the MPE Times for Uncontrolled Exposure chart, which is #4 above.
Contour Map - This chart type gives a color-coded outline of the borders of different radiation regions, similar to a contour map. This chart shows regions of varying degrees of safety (similar to the Simple Color map), allowing you to very easily determine which specific areas are in or out of compliance, and to what degree. This chart type is most suitable for printing or for overlaying with other engineering schematics, such as a roof blueprint. The example to the right shows how this chart type is applied to Percent of MPE Controlled Limits chart, which is #1 above.

More Power with T-Roof Pro

Upgrading to T-Roof Professional Edition gives you the added ability to perform RF analyses along the length of a tower, similar to T-Safe. With the T-Roof Pro upgrade, you can produce three more types of charts, with the same color and detail options as in roof analyses. You also gain additional charting options, including the ability to create any roof or tower analysis graph in grayscale for easier printing.

Tower Power Density Limits - This graph shows percent of "controlled" MPE limits along the length of the tower. It is most suitable for identifying the regions of the tower that could pose the greatest risk to tower climbers and other technicians. Like other tower charts with T-Roof Pro, you have the option to control the size of the analysis by changing both the analysis spacing and the range of heights analyzed.
Tower MPE Time limits - This graph shows the MPE time (per 6 minute interval) for controlled exposure along the length of the tower. This corresponds to the tower power density limits diagram (shown above).
Climber's Diagram - This is the percent of "controlled" MPE limits, in this case grouped by regions of intensity and color-coded for easy reading by tower climbers. This corresponds to the tower power density limits diagram (shown above).

Extensibility

The data from T-Roof can be stored in the T-Roof database itself or exported to tab-delimited text files. The text files are suitable for regular text viewing, but are also preformatted for easy use in a spreadsheet. Use your favorite spreadsheet software, such as Microsoft Excel, to import the data with ease, and then perform further analyses to your liking. The example to the right shows one example of how this data can be used for further engineering studies.