Patent ID: 8666086

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling a sound masking system installed in a physical space and comprising a plurality of physical sound masking components, said apparatus comprising: an electronic rendering representing the physical space comprising a plan drawing of the physical space and said plan drawing including an active graphical element corresponding to each of said physical sound masking components in the sound masking system and each of said active graphical elements having a location on said plan drawing corresponding to a physical location of said physical sound masking component installed in the physical space; a user interface configured for applying one or more inputs to one or more of said graphical elements to control parameters associated with at least some of the physical sound masking components; a controller module configured to be responsive to at least some of said one or more inputs and generate one or more control signals configured to control operation of one or more of the plurality of physical sound masking components installed in the physical space; and an interface configured for passing said one or more control signals to the sound masking system for controlling one or more of said physical sound masking components.