How to work with maps in Security Center

To enhance your situational awareness and system security, you can use maps in Security Center to view and navigate your facilities in real time, and manage your cameras, doors, and other entities.

To use maps in Security Center, you must have Plan Manager enabled in your license. To work with your maps in Security Desk, you can use either the Maps task, which is dedicated to working with maps, or the generic Monitoring task.

With maps, you can do the following:

Pan and zoom
Navigate through different maps
Span a single map across multiple monitors
Manage your Security Center entities, such as cameras, doors, zones, and so on
Monitor and respond to alarms and events in real-time
Add local and federated entities
Show and hide information about map objects
View information related to map objects in a text bubble
Find entities on maps and see what other entities are nearby
Mark points of interest, such as fire exits, first aid kits, and so on
Monitor and control cameras, doors, intrusion detection areas, and zones
Monitor moving objects, such as patrol vehicles
View license plate reads and hits from fixed LPR cameras
Monitor the state of input pins (active, inactive)
Control the behavior of output relays
Run macros

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