Coverage Area

Allows you to display cameras or monitoring devices to which objects, such as fire sensors, ceiling sprinklers, temperature sensors, etc. are associated. For example, you have a graphic of an office space that includes a camera that is monitoring the fire sensors in that room. In this example, the fire sensors monitored by the camera, are in the coverage area of the device.

The coverage area contains the monitored objects. The background color of the coverage area varies depending on the configuration of the project.

When you initially load a graphic, the coverage area of a camera is not visible in the Graphics Viewer. You must toggle the Coverage Area icon from the Graphics Viewer toolbar to view the coverage area of any monitoring devices on the graphic.

In the right panel, the device properties display when the coverage area is visible. Additionally, coverage areas display in the Graphics section under the heading named after the type of the monitoring object. For example, if the monitoring object is a camera, the heading displays Camera.