Maps in Security Center enhance situational awareness and system security by enabling users to view and navigate your facilities in real time. They also facilitate the management of cameras, doors, and other entities.
To use maps in Security Center, your license must include the Plan Manager options. To work with your maps in Security Desk, you can use either the Maps task, which is dedicated to working with maps, the generic Monitoring task, or the Dashboards task.
With maps, you can do the following:
- Pan, zoom, and navigate through different maps.
- Span a single map across multiple monitors.
- Control the level of information you wish to see on a map.
- Monitor and respond to alarms and events in real time.
- Monitor the real-time status of equipment such as cameras, doors, and zones.
- Monitor moving objects, such as patrol vehicles and Genetec Mobile users.
- Directly control equipment from the map, such as panning cameras or unlocking doors.
- Locate entities on maps and view nearby entities.
How map search works
When you search a map for objects, addresses, or coordinates, keep the following in mind:
- Searches in Security Desk list map objects and display them on any maps they are part of when selected.
- Coordinates and addresses can be used as search terms only on geographic and georeferenced maps.
- Address searches must include the full street name with its suffix, or you can search by ZIP or postal code.