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Overview of Graphics Viewer

Viewing a Coverage Area

Siemens Industry, Inc. Graphics Editor Version 2.1 A6V10380527_en_a_21

Building Technologies 2015-06-23

3.4 Viewing a Coverage Area

Cerberus DMS allows you to manually associate objects to one-another. For example,

you can associate a fire detector (or any other object type) to a video camera or to a

document. Then, whenever the fire detector is selected in the System Browser tree,

the related video camera or document displays in the

Related Items pane. The

coverage area

feature provides a graphical way to achieve the same result.

Cerberus DMS graphics can contain 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. When you move your cursor over

the coverage area, a tooltip displays the coverage area's object reference with the total

number of monitored objects. If you move your cursor over an object in the

coverage

area

, a tooltip displays the objects name or description. The background color of the

coverage area varies depending on how the librarian has configured it to look for your

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 device(s) on the graphic.

The Operation and Extended Operation tabs display the device properties when the

coverage area is visible. The