Add Area for Remote Site

You can add an area for the remote site to manage the devices in the Central System.

1. In the top left corner of Home page, select > Basic Management > Device.
2. Click Area on the left.
3. In the left panel, select an added remote site from the drop-down site list to show its areas.
   Note:

   The icon indicates that the site is a remote site.

4. Click on the area list panel to open the Add Area panel.
   Figure 1 Add Area for Remote Site
5. Select a parent area to add a sub-area.
6. Set the adding mode for adding the area.

   Import Area with New Cameras

   If there are some cameras newly added to the areas on a remote site, you can import the areas as well as those newly added cameras. The areas with newly added cameras will be displayed and you can select the areas to add.

   Add

   Add a new area to the parent area.

7. Optional: Select a Streaming Server for the area to get the video stream of the cameras belonging to this area via the server.
8. Optional: If you select a Streaming Server for the area, check Wall Display via Streaming Server if you want to display the area's resources on the smart wall via this Streaming Server.
9. Optional: Click Expand to expand and set the additional area information as needed.
   Note:

   For details about customizing the additional area information, refer to Customize Additional Information.

10. Click Add.
11. Optional: After adding the area, you can do one or more of the following:

    Option	Description
    Edit Area	Hover the cursor on a specific area and click > Edit to edit the area.
    Delete Area	Select an area and click or hover the cursor on an area and click > Delete to delete the selected area. You can also press Ctrl on your keyboard, select multiple areas, and then click to delete areas in a batch. Note: After deleting the area, the cameras will be removed from the area, as well as the corresponding recording settings and event settings.
    Search Area	Enter a keyword in the search field of the area list panel to search for the area.
    Move Area	Drag the added area to another parent area as the sub area.
    Stick on Top	Hover the cursor on a specific area and click > Stick on Top > to stick the area to the top. Note: The order of the parent area will not be changed.
    Remove from Top	Hover the cursor on a specific area and click > Remove from Top to restore the area order to the default (name order).