Add Alarm Input to Area for Current Site

You can add alarm inputs to areas for the current site for management.

The devices need to be added to the HikCentral Professional for area management. Refer to Device and Server Management for details.

Note:

One alarm input can only belong to one area. You cannot add an alarm input to multiple areas.

  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 the current site from the drop-down site list to show its areas.
    Note:

    The icon indicates that the site is the current site.

  4. Optional: Select an area for adding alarm inputs to.
  5. Select the Alarm Input tab.
  6. Click to enter the Add Alarm Input page.
  7. Select the device type.
  8. Select the alarm inputs to add.
    Note:

    For the security control device, you need to select its zones as alarm inputs to add to the area.

  9. Optional: Select the area.
    Note:

    • You can click Add in the Area field to add new areas.

    • If you have not selected area in previous step, selecting area in this step will be required.

  10. Click Add.
  11. Optional: After adding the alarm inputs, you can do one or more of the followings.
    Option Description

    Delete Alarm Input

    Select the alarm input(s) and click Delete.

    Move to Other Area

    Select the alarm input(s) and click . Then select the target area to move the selected alarm inputs to and click Move.

    Add Alarm Input to Map

    Click to enter Map Settings page and drag the alarm input to the map. See Add Hot Spot on Map for details.

    Display Alarm Inputs of Sub Areas

    Check Include Sub-Area to display the alarm inputs of sub areas.

    Filter Alarm Inputs by Device Type

    Select the device type(s) to be displayed in the list from the drop-down list to the left of the search box.

    View Alarm Input Status

    In the Status column, the alarm input's online status, arming status, bypass status, alarm status, fault status, and detector connection status are displayed.

    • Online Status: indicates alarm input online; indicates alarm input offline.

    • Arming Status: indicates alarm input armed; indicates alarm input disarmed.

    • Bypass Status: indicates alarm input bypassed; indicates bypass restored.

    • Fault Status: indicates alarm input exception.

    • Alarm Status: indicates that the alarm input is alarming.

    • Detector Connection Status: indicates alarm input not enrolled or offline; indicates detector online.

    • Battery Status: indicates normal alarm input's battery status; indicates abnormal alarm input's battery status.

    Bypass/Restore Bypass Alarm Input

    When an exception of alarm input occurs, and other alarm inputs can work normally, click to bypass the abnormal alarm input, otherwise, you cannot arm the security control partition which the alarm input belongs to. When a bypassed alarm input works normally, click to restore bypass.

    Search for Alarm Inputs

    Enter the keywords in the Search field to search for alarm inputs.