Telepathy - Adding Sensor Icons

Telepathy - Adding Sensor Icons

The sensor icons are the dynamic images that will represent your doors and other security access points, or inputs/outputs. They are dragged onto your floor map diagrams to represent their physical locations within your facility. Sensor icons are available from the Icon Library, which is located in the Map Editor Section. You can also add your own custom icons to the icon library.

 

The following steps explain how to add sensor icons to your floor plan images (to indicate the location of the doors, controllers, inputs or outputs on your system.

  1. Select one of your floor plan images.

    Select floor plan

  2. The floor plan will display on the right.
  3. From the library of icons, locate one of the door icons.

    Door Icon

  4. Drag the icon into position on the floor map.

    Icon onto Map

  5. Drag onto the map, more door icons (for all the other doors that will be monitored in the Telepathy client).

    More Doors

  6. Once icons have been dragged onto the floor map, and positioned, they can also be easily re-sized using the image handles.

    Image Handles

  7. When all sensor icons are in position, click the Save Page icon.

    Save Page

  8. Then click Save Diagram, followed by Reload Diagrams

    Save Diagram     Reload Pages

  9. Repeat the above steps (1-8) to add sensor icons to any additional floor plan images.

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