CPC G06F 3/04817 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04847 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A monitoring station for a security system of a facility, the monitoring station comprising:
an input port for receiving events produced by each of a plurality of components of the security system of the facility, wherein each of the plurality of components is associated with a corresponding geographic region of the facility;
a user interface including a display;
a memory configured to store a plurality of predefined event icons, wherein each of the plurality of predefined event icons corresponds to a different one of a plurality of event types, and each of the plurality of predefined event icons includes a graphical representation that is indicative of the corresponding event type;
a controller operably coupled with the input port, the user interface and the memory, the controller configured to:
receive via the input port a plurality of events produced by one or more of the plurality of components of the security system of the facility, each of the plurality of events produced at a corresponding time;
identify for each of the plurality of events received via the input port a corresponding event type from the plurality of event types;
receive one or more event type filter parameters from a user via the user interface, the one or more event type filter parameters identifying one or more selected event types;
filter the plurality of events received via the input port using the one or more event type filter parameters, resulting in one or more filtered events that each have an event type that is one of the one or more selected event types;
display on the display of the user interface a spatial representation of at least part of the facility; and
for each of the one or more filtered events, display on the spatial representation of the at least in part of the facility the predefined event icon that corresponds to the event type of the respective filtered event, at a location that corresponds to the geographic region of the facility that the component that produced the respective filtered event is located, and at a time that corresponds to the time that the respective filtered event was produced by the corresponding component.
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