Alarm zones

Last modified: Tuesday February 11, 2025.

You define alarm zones within Protect by assigning cameras, access points, and sensors to monitor your sites' spaces and entry points.

Each zone represents one physical area and can contain multiple cameras and sensors. A detection by any camera or sensor in a zone triggers one alarm for that zone.

• Determine how many cameras provide adequate coverage and where to position them. See Camera setup.
• Determine the other types of detectors required, such as access control devices, motion detectors, and contact sensors.
• Depending on the sensor, you can add it directly to Protect or add it as an integration. See Alta Protect devices and Third-party integrations.
• Consider the types of detection that trigger alarms for each camera and sensor. Inappropriate detections might cause false alarms. Exclude stationary objects can reduce false alarms by ignoring stationary objects that look like valid detections but do not move, for example, a hanging coat might be detected as a person. See Add triggers to a zone.
• You can configure the response of each zone when an alarm is triggered. See Triggered alarm actions.
• You control who can arm and disarm zones by assigning user roles and system labels. See Manage Protect users.

For more information on configuring a zone, see Alarm zones.