Specifications

262 Module 133: Basic Intruder Detection | Programming Areas
Programming Areas
Naming Conventions
Before you start programming the system, it's important that you decide on the naming conventions that will be
used. This step is too commonly forgotten, resulting in systems that are inconsistent and therefore hard to
understand and maintain.
 Consider that the first 16 characters are what a user sees from a keypad, so these characters should be
as descriptive as possible to ensure items are easily identifiable.
 Additional information can help us later when we want to search for similar devices (for example all PIRs or
all doors, etc) to quickly configure common properties.
Based on this, we are going to adopt the following naming convention for our ACME site:
Office Entry Dr (Door) TXS CP1:1
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1. The first 16 characters will describe the item - Office Area DR, Managers Door, etc. We'll add spaces where
necessary before adding the additional information so the keypad only shows our description
2. We'll then include the connected device type in brackets - such as (PIR) and (REX) etc - so we can find and
grab the same type of devices to quickly configure the common properties
3. We'll follow this with TXS as a site reference so we can easily identify items belonging to the Texas office
4. Finally, we'll use the hardware address to identify where the device physically connects to the Protege
system
Programming the Office Area
1. Navigate to Programming | Areas and click Add
2. Using our naming convention, we'll name the Area Office TXS
We've added 10 spaces to ensure our description uses the full 16 characters and so the site identifier does
not appear at a keypad. And because an Area is not physically connected, there is no device type or
hardware address to include.