An Area object allows grouping a set of Alarm Sources, as well as other Alarm Areas. This facilitates the management, operation, and monitoring of a set of related Alarm Sources, allowing, for example:

•Filtering a set of visible alarms in a summary

•Enabling or disabling a set of Alarm Sources

•Acknowledging a set of Alarm Sources

•Checking the total number of active or unacknowledged alarms of a set of Alarms Sources

If needed, new Areas can be inserted inside other Areas.