Home
User guide
Perform daily operations and monitor your facilities in the Security Center SaaS application.
Tiles
Learn how to monitor the state of your entities and manage their functions from the Tiles task in Security Center SaaS.
Monitoring entities in tiles
Using the Tiles task in Security Center SaaS, you can monitor the state of your entities and manage their functions.

Pre-deployment guide
Review requirements, order, and activate your Security Center SaaS system.
Setup guide
Install and connect your Security Center SaaS application.
User guide
Perform daily operations and monitor your facilities in the Security Center SaaS application.
- Introduction
  Learn about operational tasks in Security Center SaaS.
- Tiles
  Learn how to monitor the state of your entities and manage their functions from the Tiles task in Security Center SaaS.
  - Tiles task process overview
    Monitor and interact with entities using the Tiles task.
  - Monitoring entities in tiles
    Using the Tiles task in Security Center SaaS, you can monitor the state of your entities and manage their functions.
  - Creating a reusable tile layout
    To provide users with quick access to a consistent view of certain entities, you can create reusable tile layouts.
  - Modifying a reusable tile layout
    In the Tiles task, you can modify the properties and tiles of a reusable tile layout, and then overwrite the existing tile layout or save it as a new tile layout.
  - About video timeline navigation
    In Security Center SaaS, you can navigate the video timeline in a variety of ways while performing monitoring tasks, reviewing video, or using the investigation task or intelligent search functions.
  - Navigating to a specific time in playback video
    To view playback video from a specific date and time, you can navigate to a timestamp from the video tile.
  - Controlling PTZ cameras
    To monitor or control your PTZ cameras, use the Monitoring task in Security Center SaaS or in Genetec™ Operation desktop.
- Maps
  Learn how to view and interact with cameras, doors, events, and incidents from the Maps task in Security Center SaaS.
- Investigation
  Use natural language search and filters to investigate and quickly find relevant video footage, objects, or events from the Investigation task in Security Center SaaS.
- Front desk
  Learn how to set your work location, view a schedule of planned and upcoming events, review a list of expected visitors, view visitor check-in or check-out status, check-in walk-in visitors and perform security screening.
- Reports
  Generate customized queries about entities, activities, and events for investigation or maintenance purposes from the Reports task in Security Center SaaS.
- Access control
  Learn how to manage cardholders, cardholder groups, visitors, and access rules from the Access control task in Security Center SaaS.
- Voice and video calling
  Using the voice and video calling feature in Security Center SaaS, you can make, receive, and manage voice and video calls across your system.
- Alarms, hot actions, and critical events
  Learn how to respond to alarms, trigger hot actions, and set a system threat level to help notify your security personnel of a threatening situation.
- Event monitoring
  Learn how to monitor events in Security Center SaaS.
- Working with video files
  Learn how to share video files, manage the shared files, view shared video clips, and control video access permissions in Security Center SaaS.
Genetec ClearID
Set up and use ClearID in Security Center SaaS.
Federation
Set up and use Federation in Security Center SaaS.
Appliances
Install, configure, and use your cloud-managed appliances.
Supported devices
Review the supported devices list.
Supported features
Review the supported features list.
Technical support
Learn how and where to find support to help you solve technical issues.
Glossary

Monitoring entities in tiles

2026-01-19

Using the Tiles task in Security Center SaaS, you can monitor the state of your entities and manage their functions.

What you should know

Your system administrator must apply privacy protection to video. Privacy protection can only be applied at the system level and not for individual cameras or videos.
You can configure the entity state information that is displayed in the tile overlay in Options > Tiles > Tile overlay .

Procedure

From the navigation menu, click the Tiles task.
Click Browse () to find the entity or layout you want to monitor.
Double-click or drag the entity or layout to a tile.

Note:
Only cameras, doors, and federated virtual zones are supported. Selecting an unsupported entity does not populate the tile.
Hover over the tile to display the camera controls.
Right-click a tile to display the entity controls.
To clear entities from the canvas, do one of the following:
- Right-click a tile, and then click Clear ().
- Select a tile, and then press the Backspace key.
- To empty all tiles, press Ctrl+Backspace.