# Sites basics

## **Sites basics**

Accessia uses real world concepts to represent your building and how hardware is placed

In Accessia;

* A **site** represents a single physical location or address - a headquarters or regional office, for example.
* A site is made up of one or more **floors**
* **Floors** are constructed by uploading a floor plan image and then placing **rooms** on it. For example, meeting rooms, server rooms, and kitchens
* To connect rooms together on the floor plan, place **doors** between them, just as they are in reality
* Add hardware such as cameras, beacons, and kiosks inside rooms or by doors on the floor plan
* Rooms can be grouped together into optional **zones** when they share the same access rules, for example, rooms that only engineering teams have access to can be grouped into an engineering zone

In the example below,

* Doors are connecting rooms
* Hubs are in Server Room A
* Both Server Rooms are in a secure zone, highlighted in pink, and sharing the same access rules
* The Kitchen and Reception are in a common areas zone, highlighted in green, and also sharing the same access rules

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