A security system that creates a display using a set of steps including a user input of a security system having a secured area receiving a respective name from the user for each of a plurality of security sensors, a processor matching each of the respective names to one of a plurality of respective names of sensor locations within a Building Information Model (BIM) of the secured area, the user input receiving from the user a specific designation of a corresponding location of each of the plurality of security sensors within a geographic coordinate system of the BIM, a processor of the security system correlating each of the respective names with the corresponding location of the security sensor within the BIM and a processor of the security system mapping each of the plurality of security sensors to a location within the BIM model based upon the name of the device.