How to keep track of things in your video monitoring

CCD sensor
Abbreviation of "Charge-Coupled Device sensor" A sensor that converts light into electric charge
CCTV
Abbreviation of "Closed-Circuit Television" A television system in which video signals are sent only to monitors in a specific area (e.g. a building) Also called "video surveillance"
CMOS sensor
Abbreviation of "Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor sensor" A sensor designed to save power while digitizing image information
Cross bar
A device that switches one specific camera in a group of cameras through to the viewing monitor
Ethernet
Most popular standard for communications within one network
Hub
A common connection point of lines in a network
IP
Abbreviation of "Internet Protocol" A set of rules used for data transmission via the Internet
IP address
An IP address is a unique number that identifies a user on the Internet
JPEG/MPEG
Abbreviation of "Joint Photographic Expert Group" or "Motion Pictures Expert Group" A process used to compress and store image and video data
Mbps
Abbreviation of "Megabits per second" A unit of measurement for the speed at which data is transported via a communications connection
Megapixels
Image resolution with a million and more pixels
MxPEG
A process patented by MOBOTIX to compress and store image and video data with low network load and high image quality
Network
Any number of computers that are connected with one another via different lines and share data and devices, such as printers
NTBA
Abbreviation of "Network Termination of Basic Access". An adapter on ISDN lines between the German Telekom network and the ISDN-S0 bus
Router
A device that uses an ISDN connection to connect two networks at different locations
Switch
A device that works like a telephone exchange in a network to send data packets to the corresponding destination addresses
Web browser
A program that retrieves and is able to display data from another computer HTML is the data language used to transmit data
Web server
The counterpart to a web browser A program that takes inquiries from different computers, checks to see if the data requested is available and, if so, then “serves” it up, i.e. sends it back
WLAN
Abbreviation of "Wireless Local Area Network"