IP security camera

IP security camera is a Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras that utilize Internet Protocol to transmit image data and control signals over a Fast Ethernet link. As such, IP security camera is also commonly referred to as network camera. IP security camera is primarily used for surveillance in the same manner as analog closed-circuit television. A number of IP security cameras are normally deployed together with a digital video recorder (DVR) or a network video recorder (NVR) to form a video surveillance system.
The terms IP security camera and network camera are most commonly used to refer to surveillance cameras with a Fast Ethernet interface. In this context, the term IP security camera does not include GigE vision camera, which is a machine vision camera with a Gigabit Ethernet interface.

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