هو عبارة عن قائمة قصيرة تحتوي على المصطلحات التي تتعرض لها عادة وتشير إلى أنظمة أمان/( CCTV). الجزء الأكبر من هذا المسرد يشتمل على التعريفات العملية لهذه المصطلحات. للتعرف على مزيد من المعلومات حول العديد من هذه المصطلحات الواردة في هذا السياق، راجع صفحات الوثيقة بالموقع الإلكتروني الخاص بي على www.compaircctv.com.

A&E: This is an acronym for Architect and Engineer. It refers to a person or a firm. In reference to CCTV, an "A&E" can range from a single individual consultant that provides customers with valuable product and industry information, to a large firm that manages entire construction projects and all the associated systems that are installed in the building. CCTV/security is only a small part of the overall project.

A&E Specifications: "A&E specs" in CCTV are written technical specifications for individual products. Theoretically the A&E (or the customer) writes the specifications to be put out for bid to selected sales organizations. Manufactures typically "help the process" by providing A&E specifications for their products and the A&E can cut and paste the appropriate parts into the official spec. There is no real standard for the format of these documents in the CCTV/security industry so they can vary widely in format from one manufacturer to another. Some manufacturers are writing their specs to adhere to the CSI (Construction Standards Institute) format. See CSI.

Active X Commands: This is a Microsoft program interface to share information between programs. Browser based programs use Active X components for viewing video from DVRs.
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