IP camera
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An Internet Protocol camera (Korean: 인터넷 프로토콜 카메라), or IP camera (Korean: IP 카메라), is a type of digital video camera commonly deployed for surveillance which, unlike analog closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, can send and receive data via a computer network and the Internet. Although most cameras that do this are webcams, the term IP camera or netcam usually applies only to those used for surveillance that can be accessed directly over a network connection.
Some IP cameras require support from a central network video recorder (NVR) to handle recording, video, and alarm management. Others can operate in a decentralized manner without an NVR(en), as the camera can record directly to local or remote storage media. The first centralized IP camera was the Axis Neteye 200, released in 1996 by Axis Communications.