Cameras and connections
- CCTV
- Closed-circuit television: cameras that send video to a private set of screens and recorders.
- IP camera
- A camera that sends its video over a computer network.
- NVR
- Network video recorder: a device that records video from IP cameras over a network.
- DVR
- Digital video recorder: a device that records video from analogue cameras over cable.
- RTSP
- Real Time Streaming Protocol: a common way for cameras and recorders to share a live video stream.
- RTMP
- Real-Time Messaging Protocol: another way of sending live video over a network.
AI video analytics
- AI video analytics
- Software that reads video and recognises people, vehicles, objects and events in it.
- Computer vision
- The field of AI that teaches computers to understand images and video.
- Detection zone
- An area drawn on a camera view where a rule applies.
- Edge processing
- Processing video on a device close to the cameras, rather than in a distant data centre.
- On-premises
- Software that runs on hardware at your own site.
- Hybrid deployment
- A setup that processes video partly at the site and partly in the cloud.
Safety
- PPE
- Personal protective equipment, such as helmets, high-visibility vests, gloves and masks.
- PPE compliance
- Whether people wear the protective equipment an area requires.
- Near-miss
- An event that could have caused harm but did not.
- Restricted zone
- An area only authorised people may enter.
- EHS
- Environment, health and safety: the team and work that keep people and the site safe.
Operations
- OEE
- Overall equipment effectiveness: availability multiplied by performance multiplied by quality.
- Availability
- The share of planned production time a line was running.
- Performance
- How close a line ran to its ideal speed while running.
- Quality
- In OEE, the share of output that was good.
- Camera-based OEE
- Measuring a line's availability and performance from video instead of machine signals, which suits manual and assembly lines. Quality comes from your own records.
- Cycle time
- The time taken to finish one unit or one round of work.
- Idle time
- Time when a person or machine is available but not working.