Cmos & Cctv

[briteney]

I've followed the links on the site and I've seen reference to CMOS surveillance systems and they look like the sort of thing I'm looking for.

What I don;t get is why they're called CMOS rather than CCTV systems.

Is there a distinction, is one the subset of another, is it the result of arbitrary naming?

[ADK]

CMOS is a common chipset used in many security cameras, another is CCD. So a CMOS surveillance system would be one made of of cameras that use CMOS chips.