As the display terminal of the closed-circuit monitoring system, the monitor is an indispensable part of the monitoring system in addition to the camera. For a long time, monitors have been mainly used in finance, jewelry stores, hospitals, subways, railway stations, airports, exhibition halls, commercial office buildings, leisure and entertainment places, and are responsible for security work. Due to the development of technology, the cost of the whole CCTV system has been well adjusted. More and more small enterprises are also able to bear the price, and begin to establish their own monitoring systems to meet security or other monitoring needs.

As an important application product, monitors of various types emerge in an endless stream, and monitors with advanced technologies such as liquid crystal, plasma, light emitting diode, etc. have been widely used.