Terminal, monitoring system having said terminal and method for initializing the terminal

The monitoring of complex or spacious buildings or spaces requires a multiplicity of monitoring devices, for example monitoring cameras, in order to be able to extensively cover such monitoring areas. For this purpose, the invention proposes a terminal (7) having at least one functional device, wherein the functional device is in the form of a sensor and/or actuator device, having a control device (10), wherein the control device (10) is in the form of a digital data processing device, and having at least one network interface (9), wherein the network interface (9) is designed to couple the control device (10) to a network (2), with the result that data can be transmitted from the functional device to the network (2) and/or data can be transmitted from the network (2) to the functional device. The terminal (7) has a client address from a first network (2) as the network, and the terminal (7) has a storage device (11) which stores a server address from a different network (4). The control device (10) is designed to send a message to the server address via the network interface (9) upon initialization of the terminal (7).