Glossary

Terms used across the HVC platform.

A–C

Admin Console — the platform-wide operations app (hvc-admin-web + hvc-admin-api) used by Hippo staff; distinct from the tenant-level admin inside hvc-web.
Chat group — a messaging group built around contacts or a meeting/event.
Chair — a call participant with host privileges (Pexip term).

D–E

Environment — a deployment tier (dev, test, prod). Tenants and many admin resources are scoped per environment.
Event — a scheduled consultation with participants, date/time, attachments, and a meeting (video call).

G–L

Headset (XR) — the RealWear/DigiLens wearable client (hvc-xr).
Ledger — the chronological list of past events and their logs/attachments.
Lessons learnt — platform docs capturing experience from building HVC.

M

Meeting — the active video session for an event (runs on Pexip).
Metabase — embedded analytics/dashboards (admin console + web).
Misc — a docs section grouping cross-cutting pages (Design Decisions, Lessons, Deprecated, Data Model).

O–P

OME / OvenMediaEngine — the recording engine that replaced Wowza.
Outbox — emailOutboxEntries, queued emails processed by hvc-services.
Peripheral — a device used during calls (e.g. USB stethoscope, camera); types and devices are managed per environment.
Pexip / VMR — video conferencing platform; a Virtual Meeting Room is the per-event conference created/assigned by hvc-api.

R

Rapid Connect — joining a meeting with a QR code / join code (no login), used by headsets and guests.
Realm — a Keycloak realm; each tenant has its own realm (auth isolation).

S

Secured camera — the headset's secure camera (photos/videos) that feeds the ledger.
Sink — hvc-sinkapi, which "sinks" Pexip telemetry into finalized events.
Summoning — a headset device being invited/added to an event remotely.
Standalone / private server — a tenant-hosted deployment where clients point at the tenant's own server instead of the shared infrastructure.

T–V

Tenant — a customer installation (own Keycloak realm, SQL DB, and subdomain).
VMR — see Pexip / VMR.

[Introduction](/introduction/ — platform overview.
Platform — architecture and tech stack.