B | IoT Glossary of Terms

BAN: Acronym for Body Area Network.
BIM: Acronym for Building Information Modeling.
BLE: Abbreviation for Bluetooth Low Energy.
BMS: Short for Building Management System.
BYOD: Acronym for Bring Your Own Device.
Beacons: Low-cost devices that broadcast a unique identifier using BLE. …
Big Data: Data sets that are so large that they cannot be utilized with traditional database tools. …
Blockchain: A distributed database, based on a ledger of transactions, that powers cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. …
Bluetooth LE: Shorthand for Bluetooth Low Energy.
Bluetooth Low Energy: A version of the wireless communications standard that optimizes battery life. …
Bluetooth Mesh: The extension of BLE technology into a mesh topology, extending the range of Bluetooth by having network traffic hop from node to node. …
Body Area Network: A wireless network of wearable computing devices and physiological sensors, which may even be embedded inside the body. …
Botnet: A collection of devices infected with malware that can be coordinated to perform tasks in massive volumes. …
Brick: Slang term for accidentally rendering a device inoperable by changing its configuration or shorting one of its circuits. …
BrickerBot: A variation of IoT malware that "bricks" the affected device, rendering it useless. …
Brillo: An underlying operating system for the IoT developed by Google, supporting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Android-based things. …
Bring Your Own Device: Enterprise term recognizing that people are bringing their own Wi-Fi enabled devices into corporate networks.
Building Information Modeling: The creation and management of a digital representation of the functions and structures for a facility. …
Building Management System: Consisting of both software and hardware, a BMS monitors and control's a building's electrical and mechanical equipment such as HVAC, illumination and access control. …
BusyBox: Frequently used in embedded devices, BusyBox is a single-file collection of tiny versions of common UNIX utilities. …

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