E | IoT Glossary of Terms

ECU: Acronym for Electronic Control Unit.
EDR: Short for Electrodermal Response.
EID: Short for Ephemeral Identifier.
ELD: Short for Electronic Logging Devices.
EMD: Short for Enterprise Mobile Duress.
ESP8266: From the Chinese company Espressif Systems, the ESP8266 places a complete Wi-Fi network component set or "stack" on a single, tiny and relatively inexpensive chip. …
Eddystone: An open beacon message format (Frame) from Google. …
Edge Computing: Also referred to as Mesh Computing, this concept places applications, data and processing at the logical extremes of a network rather than centralizing them. …
Edge Data Center: A regional facility that provides processing and cache functions as close to end users and IoT devices as possible, primarily to reduce latency. …
Edison: Intel's development board, slightly larger than a standard SD-card, targeting the wearable vertical. …
Electrodermal Response: A change in the electrical properties of the skin based on "arousal" factors such as an emotional response. …
Electronic Control Unit: Also known as a node, an Electronic Control Unit is a device such as a sensor or actuator that is connected to other devices via a CAN Bus. …
Electronic Logging Devices: A mandate by the U.S. …
Embedded System: A computer system dedicated to a specific task or tasks, operating within a larger mechanical or electrical system. …
Embrace, Extend and Extinguish: A strategy associated with Microsoft to defeat open standards with proprietary extensions. …
Enernet: The name given to energy information and delivery networks that are dynamic, distributed, rendundant, and multi-participant. …
Enterprise Mobile Duress: Systems designed to detect personnel emergencies within large facilities such as hospitals or campuses, where determining the physical locaton of persons in distress is a critical issue. …
Ephemeral Identifier: A security feature of Google's Eddystone beacon protocol, EID's are beacon IDs that change frequently. …
Establishment: A place of business or residence, including its furnishings and people.

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