I | IoT Glossary of Terms

I2C: Short for Inter-Integrated Circuit.
ICS: Acronym for Industrial Control System.
ICT: Acronym for Information and Communication Technologies.
IEEE 802.11: The family of specifications developed by the IEEE for wireless LAN (WLAN) communications, first adopted in 1997. …
IEEE 802.11ac: Approved in January 2014, 802.11ac is a wireless standard for high-throughput wireless local area networks (WLANs) on the 5 GHz band. …
IEEE 802.11ah: A wireless standard that utilizes license-exempt, sub-1 GHz bands to provide long range Wi-Fi networks. …
IEEE 802.11n: Builds on previous 802.11 standards to utilize multiple antennas to increase data rates, adding MIMO to the physical layer. …
IEEE 802.11p: Amends wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) to the IEEE 802.11 WiFi standard. …
IFTTT: Short for "If This Then That," the IFTTT service and framework allows for the collection of conditional statements into "applets" that trigger actions. …
IISF: Short for Industrial Internet Security Framework.
IIoT: Short for Industrial Internet of Things.
IMU: Acronym for Inertial Measurement Unit.
IPC: Short for Inter-Process Communication.
IPC Framework: The collection of tools and interfaces allowing communcation between processes. …
IPS: Short for Indoor Positioning System.
IPv6: An internet protocol intended to replace IPv4.
ITS: Abbreviation for Intelligent Transportation System
IVI: Acronym for In-Vehicle Infotainment.
IaaS: Acronym for Infrastructure as a Service.
In-Vehicle Infotainment: Systems integrated into automobiles that deliver both entertainment and information content. …
Indoor Positioning System: A system to locate persons or objects inside buildings, as opposed to GPS which works outdoors. …
Industrial Control System: Computer hardware and software that monitor and control industrial processes that exist in the physical world, where operator-driven supervisory commands can be pushed to remote station devices. …
Industrial Internet Security Framework: Published by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the framework deals with five IIoT characteristics – safety, reliability, resilience, security and privacy – to help define "trustworthiness" in IIoT systems.
Industrial Internet of Things: A subdiscipline of IoT, encompassing IP-enabled systems such as factory-floor monitoring, HVAC, smart lighting and security. …
Industrie 4.0: Invoking a fourth industrial revolution, Industrie 4.0 creates intelligent manufacturing networks where decentralized smart factories can communicate and react to each other autonomously. …
Inertial Measurement Unit: A MEMS module which measures angular velocity and linear acceleration using an accelerometer triad and an angular rate sensor triad. …
Information and Communication Technologies: The ICT Industry provides access to information through telecommunications. …
Infrastructure as a Service: One of the main categories of Cloud computing services, IaaS provides virtualized computing resources online.
Insurance Telematics: Vehicular tracking devices used by automobile insurance companies to alter rates based on driver behavior. …
Intelligent Transportation System: The application of advanced information and communications technology to surface transportation for enhanced safety and mobility while reducing environmental impacts. …
Inter-Integrated Circuit: I2C, pronounced I-squared-C, is a serial bus the provides communication between sensors and microcontrollers such as the Arduino. …
Inter-Process Communication: An operating system term for mechanisms that allow various processes to share data, including message queues, files, sockets and pipes.
Internet of Battle Things: A military IoT term involving devices sensing, communicating, acting, and collaborating with each other and human warfighters.
Internet of Everything: A term being promoted by Cisco as a variation or extension of IoT. …
Internet of Things: A network of physical devices that are connected via the Internet and that can communicate their status, respond to events or even act autonomously. …
Internet of Things, Services and People: An extension if IoT that keeps people as the decision makers, who program and control the production processes and activities performed by Things. …
Internet of Vehicles: The combination of the IoT with the mobile Internet for the purpose of connecting smart vehicles. …
Intranet of Things: A term coined by Airbus' Carlo Nizam, an Intranet of Things connects an organization's assets, but does not make internal Things directly addressible over the public Internet. …
IoBT: Short for Internet of Battle Things.
IoE: Acronym for Internet of Everything.
IoT: Common abbreviation for "Internet of Things." The "o" is typically in lowercase.
IoTSP: Short for Internet of Things, Services and People.
IoV: Short for Internet of Vehicles.
iBeacons: Apple's brand name for their beacon technology.

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