M | IoT Glossary of Terms

M2M: Abbreviation for Machine to Machine and Mesh to Mesh.
M2P: Abbreviation for Machine to Person.
MCU: Short for MicroController Unit.
MEMS: Acronym for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems.
MGD: Short for Machine Generated Data.
MIMO: Acronym for multiple-input and multiple-output.
MIOTY: A low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network communications solution using a license-free sub-gigahertz spectrum. …
MNO: Abbreviation for Mobile Network Operator.
MQTT: Short for Message Queue Telemetry Transport.
Machine Generated Data: Digital data that is created without human intervention by computer processes or sensors. …
Machine to Machine: Direct communication between two Things. …
Machine to Person: Describes the analytics for Big Data in a human readable form (e.g. …
MapReduce: A parallel processing model for handling extremely large data sets. …
Mechatronics: A combination of the words "mechanical" and "electronics," mechatronics brings together electrical engineering, control engineering, computer engineering, and mechanical engineering disciplines. …
Mesh Networking: An ad-hoc network infrastructure where the nodes communicate directly with each other without the need to pass through a central structure such as an ISP. …
Mesh to Mesh: A connection protocol where one mesh network connects to another, forming a "mesh of meshes." Can also be spelled Mesh2Mesh, and uses the same M2M abbreviation as Machine to Machine, which has largely been replaced as a term by IoT.
Message Queue Telemetry Transport: An open, lightweight M2M communications protocol for the transfer of telemetry messages.
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems: Miniaturized mechanical and electro-mechanical elements, typically used for measurements, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes. …
MicroController Unit: A full computer on a single chip. …
MinnowBoard: Open source Intel development boards targeting the maker community. …
Mirai: A self-propagating malware that has been used to target IoT devices rather than PC's, enabling massive DDoS attacks when Mirai-infected devices are deployed in botnets. …
Mobile Network Operator: Companies that operate traditional mobile networks.
Mobile Personal Emergency Response System: A wearable device, such as a pendant, that is connected to a cellular network enabling the user to summon help indoors or outdoors. …
Mote: Short for Remote. …
Multi-GNSS: Satelite navigation receivers that use simultaneous positioning from two or more systems. …
Multiple DoF Sensing: A MEMS concept referring to the detection of the combined input along multiple axes using multiple sensing types, such as acceleration and rotation. …
Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output: A radio technology utilizing multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver to improve communication performance. …
mHealth: An abbreviation for Mobile Health, mHealth is the practice of medicine using mobile devices, particularly physiological sensors. …
mPERS: Short for Mobile Personal Emergency Response System.

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