P | IoT Glossary of Terms

PAN: Acronym for Personal Area Network.
PDR: Abbreviation for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning.
PDU: Short for Power Distribution Unit.
PDoS: Short for Permanent Denial of Service.
PERS: Acronym for Personal Emergency Response System.
PIR: Short for Passive Infrared Sensor.
PLC: Programmable Logic Controllers.
PLF: Short for Precision Livestock Farming.
PPD: Short for Personal Protection Drone.
PPG: Abbreviation for Photoplethysmogram.
PSG: Short for Polysomnogram or Polysomnography.
PUF: Abbreviation for Physical Unclonable Function.
Passive Infrared Sensor: A type of sensor that uses electromagnetic radiation in the low infrared spectrum to detect the movement of objects. …
PdM: Short for Predictive Maintenance.
Pedestrian Dead Reckoning: A method of indoor positioning that uses a last known waypoint, distance and direction of travel to calculate the current location of a moving person. …
Pen Testing: Short for Penetration Testing. …
Penetration Testing: A pentest is a method of evaluating the security of a network or system from internal or external threats. …
Peripheral Device: One of the two types of devices defined by the BLE standard. …
Permanent Denial of Service: The terse name given to the process of remotely and maliciously bricking vulnerable IoT devices.
Personal Area Network: Interconnected devices operating in the range of a single person, typically 10 meters. …
Personal Emergency Response System: A mobile duress panic alarm component of a monitoring system, typically for the residential market. …
Personal Protection Drone: A type of drone, or drone swarm, dedicated to an individual's security. …
Personal Safety Wearables: Another name for the category of devices that allow a user to signal for help in an emergency. …
Pervasive Computing: Another term for ubiquitous computing.
Photoplethysmogram: A optically obtained plethysmogram using an LED that measures the output volume of an organ, such as the heart. …
Physical Internet: An open global logistics system that encapsulates physical items into modular containers (using the PI symbol) that borrow concepts from internet data transfers. …
Physical Unclonable Function: In chip design, a PUF is a chip-unique challenge-response mechanism utilizing variations in the physical microstructure inside integrated circuits from manufacturing processes. …
Physical Web (The): Google's open standard to allow IoT devices to communicate via web addresses. …
Pigging: The industrial process of performing various pipeline maintenance operations, such as cleaning, using a device that is moved through the pipe.
Platform: A major piece of technology or software upon which smaller applications or programs are built. …
Platooning: The process of linking smart vehicles into a train-like convoy, leading to reduced air resistance for vehicles in the platoon and to reduced highway congestion.
PoE: Abbreviation for Power over Ethernet.
PoWiFi: Short for Power over WiFi.
Polysomnogram: A comprehensive record of the biophysiological changes that occur during sleep used as a diagnostic tool in sleep medicine. …
Power Distribution Unit: A physical device with multiple outlets that connects electrical power to recipient devices. …
Power over Ethernet: The capability to deliver enough power to operate a device over an Ethernet connection. …
Power over WiFi: A technology that can convert the signals sent by wireless routers into DC (direct current). …
Preboot execution environment: The ability to manage power over a network connection. …
Precision Livestock Farming: The use of sensors for monitoring and early detection of reproduction events and health disorders in animals. …
Predictive Maintenance: The approach to maintaining machines via ongoing monitoring of their underlying health and applying corrective action as needed. …
Predix: An Industrial Internet PaaS offering by General Electric that includes cloud, secure connected assets, data management and data science components. …
Programmable Logic Controllers: PLC's are specialized embedded computers that monitor and control physical processes in industrial applications. …
Pulse Oximeter: A sensor that measures oxygen saturation in the blood. …
Pxe: Abbreviation for Preboot execution environment.

Glossary: P