W | IoT Glossary of Terms

WAN: Acronym for Wide Area Network.
WAVE: Acronym for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments.
WICED: Acronym for Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices. …
WSN: Short for Wireless Sensor Network.
Waggle: An open platform for intelligent attentive sensors. …
Wake Word: A word that triggers the interface on a device, typically a smart home's voice assistant, to listen for user commands or queries. …
Watson: IBM Watson IoT Platform extends the power of cognitive computing to the Internet of Things. …
Wearable Technology: Devices worn that generally interact with certain physiological measurements of the wearer. …
Wearables: Technology that can be worn, typically to quantify a physical process (such as heartbeat monitoring) or to augment human capabilities. …
Weave: A communication layer developed by Google enabling IoT devices to talk to one another, the cloud, and smartphones. …
Weightless: A set of open LPWAN wireless technology standards, specifically designed for IoT. …
Weightless-N: A LPWAN star network architecture that operates in the sub-GHz spectrum using ultra narrow band (UNB) technology.
Weightless-P: An ultra high performance, open LPWAN connectivity technology using a narrow band modulation scheme offering a bidirectional communications capability. …
WiFi: Wireless technology that lets a device connect to a network via an access point (AP). …
Wide Area Network: A telecommunications network spread out over a large geographic area. …
Windows 10 IoT Core: A minimal version of the Microsoft OS designed for sensor-laden Internet-connected devices. …
Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments: The IEEE 802.11p standard required to support Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications. …
Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices: Broadcom's technology for bringing together secure Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless connectivity for connected devices.
Wireless Sensor Network: Autonomous sensor nodes that are connected to one, or sometimes several, other sensors to cooperatively pass their data through wireless connections to a main location. …
Wristop: A contraction of wristband and desktop, a wristop computer refers to a wearable that goes on the wrist, such as a smartwatch.
Wu Lian Wang: The Chinese term for the Industrial Internet, or Industrie 4.0, according to HBR.

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