glossary¶
- API
- Application programming interface
- CPS
- cyber-physical systems
- CPU
- Central processing unit
- DNS
- The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.
- DLT
- A distributed ledger (also called a shared ledger or distributed ledger technology or DLT) is a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple sites, countries, or institutions.
- FTP
- The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.
- HTTP
- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
- ICO
- An initial coin offering (ICO) or initial currency offering is a type of funding using cryptocurrencies. Mostly the process is done by crowdfunding but private ICO’s are becoming more common.
- LTS
- long term support
- MQTT
- MQTT[2] (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC PRF 20922)[3] publish-subscribe-based messaging protocol.
- RAM
- Random-access memory (RAM /ræm/) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used.
- REST
- Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services.
- SDK
- A software development kit (SDK or devkit) is typically a set of software development tools that allows the creation of applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar development platform.
- SE
- A Secure Element (SE) is a chip of a smartphone, part of the SIM card or other form factors. It provides the necessary security and confidentiality for mobile applications such as mobile commerce, mobile payment, mobile banking or mobile security.
- SMTP
- The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a communication protocol for electronic mail transmission.
- SNMP
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior.
- SSD
- A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. It is also sometimes called a solid-state device or a solid-state disk,[1] although SSDs do not have physical disks.
- SSL
- Transport Layer Security (TLS), and its now-deprecated predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),[1] are cryptographic protocols designed to provide communications security over a computer network.
- TCP
- The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite.
- UDP
- In computer networking, the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core members of the Internet protocol suite.
- YAML/YML
- YAML (“YAML Ain’t Markup Language”) is a human-readable data-serialization language.