
Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms
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System User Guide
Appendix A Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms
3G is a short for 3
rd
Generation.
This is a term used to represent the 3
rd
generation of mobile telecommunications technology.
Also called Tri-Band 3G. This is a set of standards used for mobile devices and mobile
telecommunication services and networks that comply with the International Mobile
Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) specifications issued and maintained by the
International Telecommunication Union.
Advanced Encryption Standard.
A specification for the encryption of electronic data in a symmetric-key encryption format
based on a design principle known as a substitution-permutation network, and is fast in both
software and hardware.
Application Programming Interface.
A specification of how some software components should interact with each other.
In practice in most of the cases an API is a library that usually includes specification for
routines, data structures, object classes, and variables.
The name of a gateway between a GPRS (or 3G, etc.) mobile network and another computer
network, frequently the public Internet.
Apple Push Notification Service.
A service created by Apple Inc.
It uses push technology through a constantly open IP connection to forward notifications
from the servers of third party applications to the Apple devices; such notifications may
include badges, sounds or custom text alerts.
ASP.NET Web-services’ Source file for web application framework.
Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages.
Linking together two nodes (units) so that one of them will send information to the other
automatically when a value or level changes.
The sending node is the source node and the node receiving the information is the target
node.
Android Cloud to Device Messaging.
C2DM, which is now deprecated (GCM replaces the beta version of Android C2DM), is a push
notification service that helps developers send data from servers to their applications on
Android devices and launched together with Android 2.2 by Google.
A We.R
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system Central Control Unit.
Also referred to as Control Panel (CP).
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