📄️ Capital Expenditure (CapEx)
The upfront costs associated with acquiring, building, or upgrading physical assets, such as IoT devices, infrastructure, and equipment.
📄️ Cloud Models
Various deployment models for cloud computing services, including public, private, and hybrid clouds, which cater to different needs and requirements of IoT systems.
📄️ Cloud Provider
A company that offers cloud computing services, such as storage, processing, and analytics, to IoT systems and other customers over the Internet.
📄️ Consumption-based Model
A pricing model for cloud services where users pay only for the resources they consume, providing cost-effective and scalable solutions for IoT deployments.
📄️ Device Identity
A unique identifier assigned to an IoT device, often in the form of a certificate or token, which is used for authentication and access control within an IoT platform.
📄️ Device Management
The process of monitoring, configuring, updating, and maintaining IoT devices throughout their lifecycle.
📄️ Device Provisioning
The process of registering, authenticating, and configuring IoT devices to communicate with an IoT platform, enabling secure and efficient onboarding.
📄️ Device Shadow
A cloud-based representation of an IoT device's current state, which can be used to synchronize the device's state with cloud services and applications.
📄️ Device Lifecycle Management
The process of managing IoT devices from their initial deployment to decommissioning, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, updating, and maintenance.
📄️ Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)
A software architecture pattern that promotes the production, detection, and processing of events, enabling real-time responses and dynamic adaptation in IoT systems.
📄️ Event Grid
A cloud-based service that enables event-driven architectures, allowing applications and services to subscribe to and react to events generated by IoT devices, other applications, or cloud services.
📄️ Gateway
A network device that connects IoT devices and systems to different networks or the internet, enabling data exchange, communication, and remote management.
📄️ Geo-redundant Storage (GRS)
A storage option that automatically replicates data across multiple geographically distant data centers, providing high availability and durability for IoT systems.
📄️ High Availability (HA)
A design approach that ensures IoT systems and services remain operational and accessible with minimal downtime, even in the event of failures or disruptions.
📄️ Hybrid Cloud
A computing environment that combines public and private cloud resources, allowing IoT systems to leverage the best of both worlds for scalability, cost-efficiency, and control.
📄️ Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
A cloud computing service that provides virtualized computing resources over the internet, allowing IoT systems to access and scale infrastructure on-demand.
📄️ Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
A software application that provides a comprehensive set of tools for developing, testing, and debugging IoT applications and systems.
📄️ Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
The application of IoT technologies to industrial sectors, such as manufacturing, transportation, and energy, enabling improved efficiency, productivity, and performance.
📄️ IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
A standardized framework for delivering multimedia services, such as voice, video, and messaging, over IP networks, which can be applied to IoT devices for communication and collaboration.
📄️ Interoperability
The ability of different devices, systems, or software to work together and exchange information effectively.
📄️ Internet of Things (IoT)
A network of interconnected physical devices, embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies, that collect and exchange data with other devices and systems.
📄️ IT Infrastructure
The physical and virtual components, such as hardware, software, and networking equipment, that support the operation and management of IoT systems.
📄️ Jitter
The variation in the delay of data packets transmitted over a network, which can impact the performance and reliability of real-time IoT applications, such as voice or video streaming.
📄️ Locally Redundant Storagen (LRS)
A storage option that replicates data within a single data center, providing data durability and availability for IoT systems within a specific geographic region.
📄️ Managed Service Account
An account type used to manage and automate the operation of IoT systems, applications, and services, ensuring security, compliance, and performance.
📄️ Multi-cloud
An approach that leverages multiple cloud service providers to deploy IoT systems, applications, and services, optimizing cost, performance, and reliability.
📄️ Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
The ongoing costs associated with operating and maintaining IoT systems, services, and infrastructure, such as energy consumption, maintenance, and support.
📄️ Operating Systems (OS)
The system software that manages hardware and software resources, providing a consistent interface and environment for running IoT applications and services.
📄️ Platform as a Service (PaaS)
A cloud computing model in which an IoT service provider offers a platform that enables users to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure.
📄️ PowerShell
A scripting language and command-line interface developed by Microsoft, often used for managing and automating tasks in IoT systems running on Windows-based platforms.
📄️ Private Cloud
A cloud computing model in which resources, such as IoT infrastructure, platforms, and services, are provided exclusively to a single organization and hosted either on-premises or off-premises by a third-party provider.
📄️ Public Cloud
A cloud computing model in which resources, such as IoT infrastructure, platforms, and services, are provided over the internet by third-party providers and shared among multiple users.
📄️ Quality of Service (QoS)
A measure of the performance and reliability of a network or service, often used in IoT applications to ensure that critical data is prioritized and transmitted with minimal latency and packet loss.
📄️ Read-access Geo-redundant Storage (RA-GRS)
A storage option that replicates data across multiple geographically dispersed regions, providing high availability and read access to the data in the event of a regional failure or outage.
📄️ Read-access Geo-zone-redundant Storage (RA-GZRS)
A storage option that combines both geo-redundancy and zone-redundancy, providing high availability and read access to data across multiple regions and availability zones.
📄️ Reliability
The ability of an IoT system, device, or service to perform its intended function consistently and accurately over time, ensuring the quality and stability of operations.
📄️ Robust
The ability of an IoT system, device, or service to withstand and recover from failures, errors, or adverse conditions, ensuring continuity and resilience.
📄️ Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
A metric that defines the maximum acceptable amount of data loss in an IoT system, representing the time between the last backup and a potential failure or disaster.
📄️ Scalability
The ability of an IoT system, device, or service to handle increased workload or accommodate growth without compromising performance or reliability.
📄️ Scale Sets
A feature of cloud platforms that enables the automatic scaling of IoT resources, such as virtual machines or containers, based on predefined rules and metrics.
📄️ Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
A networking approach that decouples the control plane from the data plane, enabling centralized and programmable network management, often used in IoT networks to optimize performance and security.
📄️ Service-level Agreements (SLAs)
Contractual agreements between IoT service providers and customers that specify the performance, availability, and support standards for the provided services.
📄️ Storage
A critical component of IoT systems, where data generated by devices, sensors, and applications is stored for processing, analysis, and archiving.
📄️ Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
A financial estimate that considers all direct and indirect costs associated with the acquisition, deployment, and operation of an IoT system, device, or service.
📄️ Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)
A comprehensive approach to managing and securing IoT devices, networks, and applications, providing centralized visibility, control, and policy enforcement.
📄️ Uptime
The amount of time an IoT system, device, or service is available and operational, often used as a measure of reliability and availability.
📄️ Vertical Scaling
The process of adding or removing resources, such as CPU, memory, or storage, to an existing IoT device, system, or service to improve performance or capacity.
📄️ VM Image
A snapshot of a virtual machine's disk state at a given point in time, used for creating, deploying, and managing virtual machines in IoT and cloud environments.
📄️ Virtual Machine (VM)
A software-based emulation of a physical computer, enabling the deployment and management of multiple isolated IoT environments on a single physical host.
📄️ Zone-redundant Storage
A storage option that replicates data across multiple availability zones within a single region, providing increased durability and availability for IoT data.