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Glossary of industrieal IoT (IIoT) terms
No other industry uses as many technical terms as in IT / ITK. What terms are used regularly in IT / ITK and what do they mean? Is there a special IoT vocabulary that you should know and need for a good understanding? We have compiled a list of the most important technical terms and explain their meaning.
Glossary of industieal IoT (IIoT) systems and their technical terms
Overview
adaptiv
Easy to adopt in case of changes or enhancementsadaptive agil
Kind of working in an short period fashionagile Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
Application Centric InfrastructureApplication Programming Interface (API)
An interface for developersAutomatisierung
Fully automatic handling instead of error prone human handlingautomation Betriebliches Kontinuitätsmanagement (BKM)
Concept to avoid operational disruptions or total failuresBusiness Continuity Management (BCM )Black-Box
A part of an application, which does work in an unknown fassionblack box Building Automation and Control Networks (BACnet)
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An interacting group of systemsConcise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation.Constrained Application Protocol
Constrained Application ProtocolConstrained Application Protocol () Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deliverydezentral
When services or functionality is locally provideddecentalised Digitaler Zwilling
Digital TwinDigital Twin Digitalisierung
Providing a digital sibling for all real objectsdigitizion Direct Number Control (DNC)
An interface for computer control of CNC maschinesDistributed Control System (DCS)
Modern standard widely employed to control industrial machines electronicallyEdge
A special way of data processing at the edge of the company.Emergency recovery
A digital disaster recovery techniqueEnterprise Architecture Management (EAM)
Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM)ETS
ETS is the programming software for KNX / EIB systemEvent Driven Architecture (EDA)
Event Driven ArchitectureEvent-Bus
A kind (loosely coupled) communication by messages between componentsEventBus Fern UV-C
Fern UV-CFar UV-C Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
Field Programmable Gate ArrayGeneral-purpose input/output (GPIO)
general-purpose input/outputGrid
An interacting group of systemsHomekit
Apple HomekitHuman Centric Lightning (HCL)
Generic term for lighting adapted to human needs (bright white light in the morning, warm light dimmed in the evening)Hyperkonvergente Infrastrukturen (HCI)
Hyper-converged infrastructureHyper-converged infrastructure (HCI )Industrie 4.0
Digitaization of the industryIndustry 4.0 Industrie PC (ICS)
PC for industrial usageIndustrial Computer Systems (ICS )Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (ITK)
An abroviation for IT and communication. Mostly prefered in producing environmentsopen (ITC )Informationstechnik (IT)
A term for all kind of systems and components which are used for information and data handlinginformation technolgy (IT )Infrastruktur Repository (ISR)
A central datastore, where the setting is been stored for all kind of systems and componentsinfrastructure repository (ISR )International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
International Electrotechnical Commission is a standard for ...Internet of Things (IoT)
A term for all kind of systems and machines which are communicating between the internetInteroperabilität
interoperabilityinteroperability Legacy
A legacy software ore system is a older / longer used software or systemLevel of Control
Level of automation- Level 1: Remote Control
- Level 2: Programmed Sequences (Macros)
- Level 3: Conditional Control
- Level 4: Interactive
- Level 5: Self-learning
Lichtwellenleiter (LWL)
Optical fiberOptical Fiber (LWL )Lock-in
vendor lock-inlose Kopplung
When software components are coupled by just exchanging messages and eventsloose coupling Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
Manufacturing Execution System (MES)Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle (MMS)
German: MMS (Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle)Human Maschine Interface (HMI )Mess-, Steuerungs- und Regelungstechnik (MSR)
Instrumentation Control AutomationInstrumentation Control Automation (ICA )Microservice
xxxxmicro service monolitisch
Single and locally operating systemmonolithic MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
MQTT is an open OASIS and ISO standard for interconnecting devices via publish-subscribeMultiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Multiprotocol Label SwitchingNetzzugangskontrolle
Network access controlNetwork access control () Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control (OPC)
OPC StandardObservability
Observabilityoffen
An interface or program which can be used and enriched by everybodyopen Open Containers Initiative (OCI)
Open Containers Initiative (OCI)Predictive Maintenance (PM)
Predictive Maintenance (PM)Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Privileged Access ManagementProduct Data Management (PDM)
Product Data ManagementProduktionsplanung und -steuerung (PPS)
xxxProduction planing and control (PPS )Produktlebenszyklusmanagement (PLM)
Product Lifecycle ManagementProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM )Profinet
Profinetproprietär
Vendor dependent lock instead of an open and standardized technology or systemproprietary Publish/Subscribe
Publish/SubscribeRedundanz
Redundancyredundancy Reference Architecture Model for Industry 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
Reihenklemmen
A terminal block is an electric mounting point, for cable installation purposeterminal blocks Representational State Transfer (REST)
A de facto standard for using IT-services over HTTP/HTTPSResidual Current Device (RCD)
Residual Current DeviceRetrofit
RetrofitRobotic Operation System (ROS)
Robotic Operation SystemRobotic Process Automation (RPA)
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)Schichten
Applications and their data flow are divided into different technical horizontal partslayer Service-Level-Agreement (SLA)
Service-Level-Agreement (SLA)Single Board Computer (SBC)
Single board computerSmart Cluster
A group of loosely coupled modules, which are working like on intelligent pieceSmart Grid
A connected group of mostly electrical components which can be easily reoganizedSoftware Defined Networks (SDN)
Software Defined Networks (SDN)Speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung (SPS)
A programmable logic controllerprogrammable logic controller (PLC )Standard
A clearly defined and adoptable kind of interfaceStellantrieb
actuatoractuator Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
Modern standard widely employed to control industrial machines electronicallySupervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) (SCADA )Supply-Chain-Management (SCM)
Supply-Chain-ManagementSupply-Chain-Management (Supply-Chain-Management )System
A term for IT components which are providing some kind of serviceSystem Engineering (SE)
System EngineeringTransparenz
Full overview of the IT landscape an all its ongoing services and datatransparency universal machine technology interface (umapi)
Adaption of OPC UA standard as a brand of the mechanical engineering associations VDMA and VDWumapi (umapi )