Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
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Care@Home™ Smoke Detector User Guide
Term
Description
GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications.
A standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI).
The GSM standard describes protocols developed for second generation (2G) digital
cellular networks which are used by mobile phones.
IPD
An Essence Term.
A Motion Indoor Photo Detector peripheral device. Also referred to as Camera.
KF
An Essence Term.
A Key Fob peripheral device.
LSU
An Essence Term.
Local Software Update.
MGL/MGLS
An Essence Term.
An Indoor Magnetic Sensor peripheral device.
OS
Operating System.
Software that manages computers’ basic functions.
PIR
An Essence Term.
A Motion Detector peripheral device.
RF
Radio Frequency.
RFID
Radio-Frequency Identification.
A wireless, non-contact system using radio signals to transfer data from a tag attached to
an object for automatic identification.
RIA
Rich Internet Application.
Web application with many characteristics of desktop application software.
Typically delivered by way of a site-specific browser, a browser plug-in, an independent
sandbox, extensive use of JavaScript, or a virtual machine.
RSU
Remote Software Update
SHA-1
Secure Hash Algorithm.
In cryptography, SHA-1 is a cryptographic hash function designed by the US National
Security Agency and published by the US NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing
Standard.
SIM
A small card placed in a mobile phone in order to identify the phone to the cellular
carrier.
SK2
An Essence Term.
A Smoke Detector peripheral device.
SMPP
Short Message Peer-to-Peer.
An open, industry standard protocol designed to provide a flexible data communication
interface for the transfer of short message data between External Short Messaging
Entities (ESME), Routing Entities (RE) and Message Centers.
SMS
A text message on a mobile device.
