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Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Term Description
FCC Federal Communications Commission.
An institute that regulates interstate (USA) and international communications via radio.
FL An Essence Term.
A Flood Detector peripheral device.
FSK Frequency-Shift Keying.
A frequency modulation scheme in which digital information is transmitted through discrete
frequency changes of a carrier wave.
FTP File Transfer Protocol.
A standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a
TCP -
based network, such as the Internet.
GCM Google Cloud Messaging.
GCM is a service that helps developers sending data from servers to their Android applications
on Android devices, or from servers to their Chrome applications and extensions on Personal
Computers. GCM replaces a previous beta version of Android Cloud to Device Messaging
(
C2DM ).
GPRS General Packet Radio Service.
A packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and
3G cellular communication system's
global system for mobile communications ( GSM ).
Group A Z-Wave® Term.
Nodes/Modules combined into a single logical group to collectively operate so that when a
command is sent to the group (i.e. “turn ON”), all modules included in that group will respond
and turn ON together. Dimmer devices will return to their previous level (varies from module
to module), and basic binary switches will either turn ON or OFF.
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.
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
This is an application protocol developed for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia
information systems. HTTP is the most basic building-block and foundation of data
communication for the
WWW . Hypertext is a multi-linear set of objects, building a network by
using logical links (the so-called hyperlinks) between the nodes (like text or words).
HTTPS HTTP Secure.
HTTPS is a communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network.
IIS Internet Information Services.
Internet Information Services, formerly – Internet Information Server, is a Microsoft™ web
server software application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft™ for
use with Microsoft™ Windows. It is an integral part of the Windows Server family of products
(and their client counterparts in the cases of Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000), as well as
certain editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
IIS 7.5 supports
HTTP , HTTPS , FTP , FTPS, SMTP and NNTP.