3.4 Terms and concepts practice

This activity will help you to test some of the terms and concepts you've been introduced to.

actuator

a motor that can be used to move or control a mechanism or system according to a specific set of instructions

Bluetooth

a short-range wireless communication protocol suite that transmits data via low-powered radio waves

Cloud computing

... servers and services are dispersed all over the globe in distributed database centres

sensor

a 'thing' that measures a physical property and converts that data into an electrical signal

controller

... forwards data gathered from sensors to other devices on an M2M network

Java

a popular object-oriented programming language that works on multiple platforms

TCP/IP

... required for devices that communicate directly across the Internet

small business or home business wireless router

connects devices on a local LAN with the internet

Linux

an operating system that allows humans to interact with computers

6LoWPAN

IPv6-based low power wireless communication protocol

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