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The Internet of Things (IoT) lexicon is constantly growing. Don’t get caught unprepared.
You know that uncomfortable feeling in the pit of your stomach when you didn’t study for the test and you think you’ll get a failing grade? You stare blankly at the test questions and feel completely lost and adrift. It’s like having a conversation with a colleague who casually drops a term or acronym related to the Internet of Things (IoT), and you suddenly find yourself on unfamiliar ground.
When you work cross-functionally across IT, security, DevOps and identity teams, there are several IoT terms that are bound to come up. You can help yourself, your team, and your career by getting familiar with them. Here are some of the most common ones:
- Things: This is the “T” in IoT. It refers to any device, process, or machine that becomes part of the infrastructure or your organization and needs to be managed. The term is casually used in conversation, as in: “How many things do we have operating on our network?”
- RPA: This acronym spells out Robotic Process Automation, which is the ability of a machine to consistently and repeatedly perform a pre-programmed task. Think of it as a claims agent process for an insurance company that can automate inputting claims faster and with fewer errors – far exceeding human capabilities. The next iteration of RPA involves artificial intelligence (AI), which moves RPA out of the static, rule-based arena and into self-driving IoT intelligence.
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