90+ Core Concepts · IoT, Industry, Agriculture, Medical, Energy, Logistics
The Solution Terminology Knowledge Base covers core concepts in IoT, industrial manufacturing, agriculture and animal husbandry, healthcare, energy and power, urban security, logistics and supply chain, and other fields. Click on the terms to view detailed explanations.
Solution terms in this list are objects defined apart from one another. They are not slogans that can be swapped. Each entry should be able to answer what it means technically, under what conditions the object holds, and which similar-looking practices are actually something else. Device entries describe an apparatus that measures or acts. Process entries describe work that has to hold continuously. Rule entries describe how records and responsibility should be left. Writing the three as one paragraph of "system functions" mixes the tool, the procedure, and the compliance requirement into a single product name.
When looking something up, first decide which boundary is the problem. Judging whether cold-chain data can serve as a drug record requires, at the same time, how temperature was measured, whether transport was continuous, and which batch the operating rules require the evidence to match. It is not enough to open one of those words. A cross-reference means two terms meet in the same scene. It does not mean their conditions of use are the same, and it does not mean satisfying one automatically satisfies the other. The categories on the page are only a way to find an entry. The same term can be constrained quite differently in manufacturing, agriculture, or healthcare. Read the conditions written on that page after you enter it.
Defining neighboring words by each other is a common way to misread the list. Seeing the cloud platform and thinking cloud computing is already understood, using face recognition to explain every image task, or treating a microgrid as another name for storage, are examples. Treating related links as implementation steps, and preparing equipment in the order the pages appear, without checking whether the site has the conditions under which the term holds, also connects the wrong things. Entries that share an English abbreviation, or whose Chinese names differ by one character, are not the same concept for that reason. Interfaces and responsibility are then attached to the wrong object. The index itself cannot replace a check on site. It only helps split the problem onto the right entry.
Start from a concrete fault or decision, return to the matching entry, and see whether the object in the definition is the object on site. If one record involves measurement, a process, and a rule, open those three kinds of entry and see whether the evidence can be aligned. Do not look in the index for one umbrella name to wrap the problem. Compared with basic entries such as the cloud platform and sensors, an industry entry often also requires a batch, a metering point, or a responsible person. Reading only the basic definition is not the end.
When two entries share an abbreviation, look first at whether the page defines a device, a process, or a rule, and only then decide whether it can be cited. Jumping on the short name in the index easily writes a monitoring method as a management duty, or writes a management duty as a function a particular device already has.
After entering an entry from the index, read how that page bounds the object, then the conditions under which it holds and where it commonly goes wrong. Saving the link without reading those conditions still leaves neighboring terms treated as interchangeable wording.