User Guide Part 8

Security Aspects
We.R
™
System User Guide
259
Term
Description
ECS
An Essence Term.
Essence Connect Server.
EDGE
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.
Also known as Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), or IMT Single Carrier (IMT-SC), or
Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution.
This is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission
rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM.
ESIX
An Essence Term.
The protocol used to send encrypted messages between We.R
™
CCUs and the
We.R
™
servers.
FCC
Federal Communications Commission.
An institute that regulates interstate (USA) and international communications via
radio.
FL
An Essence Term.
A We.R
™
system 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 sends data from servers to their Android
applications on Android devices, or from servers to their Chrome applications
and extensions.
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.