Terminologies

List of terminologies and it's meanings.

The following table lists the Fogwing terminologies that are used across the application:

Terminology	Meaning
Application	Virtual name for one or group of edge functions
Edge	Any device or gateway that sends telemetry data to cloud application
IoThub	An MQTT hub is the gateway of fogwing to receive high volume messages
Client Id	A unique id required to connect with MQTT broker
Data log	A data storage of telemetry data received from edge devices
Active Edge	The edge devices that are in contact with Fogwing IoThub less than 3 hours
Inactive Edge	The edge device(s) that were connected earlier and are now silent for more than 3 hours
Payload	the actual payload received from the edge devices through IoThub
Audit log	All functional events that happen within Fogwing recorded as log

This is a living page where we will keep updating the terminologies as and when we introduce.