Glossary - TraffiCast BlueTOAD Spectra Quick Start Manual

Glossary

In the glossary below, terms are listed in alphabetical order along with their meanings. Below is an example
of acronyms used in text.
Example: In the future, each automobile will be a Connected Vehicle (CV) equipped with
an Onboard Unit (OBU) that will communicate with the external traffic infrastructure.
Term
AGL
ATIS
AWS
BlueARGUS
BlueTOAD
BSM
CAT-5 Cable
CV / CAV
DIAM
Discoverable/
Non-Discoverable
DNS UDP
DSRC
Egress
EIRP
EMAC
ERM
FCC
Free-TEXT
GPS
HTML
IEEE
TrafficCast Quick Start—BlueTOAD Spectra and Spectra RSU
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Above Ground Level
American Traveler Information Systems
Amazon Web Services
Web-based software to monitor BlueTOAD detectors
Bluetooth Travel time Origin And Destination
®
Basic Safety Message—every 0.10 second, a connected vehicle (CV) broadcasts its vehicle type,
speed, location, direction and approach relative to an intersection.
Category 5 cable, a twisted pair cable for computer networks. The cable standard provides
performance of up to 100 MHz and is suitable for 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet). This is also
called an "Ethernet Cable" or a "LAN Cable."
Connected Vehicle / Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
DENSO International America, Inc.
Discoverable = Bluetooth device searching to Pair with another Bluetooth device
Non-Discoverable = two Paired Bluetooth devices
Domain Name System—a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for resources connected to
the Internet or a private network. User Datagram Protocol—an alternative comm protocol to TCP
Dedicated Short Range Communications
Going out of (leaving) an intersection
Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
Ethernet Media Access Controller
Event Reporting Message
Federal Communications Commission
Custom text you type to create a message or part of a message for a TIM
Global Positioning System
Hypertext Markup Language
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Meaning
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