Distributed Intelligence.

A unique identifier for a meter that includes a vendor component to ensure uniqueness across vendors.

A head-end system is hardware and software component of the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) that communicates with meters and performs operations such as retrieving readings data, downloading firmware and performing disconnects.

Platform and collection of cloud services that provide the functionality for Itron products.

A set of services, both on-premises and in the cloud, that facilitate communications between on-premises systems and cloud microservices that are part of the ICSP.

An architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services.

Activity of delivering message to message bus.

Open Authorization is an open standard for token-based authentication and authorization on the Internet.

A Windows application that runs alongside of OWOC to facilitate to push messages collected by OWOC into subscribers.

A Head-End System product from Itron.

Synonym for message delivered to message bus.

Representational State Transfer

Microsoft Azure Service Bus that supports a set of cloud-based, message-oriented middleware technologies including reliable message queuing and durable publish/subscribe messaging. For more information, see Microsoft's documentation, here.

Queues offer First In, First Out (FIFO) message delivery to one or more competing consumers. For more information about creating queues in Azure, see Microsoft's documentation, here.

A popular platform agnostic way to share cloud resources.