Glossary

Term	Description
Bosch IoT Insights	Bosch IoT Insights is a fully managed cloud service that collects, processes, and stores your IoT data for further analysis. IoT data management provides the basis for optimizing devices and functions and developing new services and solutions.
Data	lowest level of abstraction from which information and then knowledge is derived sequence of one or more symbols, given meaning by specific acts of interpretation Examples: sensor value, counter, histogram
Field data	data collected in an uncontrolled in situ environment data collected by using a product in a realistic environment Examples: pre- or post-SOP data collection with production vehicles, etc.
Context data	essential vehicle or infrastructure characteristics data retrieved from outside the object under inspection (e.g. products) Examples: VIN, OEM, model, odometer, etc.
Meta data	descriptive, structural or administrative documentation about data ("data about data") piece of information, necessary to use or properly interpret actual data Examples: information about data origin, quality, organization, implementation, etc.
Database structure	General example of what we refer to as a "data set", attribute or features, record, and value.
User	A user is a human being, a machine, network, etc. subscribing to use a part of an application. The initial user of an Insights project is the one who has subscribed the service instance. This user is empowered to invite further users to the project. See Authentication and authorization
Role	A role is a job function within the context of an organization. The associated semantics regards rights and duties (the authority and responsibility) conferred upon the user (or group of users) assigned to that role. See the list of roles within an Insights project at Available roles.