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Glossary
Asset Tracking
Knowing what assets a company owns and where they
are located. Assets tracked normally include computers,
furniture, office appliances, telephones, etc.
ATS
Asset Tracking System. The name of the system and the
application used to track your company’s assets.
Bar Code
A series of bars and spaces used to encode information.
Examples of bar codes include the UPC symbols used
on retail products, and ISBN bar codes used on books
and magazines.
Battery
Indicator
The Battery Indicator
shows roughly how much
battery life remains in the battery pack.
BSN
The (usually) 8-digit
B
ar coded
S
erial
N
umber. This is
the identification number used on the asset.
Categories
The Palm terminal allows you to group applications into
categories and step through these categories using the
Application Launcher button.
CO
Central Office
COE
Central Office Equipment.
COEMOD
Central Office Equipment Model.
COEP
Central Office Equipment Property.
Conduit
A program used to communicate data between a Palm
terminal and a host computer (normally a PC).
Conduits normally handle synchronizing data between
the two computers.
Cradle
The device that holds the handheld terminal and connects
it to the communications lines and to external power.
The cradle is used to charge the terminal and also allows
the terminal to send and receive data.
Dock
Same as “Cradle.”
Download
Moving data from a larger (or more important) computer
system to another. That is, you would download data
from your company’s server to a user’s handheld
terminal.