Smart Appliances Guide
GENERAL INFORMATION
Connected Smart Appliances - Gen III
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Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
TERM DEFINITION
ACU Appliance Control Unit: The electronic control that manages the appliance’s
loads and in some cases the user interface. See also CCU.
CCU Central Control Unit: The electronic control that manages the appliance’s
loads and in some cases the user interface. See also ACU.
CLAIMING Adding/registering the appliance with the user account.
HAN Home Area Network: In-premise communicaon system.
HMI Human Machine Interface - the electronic control that manges the
appliance’s user interface.
MAC ADDRESS Media Access Control Address - a unique idener assigned to network
interfaces.
SMART APPLIANCE A home appliance, which is connected to a network, so as to remotely
monitor, manage, and maintain the appliance.
PROVISIONING Connecng the WiFi enabled appliance to the consumer’s home network.
SAID Security Associaon IDener - provides secure communicaon between
your account/IHD and appliance.
WIN The Whirlpool proprietary protocols designed for controlling appliances
used by the WiFi modules plugged in to smart appliances.
WiFi or WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WISE Whirlpool Integrated Service Environment: a back oce system that
provides an environment for consumers, service providers, ulies,
government, appliance manufacturers, to parcipate in the Smart Grid and
provide value-added services to consumers.
WPA2 Wireless Protected Access II - security protocol developed by the Wi-Fi
Alliance to secure wireless computer networks.
WPS Wireless Protected Setup: A compung standard that aempts to allow easy
establishment of a secure wireless home network.
WSDN Whirlpool Smart Device Network: Consists of a Home Area Network, Energy
and Ulity Domain, and an Internet Domain.