Principles that determine the moral behaviour of a human being or a machine (according to ETSI). Across domains, ethics is the scientific study of morality. Furthermore, ethics reflects and philosophises on various moral concepts, analyses and systematises, examines and questions their justifications and principles. There are various moral concepts, systems of norms, principles, values or dispositions, all of which claim to be the basis of a right action.

• virtue ethics
• ethisches Dilemma

ETSI GR ENI 004 set of principles that govern the moral behaviour of a person or machine

An agent is ethical if and only if it acts according to a set of moral values.

• ethics

ETSI GR ENI 004 agent is ethical if and only if it acts according to a set of moral values

Part of an IoT system that interacts and communicates with the physical world by sensing or triggering.

Note: An IoT device can be both a sensor and an actuator (see also Internet of Things).

ISO/IEC DIS 22989 entity of an IoT system that interacts and communicates with the physical world through sensing or actuating

Note 1 to entry: An IoT device can be a sensor or an actuator.

[SOURCE: ISO/IEC 20924:2018, 3.2.4]