AIS

Not to be confused with Ais.

AIS is a three-letter abbreviation that may mean:

Among organizations:

• Advanced Info Service, a Thai mobile phone operator
• Aeronautical Information Service
• Alltel Information Services
• Amity International School
• Armée islamique du salut (Islamic Salvation Army), the former military wing of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria
• Association for Information Systems
• Australian Information Service
• Australian Institute of Sport

In software and technology:

• Account Information Security, a VISA security program intended to protect the account information of credit card holders
• Accounting information system
• Alarm indication signal, a signal transmitted by a system that is part of a communications link to let the receiver know that some part of the link has failed. Some types of AIS signals are:
  • Alarm indication signal path (AIS-P)
  • Alarm indication signal line (AIS-L)
• Application Interface Specification, a technical specification defined by the Service Availability Forum
• Automated Intercept System, a telecommunications system that typically handles the automated error messages in the public telephone system (e.g. "The number you have reached has been disconnected...")
• Automatic Identification System, a navigation and surveillance system capable of providing information about a ship to others and to coastal authorities automatically

In biology:

• Androgen insensitivity syndrome
• Automated information system

Among other uses:

• Academic intervention services