| LP-WAN | Low-Power Wide Area Networking |
| M2M | Machine-to-Machine |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet of Things |
| B2B | Business-to-Business |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Networks |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile communications) |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| MAC | Medium Access Control |
| ISM | Industrial, Scientific, and Medical |
| CSS | Chirp Spread Spectrum |
| SP | Spreading Factor |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
| DBPSK | Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying |
| GMSK | Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying |
| OQPSK | Offset Quadrature Phase shift Keying |
| RPMA | Random Phase Multiple Access |
| LECIM | Low Energy Critical Infrastructure Monitoring |
| 3GPP | 3rd Generation Partnership Project |
| LTE-MTC | Long Term Evolution-Machine-Type Communications |