| AAL | Ambient assisted living |
| ICT | Information and communication technologies |
| ADL | Activities of daily living |
| GMM | Gaussian mixture model |
| EM | Expectation maximization |
| NB | Naive Bayes |
| HMM | Hidden Markov model |
| PCA | Principle component analysis |
| CCA | Canonical correlation analysis |
| DBSCAN | Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise |
| LCS | Least common subsumer |
| CBLOF | Cluster-based local outlier factor |
| SMART | Simultaneous multi-classifier activity recognition technique |
| IHL | Indoor human localization |
| PIR | Passive infrared |
| FDI | Fault detection and isolation |
| IR | Infrared |
| TBM | Transferable belief model |
| MCM | Markov chain model |
| HSMM | Hidden semi-Markov model |