| AAL | Ambient Assisted Living |
| ASP | Answer Set Programming |
| BAN | Body Area Network |
| BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy |
| BRS | Back-end Reasoning Service |
| C-SPARQL | Continuous SPARQL |
| CEP | Complex Event Processing |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| DL | Description Logic |
| DSMS | Data Stream Management System |
| EHR | Electronic Health Record |
| ELE | Enhanced Living Environments |
| IoT | Internet-of-Things |
| LRS | Local Reasoning Service |
| MHz | MegaHertz |
| OBDA | Ontology-Based Data Access |
| OBU | Observation Unit |
| oNCS | ontology-based Nurse Call System |
| OWL | Web Ontology Language |
| PoC | Proof-of-Concept |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| RDFS | RDF Schema |
| RSP | RDF Stream Processing |
| RSPS | RDF Stream Processing Service |
| SPARQL | Sparql Protocol And RDF Query Language |
| SSN | Semantic Sensor Network |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network |