| IoT | Internet-of-Things |
| CADF | Consorzio Acque Delta Ferrarese |
| LoRa | Long Range |
| OCR | Optical character recognition |
| SWaMM | Smart Water Metering Middleware |
| DBMS | database management system |
| RBAC | Role Based Access Control |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport |
| LoraWAN | Low Power WAN Protocol for Internet of Things |
| AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol |
| AMR | Automatic Meter Reading |
| RMR | Remote Meter Reading |
| CAPEX | Capital expenditure |
| OPEX | Operating expense |
| NB-IoT | Narrowband IoT |
| COTS | Commercial Off The Shelf |
| SBC | Single-board Computer |
| WMPy | Water Management Python |
| ReST | Representational State Transfer |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition |