| AAL | Ambient assisted living |
| ANN | Artificial neural network |
| AQD | Air quality detector |
| AR | Air rate |
| BW | Bandwidth |
| CR | Coding rate |
| CRC | Cyclic redundancy check |
| CSS | Chirp spread spectrum |
| ELE | Enhanced living environments |
| IoT | Internet of things |
| ISM | Industrial scientific medical |
| LQI | Link quality indication |
| PDR | Packet delivery ratio |
| PER | Packet error ratio |
| PHY | Physical |
| PL | Payload length |
| PLR | Packet loss ratio |
| RS | Receive sensitivity |
| RSSI | Received signal strength indication |
| RTT | Round-trip time |
| SB | Smart building |
| SF | Spreading factor |
| SP | Send power |
| SNR | Signal noise ratio |
| TOA | Time of arrival |