| 5G | Fifth Generation Cellular Network |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| ASICS | Application-Specific Integrated Circuits |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| BaaS | Blockchain-as-a-Service |
| CAGR | Compound Annual Growth Rate |
| CAPEX | Capital Expenses |
| CPS | Cyber Physical System |
| CRPS | Challenge-Response Pairs |
| CS | Cybersecurity |
| DAppss | Dated, Achievable, Personal, Positive and Specific |
| DLT | Distributed Ledger Technology |
| DNOs | Distribution Network Operators |
| DPoS | Delegated Proof-of-Stake |
| DTs | Digital Twins |
| DUT | Device Under Test |
| E2E | End-to-End |
| EEA | Enterprise Ethereum Alliance |
| EMC | Electromagnetic Compatibility |
| FIB | Focused Ion Beam |
| FPGAs | Field Programmable Gate Arrays |
| ICs | Integrated Circuits |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| IoE | Internet-of-Energy |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet-of-Things |
| IoT | Internet-of-Things |
| IP | Intellectual Property |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| IT | Informational Technology |
| ITU-T | International Telecommunication Union |
| LTE | Long Term Evaluation |
| LPWAN | Low-Power Wide-Area Network |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| MITM | Man-in-the-Middle |
| NVM | Non-Volatile Memories |
| OPEX | Operational Expenses |
| OT | Operational Technology |
| PBFT | Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PoP | Proof-of-Physical Unclonable Function |
| PoS | Proof-of-Stake |
| PoW | Proof-of-Work |
| PUF | Physical Unclonable Function |
| PUFChain | Physical Unclonable Function assisted Blockchain |
| REST | Representational State Transfer |
| ROM | Read-Only-Memory |
| SCADA | Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition |
| SDOs | Standards Developing Organization |
| SRAM | Static Random-Access Memory |
| TRNGs | True Random Number Generators |
| WLP | Web Ledger Protocol |