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. 2021 Jan 29;21(3):913. doi: 10.3390/s21030913
A-GPS Assisted Global Positioning System
ABP Authentication By Personalisation
ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADR Adaptive Data Rate
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ALK Alkaline
AT ATtention
AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise
BOD Brown-Out Detection
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
CE Coverage Enhancement
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cycle Redundancy Check
CSS Chirp Spread Spectrum
DBPSK Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMAC Direct Memory Access Controller
ECC Elliptic-Curve Cryptography
EDLC Electric Double-Layer Capacitor
eDRX Extended Discontinuous Reception Mode
EM Electromagnetic
FFT Fast Fourrier Transfomation
FSK Frequency-Shift Keying
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GPIO General-Purpose Input/Output
GPS Global Positioning System
GSM Global Systemfor Mobile Communications
I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
IO Input/Output
IoT Internet of Things
ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical
LCO Lithium Cobalt Oxide
LDO Low-Dropout Regulator
LED Light Emitting Diode
LIC Lithium-ion Capacitor
LID Lithium Iron Disulfide
LIPO Lithium Polymer
LMD Lithium Manganese Dioxide
LoRa Long Range
LoRaWAN Long-Range Wide-Area Network
LPWAN Low-Power Wide-Area Network
LPWANs Low-Power Wide-Area Networks
LTC Lithium Thionyl Chloride
LTE Long Term Evolution
LTO Lithium Titanium Oxide
M2M Machine-to-Machine
MAC Medium Access Control
MCL Maximum Coupling Loss
MCU Microcontroller Unit
MPPT Maximum Power Point Tracking
MTC Machine-Type Communication
Multi-RAT Multiple Radio Access Technology
NB-IoT Narrowband IoT
OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access
OTAA Over The Air Authentication
PA Power Amplifier
PAPR Peak-to-Average Power Ratio
PC Lithium Poly Carbon
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PHY Physical
PLL Phased Locked Loop
PMU Power Management Unit
PRS Peripheral Reflex System
PSM Power Saving Mode
PV Photovoltaic
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
RAM Random-Access Memory
RF Radio Frequency
RTC Real Time Clock
SC-FDMA Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access
SHA Secure Hash Algorithm
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SOC System on Chip
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
TAU Tracking Area Update
TPMS Tire-Pressure Monitoring System
TTFF Time To First Fix
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UV Unmanned Vehicle
VOC Voltatile Organic Compound