| AAL | Ambient Assisted Living |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AoA | Angle of Arrival |
| AP | Access Point |
| BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy |
| CDF | Cumulative distribution Function |
| CIPS | Collaborative Indoor Positioning System |
| CSI | Channel State Information |
| CTP | Collection tree protocol |
| D2D | Device to Device |
| DR | Dead Reckoning |
| EKF | Extended Kalman Filter |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| GLONASS | Globalnaya Navigazionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IPS | Indoor Position System |
| k-NN | k-Nearest Neighbors |
| LBS | location-based service |
| LOS | Line-of-sight |
| LS | Least Square |
| LTE | Long-Term Evolution |
| MEMS | Microelectro-Mechanical System |
| NLLS | Non-Linear Least Square |
| NLOS | Non-line-of-sight |
| PDR | Pedestrian Dead Reckoning |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RFID | Radio-Frequency Identification |
| RMSE | Root Mean Square Error |
| RSS | Received Signal Strength |
| RSSI | Received Signal Strength Indicator |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| TDoA | Time Difference of Arrival |
| ToA | Time of Arrival |
| ToA/ToF | Time of Arrival/Flight |
| TWR | Two-way Ranging |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UTDoA | Uplink Time-Difference-of-Arrival |
| UWB | Ultra-wide band |
| VLC | Visible Light Communication |
| WASP | Wireless Application Service Provider |
| Wi-Fi | IEEE 802.11Wireless LAN |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network |