| Acronym | |
| AAF | Anti Aliasing Filter |
| ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
| AFE | Analog Front-End |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIC | Akaike Information Criterion |
| AlN | Aluminum Nitride |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| ASCS | Aircraft Smart Composite Skin |
| ASIC | Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| BD | Big Data |
| BSS | Bioinspired Stretchable Sensors |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CFRP | Composite Fiber Reinforce Polymer |
| CMRR | Common Mode Rejection Ratio |
| CMUT | Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer |
| CNN | Convolutanional Neural Network |
| CNT | Carbon Nanotubes |
| COPV | Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel |
| COTS | Component Of The Shelf |
| CWT | Continuous Wavelet Transform |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DToA | Differential Time of Arrival |
| EMI | Electro-Mechanical Impedance |
| FBG | Fiber Bragg Grating |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array |
| FUT | Flexible Ultrasonic Transducers |
| GFRP | Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer |
| IDT | Interdigital Transducer |
| INA | Instrumentation Amplifier |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| ISHM | Integrated Structural Health Monitoring |
| LNA | Low Noise Amplifier |
| MEMS | Micro Electrical Mechanical System |
| MFC | Macro Fiber Composite |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| NDI | Non Destructive Inspection |
| NDT | Non Destructive Testing |
| NF | Noise Figure |
| PLC | Power Line Communication |
| PMUT | Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers |
| PTP | Precise Time Protocol |
| PVDF | Polyvinylidene fluoride |
| PVDF–TrFE | Polyvinyledenedifluoride–trifluoroethylene copolymer |
| PZT | Lead zirconate titanate |
| PWAS | Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors |
| ROI | Region Of Interest |
| RPL | Routing protocols for low-power networks |
| RTD | Resistive Temperature Device |
| SH | Shear Horizontal |
| SHM | Structural Health Monitoring |
| SiC | Silicon Carbide |
| SL | SMART Layer® |
| SS | Smart-Skin |
| SLDV | Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SOC | System on Chip |
| STFT | Short Time Fourier Transform |
| TOF | Time Of Flight |
| UGM | Ultrasonic Guided Mode |
| UGW | Ultrasonic Guided Wave |
| VGA | Variable Gain Amplifier |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network |