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. 2022 Jan 2;22(1):325. doi: 10.3390/s22010325
Terminology Description
IoT Internet of Things
IIoT Industrial Internet of Things
OPC UA Open Platform Communications United Architecture
UA United Architecture
FSM Finite State Machine
HLFSM High-Level State Machine
API Application programming interface
HW Hardware
SCADA Supervisory control and data acquisition
MES Manufacturing execution system
IN Input
OUT Output
MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport
BPMN Business Process Model and Notation
UART Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
1Wire One Wire
I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit
CAN Controller Area Network
SDIO Secure Digital Input Output
HTTP Hypertext transfer protocol
AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
CoAP Constrained Application Protocol
DDS The Data Distribution Service
S7comm S7 Communication
MODBUS The data communications protocol
PROFINET Industry technical standard for data communication over Industrial Ethernet
PROFIBUS Fieldbus communication in automation technology
CPU Central processing unit
PLC Programmable Logic Controller