| ABP | Activation by Personalization |
| ACK | Acknowledgement |
| ADR | Adaptive Data Rate |
| ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| BLE | Bluetooth Low Energy |
| BW | Bandwidth |
| CC | Central Controller |
| Ch | Channel |
| CO | Carbon Monoxide |
| CONF | CONFirmed |
| CR | Coding Rate |
| CSS | Chirp Spread Spectrum |
| DAC | Digital to Analog Converter |
| DCP | Downlink Control Packet |
| DL | Downlink |
| ED | End Device |
| FDMA | Frequency-Division Multiple Access |
| FMAR | Factories at Major Accident Risk |
| GW | Gateway |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| ISM | Industrial, Scientific and Medical |
| ISPRA | Istituto superiore per la protezione e la ricerca ambientale |
| KPI | Key Performance Indicator |
| LoRa | Long Range |
| LoRaWAN | Long Range Wide Area Network |
| LEL | Lower Explosive Level |
| MAC | Medium Access Control |
| mIoT | massive IoT |
| MQTT | Message Queue Telemetry Transport |
| OTAA | Over-The-Air-Activation |
| O2 | Oxygen |
| PDR | Packet Delivery Rate |
| PLR | Packet Loss Rate |
| QoS | Quality of Service |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| RP | Regular Packet |
| SD | Secure Digital |
| SF | Spreading Factor |
| TDMA | Time-Division Multiple Access |
| TS | Time Slotted |
| UL | Uplink |
| UNCONF | UNCONFirmed |
| UP | Urgent Packet |
| WiFi | Wireless Fidelity |