List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

 

3GPP 3G Partnership Project Protocols

6LoWPAN IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks

ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability of transactions

ADAS Advance Driver Assistance Systems

ADC Analog-to-Digital Converter

ADFG Acrylic Data Flow Graph

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AES Advanced Encryption 128- or 192- or 256- bit key length Algorithm

AES-CCM AES with CCM

API Application Programming Interface 

AQI Air Quality Index

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATM Automated Teller Machine 

AWS Amazon Web Services

BB BeagleBone

BI Business Intelligence

BJT Bipolar Junction Transistor

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Bootpc Bootstrap Protocol Client

Bootps Bootstrap Protocol Server

BP Business Process

BT BR Bluetooth Basic data rate in 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 device

BT EDR Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate

BT LE Bluetooth Low Energy

CA Certification Authority

CAN Controller Area Network bus

CAP Consistency, Availability and Partitions

CBC Cryptographic Block Cipher for block ciphers with a block length of 

128 bits

CCD Charge Coupled Device 

CCM Counter with CBC-MAC

CEP Complex Event Processing

CGA Cryptographically Generated Addresses 

CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing 

CIMD Computer Interface to Message Distribution

CoAP Constrained Application Protocol

CORE Constrained RESTful Environment

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRM Customer Relations Management

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

CUP Connected Universe Platform

CVS Concurrent Versions System

CWI Cloud Web Interface

DAG Directed Acrylic Graph

DB Database

DBMS Database Management System

DBP Distributed Business Process

DFG Data Flow Graph

DHCP Dynamic Host Control Protocol 

DLL Dynamically Linked Library

DM Device Management

DNS Domain Name System

DODAG Destination Oriented Directed Acrylic Graph

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DoS Denial-of-Service

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSP Digital Signal Processor

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum 

DTLS Datagram Transport Layer Security

DWI Device Web Interface

ECU Electronic Control Unit

EPC Electronic Product Code

ESP Event Stream Processing

ETL Extract, Transform and Load 

FC Functional Component 

FG Functional Group

FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum 

FOTA Firmware Over-The-Air

FPT Phototransistor

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GPIO General Purpose Input-Output

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GSM Global System for Mobiles

HAB Home Automation Bus

HAN Home Area Network

HDFS Hadoop File System

HLR Home Location Register 

HSPA High Speed Packet Access

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTPS HTTP over TLS/SSL

I/O Input-Output

I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit 

IaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service

IANA Internet Assigned Number Authority 

ICCM Internet Connected Car Maintenance 

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol

ICSP In-Circuit Serial Programming 

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ICT Information and Communications Technology

IDE Integrated Development Environment

IdM Identity Management

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission for Standards

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IFTTT If This Then That service

IIC Industrial Internet Consortium 

IIoT Industrial IoT

IM Instant Messaging

IO Input-Output

IoT Internet of Things

IP Internet Protocol

IPSec IP Security Protocol

IPSP Internet Protocol Support Profile 

IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 

iq Information/Query

IR-LED Infrared Light Emitting Diode

ISDN Integrated Services Data Network 

ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical

ISO International Organization for Standardization

JAR Java Archive

JID Jabber ID 

JMS Java Message Service

JSON Java Script Object Notation

KPI Key Performance Indicators

LAN Local Area Network (of Computers)

LED Light Emitting Diode

LIDAR Light + Radar, also Laser Imaging, Detection and Ranging

LIN Local Interconnect Network Bus

LLN Low Power Lossy Networks

LoRaWAN Low-power and Range WAN

LPWAN Low-power WAN

LTE Long Term Evolution

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LWM2M Lightweight M2M Protocol

LWT Last Will and Testament on failure of a session, for example, between 

a client and broker or server

M2M Machine-to-Machine

MAC Media Access Control 

mDNS Multicast Domain Name System

MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Sensor 

MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations Per Second 

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MINA Multi-Hop Infrastructure Network Architecture 

MIPS Million Instructions Per Second 

MMC Multimedia Card

MO Mobile Origin 

MOSFET Metal-oxide Field Effect Transistor

MOST Media Oriented System Transport

Mote Mobile Terminal

MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching

MPP Massively Parallel Processing

MQ Message Queue

MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport protocol

MS Mobile Station

MSISDN Mobile Station ISDN Number

MT Mobile Terminal 

MTC Machine Type Communication

MTU Maximum Transmission Unit 

MUT Multi-User Chat

NAN Neighbourhood Area Network

ND Neighbour Discovery

NDP Network Discovery Protocol 

NFC Near Field Communication

NFV Network Function Virtualization

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information 

Standards

ODBC Open Database Connectivity

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OID Object Identifier

OLAP On-Line Analytical Processing 

OLTP On-Line Transactions Processing 

OMA Open Mobile Alliance

ONS Object Name Service

ORCHID Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifier

OS Operating System

OSGi Open Services Gateway initiative

OWASP Open Web Application Security Project

P2P Point-to-Point 

PaaS platform-as-a-service

PAN Personal Area Network

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDU Protocol Data Unit for a layer

PII Personally Identifiable Information 

PKI Public Key Infrastructure

PPP Point-to-Point Protocol 

PS Participatory Sensing

PSK Pre-Shared Key

pubsub Publication by a service and subscription by end point or client or 

server

PWM Pulse Width Modulator

QoS Quality of Service

QR code Quick Response code

RAM Random Access Memory 

RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RDMS Relational Database Management System

REST Representational State Transfer

RF Radio Frequency of MHz

RFC IETF Request for Comments standardisation document

RFD Reduced Function Device

RFIC RF Integrated Circuits

RFID Radio Frequency Identification

ROLL Routes Over the Low power and Lossy network

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ROM Read Only Memory 

RPC Remote Procedure Call

RPi Raspberry Pi 

RPK Random Pair-wise Keys, Raw-Public-key

RPL IPv6 Routing Protocol for LLNs (Low Power Lossy Networks)

RPM Revolution per Minute

RPMP Re-Planning Manufacturing Process

RTC Real Time Clock

RTOS Real Time Operating System

Rx Receiver

RxD Receiver Data line

SaaS Software as a Service

SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition 

SCL Serial Clock

SCOVARS Supply Chain Order Verification, Automated Reordering and 

Shipping

SD Service Discovery 

SDA Serial Data

SDK Software Development Kit

SHA Secure Hash Algorithm

SIM Subscriber Identity Module (generally a card) in mobile

SLA Service Level Agreement

SMPP Short Message Peer to Peer

SMS Short Message Service 

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol 

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

SPI Serial Peripheral Interface Bus

SPINS Security Protocols in Network of Sensors

SQL Structured Query Language

SS7 Signaling Service Protocol 

SSID Service Set Identifier

SSL Secure Scoket Layer

STP Spanning Tree Protocol 

SWE Sensor Web Enablement services

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TCCICDD Tracking of Customer Carrying Internet Connected Digital Devices

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCUP TCS Connected Universe Platform

TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TLS Transport Layer Security

TLS Transport Layer Security

TLV Tag Length Value

TSDB Time Series Database 

TTP Trusted Third Party 

Tx Transmitter

TxD Transmitter Data line

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter

UCP/UMI Universal Computer Interface Protocol/Machine Interface

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UI User Interface

UPC Universal Product Code

URI Universal Resource Identifier

URL Universal Resource Locator

USB Universal Serial Bus

V2I Vehicle to Infrastructure Communication 

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network 

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

WAN Wide Area Network

WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy 

WIDL Web Interface Definition Language

Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity 

WLAN Wireless 802.11 Local Area Network

WPA Wireless Protected Access

WSAPI WebSocket Application Programming Interface

WSN Wireless Sensor Node/Network

WWAN Wireless Wide Area Network

XAAS Everything-as-a-Service 

xep XMPP Extension Protocol

XHTML EXtensible HyperText Markup Language

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XML EXtensible Markup Language

XMPP EXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

XMPP-IoT XMPP xeps for the IoT/M2M 

XSF XMPP Standards Foundation