List of Acronyms
Some of the Popular Acronyms used in IOT space are documented in this blog post. This list of
various terms is not very exhaustive, but I will keep adding them as and when required.
Internet of Things |
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| HVAC | Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning | |
| MWSN | Mobile Wireless Sensor Network | |
| WSN | Wireless Sensor Network | |
| IoT | Internet of Things | |
| IoE | Internet of Everything | |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services | |
| MitM | Man in the Middle (attack) | |
| MEMS | Micro Electro Mechanical Systems | |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification | |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commision | |
| M2M | Machine to Machine | |
| IP | Internet Protocol | |
| IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 | |
| BPME | Business Process Management Everywhere | |
| EIoT | Enterprise Internet of Things | |
Bluetooth Technology |
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| A2DP | Advanced Audio Distribution Profile | |
| ACL | Asynchronous Connection-Less | |
| ASB | Active Slave Broadcast | |
| ATT | ATTribute protocol | |
| AVCTP | Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol | |
| AVDTP | Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol | |
| AVRCP | Audio/Video Remote Control Profile | |
| BLE/LE | Bluetooth Low Energy / Low Engery (Both terms are used to alternately) | |
| Bluetooth SIG | Bluetooth Special Interest Group | |
| BNEP | Bluetooth Network Encapsulation Protocol | |
| BR/EDR | Basic Rate / Enhanced Data Rate | |
| DUN | Dial-Up Networking | |
| GATT | Generic ATTribute profile | |
| HCI | Host Controller Interface | |
| HCRP | Hard Copy Replacement Profile | |
| HFP | Hands-Free Profile | |
| HID | Human Interface Device | |
| HOGP | HID over GATT Profile | |
| IPSP | Internet Protocol Support Profile | |
| L2CAP | Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol | |
| LC | Link Control (protocol) | |
| LELL | Low Energy Link Layer | |
| LL | Link Layer | |
| LMP | Link Management Protocol | |
| LMP | Link Manager Protocol | |
| OBEX | Object exchange | |
| OPP | Object Push Profile | |
| PANU | Personal Area Network User | |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol | |
| PSB | Parked Slave Broadcast | |
| RFCOMM | Radio frequency communication | |
| RTLS | Real Time Location System | |
| SCO | Synchronous Connection-Oriented | |
| SDP | Service Discovery Protocol | |
| SPP | Serial Port Profile | |
| TCS | Telephony Control Protocol Specification | |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier | |
Wireless Networking |
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| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard | |
| AFH | Adaptive Frequency Hopping | |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access | |
| CSMA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access | |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol | |
| DQPSK | Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying | |
| ECDH | Elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman | |
| FDMA | Frequency Division Multiple Access | |
| GFSK | Gussian Frequency-Shift Keying | |
| ISM Band | Industrial Scientific, and Medical | |
| MAC | Media Access Control | |
| PHY | PHsical laYer | |
| QoS | Quality of Service | |
| SINR | Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio (SINR) (this is also known as the Signal to Noise plus Interference Ratio (SNIR)) | |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio | |
| SSID | Service Set IDentifier | |
| WAE | Wireless Application Environment | |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol | |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Networks | |
| WPAN | Wireless Personal Area Networks | |