• CAN - (Controller Area Network) - A vehicle bus standard designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other’s applications. It is a differential, message-based protocol that uses two wires to communicate

• I2C - (Inter-Integrated Circuit – “I Squared C”) - a synchronous, single-ended, serial communication bus. It is widely used for attaching lower-speed peripheral ICs to processors and microcontrollers in short-distance, intra-board communication. Here is a great video explaining the protocol.

• SPI - (Serial Peripheral Interface – “Spy”) - A synchronous serial communication bus, used primarily in embedded systems for short-distance wired communication between integrated circuits. It uses a Master/Slave architecture where the master controls the clock and uses chip select pins to determine which device to interface with.

• PCB - (Printed Circuit Board) - a medium used to connect or ”wire” components to one another in a circuit. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with a pattern of traces, planes and other features (similar to wires on a flat surface) etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate.

• Telemetry - the on site collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring.

• Embedded Systems - a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.

• LoRa - (Long Range Wide Area Network – “Laura WAN”) - license-free sub-gigahertz radio frequency wireless standard. Used to send small amounts of data over long distances.