| ANSI | American National Standards Institute | |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol | |
| DA | Data attribute | |
| DO | Data object | |
| Ethernet | A standard for connecting a family of frame-based computer networking technologies into a LAN | |
| FC | Functional constraint | |
| FTP | File transfer protocol | |
| GOOSE | Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event | |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission | |
| IEC 61850 | International standard for substation communication and modeling | |
| IED | Intelligent electronic device | |
| LD | Logical device | |
| LHMI | Local human-machine interface | |
| LN | Logical node | |
| MAC | Media access control | |
| PC | 1. Personal computer 2. Polycarbonate |
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| PCM600 | Protection and Control IED Manager | |
| SCL | XML-based system configuration description language defined by IEC 61850 | |
| SLD | Single-line diagram | |
| SMV | Sampled measured values | |
| UAC | User account control | |
| WHMI | Web human-machine interface |