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Eaton

Eaton Corporation plc (NYSE: ETN) is a global intelligent-power-management company with operations across electrical, aerospace, vehicle, and eMobility segments. Its digital surface centers on Brightlayer — a software portfolio for data centers, utilities, industrial, buildings, and mobility — together with a developer program that exposes REST APIs for smart breakers, EV chargers, ambient monitoring, demand response, PDUs, and Brightlayer Operations Insight. Eaton is a strategic partner to NVIDIA on the Beam Rubin DSX 800 VDC AI-factory platform and to Autodesk on the Brightlayer Digital Energy Twin.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Eaton the way a machine reads it — 40 machine-readable artifacts across 19 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Eaton scores 56.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 56.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Eaton

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Eaton. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 19

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Eaton EV Smart Breaker Charger API

Subset of the Smart Breaker API surface scoped to Level-2 Green Motion EV charger devices (`hardwareType: ev-emcb`). Adds session-management, charge-control, and EV-specific tel...

Eaton Smart Ambient Monitoring API

Healthcare-targeted subscription API that derives an "Activities of Daily Living" signal for residents of long-term care, assisted-living, and remote-care environments by applyi...

Brightlayer Demand Response Service API

RESTful, HTTP-based API for utilities running Eaton Demand Response Management System (DRMS) programs. Exposes secure operations to interact with, schedule, and curtail Eaton Ce...

Brightlayer Operations Insight APIs

Family of REST APIs that let partners and customers extend the monitoring capabilities of Eaton power infrastructure (UPS, PDU, transfer switches, breakers, meters) into their o...

Brightlayer RESTful API (On-Premise)

RESTful API surface of Brightlayer 8.0 (on-premise platform) covering the unified Power, Distributed IT, DCIM, and EPMS product offerings. Documented in the "Brightlayer RESTful...

Eaton Rack PDU G4 REST API

RESTful API exposed by the Network Management Card (NMC) of Eaton's Rack PDU G4 (formerly Tripp Lite). Lets DCIM systems and IT operators provision outlets, query environmental ...

CI-Data Open API (by WES)

Critical Infrastructure Data (CI-Data) Open API listed on the Brightlayer Experience Hub from solution-partner WES. Provides a RESTful interface to Eaton's Electrical Power Moni...

Brightlayer UI (Design System)

Eaton's open-source design system and component library used to build Brightlayer applications. Ships themes, icons, progress icons, symbols, workflows, Storybook addons, and CL...

Eaton easyE4 JSON API

JSON API on the Eaton easyE4 PLC / control relay that exposes I/O state, NET-IDs, markers, and configuration over HTTP for OT/IT integrations. Documented in the easyE4 JSON API ...

Brightlayer Digital Energy Twin (Autodesk)

AI-powered digital energy twin co-developed with Autodesk that integrates Eaton's Brightlayer energy software with Autodesk Tandem to simulate, monitor, and optimize energy use,...

Eaton Beam Rubin DSX Platform

Eaton + NVIDIA reference architecture announced March 2026 for end-to-end AI-factory deployment on NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform. Bundles supercapacitor-backed power, busbar powe...

Eaton Authorization API

OAuth2 token issuance and user/service-account authentication.

Eaton Device Commands API

Per-device and batch device-control commands.

Eaton Devices API

Smart breakers and EV chargers (emcb, ev-emcb).

Eaton Energy Data API

Real-time and historical energy telemetry.

Eaton EV Only API

Operations supported only by Eaton EV Smart Breaker Chargers.

Eaton Events API

Device events, alarms, and notifications.

Eaton Locations API

Sites, buildings, and panels grouping devices.

Eaton Organizations API

Tenant organizations that own devices and users.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Eaton Smart Breaker API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Eaton Plans Pricing

9 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Eaton Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Eaton Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Eaton Context

40 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Eaton API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Eaton API Rules

6 rules · 3 errors · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ChargingSession

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeviceEvent

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Device

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EnergyReading

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Smart Breaker Device Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 5

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Eaton Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Eaton Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Eaton Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Eaton Agentic Access

15 operations · 4 acting

15 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Eaton — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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