Internet of Things
An index and topic collection covering consumer and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, smart home ecosystems, connected device APIs, and the messaging and edge protocols that bind them together. This collection focuses on cloud IoT services such as AWS IoT Core, smart home and connected device platforms like Google Nest, Tuya, IFTTT, and Reolink, MQTT brokers like HiveMQ and Mosquitto, edge runtimes like KubeEdge and LF Edge, and the standards and SDKs that connect millions of devices to APIs every day. Distinct from the Industrial topic, which focuses on OT and manufacturing systems.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Internet of Things the way a machine reads it — 31 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Internet of Things scores 9.5/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
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How we profile Internet of Things
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Internet of Things. 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.
Features 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Device Identity and Provisioning
IoT platforms issue per-device credentials, X.509 certificates, and identities so connected devices can authenticate to cloud services and to each other across the network.
MQTT and Pub/Sub Messaging
Lightweight publish/subscribe messaging via MQTT, CoAP, and similar protocols is the dominant pattern for moving telemetry from constrained devices to cloud backends.
Device Shadows and State Synchronization
Cloud IoT services maintain a virtual representation (shadow or twin) of each device that mirrors and synchronizes desired and reported state across intermittent connectivity.
Rules Engines and Telemetry Routing
IoT platforms include rules engines that filter, transform, and route incoming telemetry to databases, analytics services, notification channels, and downstream APIs.
Over-the-Air (OTA) Firmware Updates
Connected device platforms offer managed OTA firmware update delivery, rollout orchestration, and rollback for fleets ranging from a few units to millions.
Edge Computing and Local Runtimes
Runtimes like AWS Greengrass, KubeEdge, and LF Edge push compute, ML inference, and message brokering to gateways and devices for low-latency local control.
Smart Home Integration and Automation
Smart home platforms expose device APIs and event triggers that enable cross-vendor automation, voice control, and consumer-facing routines like "good morning" or geofenced acti...
Long-Range Low-Power Connectivity
LoRaWAN, cellular IoT, and similar long-range low-power networks connect battery-powered sensors and trackers that operate for years on a single charge.
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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.
Internet Of Things Context
JSON-LDJSON Schema 2
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.
Device
JSON SCHEMATelemetryEvent
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 2
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.
Internet Of Things Device Structure
JSON STRUCTUREInternet Of Things Telemetry Event Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 2
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.
Use Cases 8
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Smart Home Automation
Consumers connect lights, locks, cameras, thermostats, and voice assistants through platforms like Google Nest, Tuya, and IFTTT to create cross-device routines and remote control.
Connected Camera and Security
Platforms like Reolink and Neolink expose APIs for live video, motion events, and recording management so security cameras can be integrated into broader home and business workf...
Fleet and Asset Tracking
Commercial IoT platforms like Samsara stream vehicle telemetry, location, and driver behavior to cloud dashboards and APIs for logistics and fleet management.
Industrial-Grade Device Management at Scale
AWS IoT Device Management and similar services let operators register, organize, monitor, and update millions of connected devices through a single API surface.
Real-Time Telemetry Pipelines
MQTT brokers like HiveMQ and Mosquitto, combined with stream processors, ingest billions of telemetry events per day from devices into analytics and storage systems.
Edge AI and Local Inference
Edge runtimes like AWS Greengrass and KubeEdge run ML models close to devices for fast local decisions in industrial cameras, vehicles, and smart appliances.
Connected Mobility and EVs
Vehicle platforms and OEM APIs expose location, charging, and diagnostic data for electric vehicles and connected cars, enabling routing, charging, and maintenance integrations.
Event-Driven Consumer Automation
IFTTT and similar platforms let consumers wire IoT devices to web APIs through if-this-then-that recipes that span dozens of vendors and services.
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Integrations 8
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
AWS IoT Core
Managed cloud service that brokers MQTT, HTTPS, and WebSocket connections from devices and routes messages to AWS services through a rules engine.
HiveMQ
Enterprise-grade MQTT broker platform used for connecting millions of IoT devices with extensions for Kafka, security, and observability.
Google Nest
API platform for thermostats, cameras, and doorbells in the Google smart home ecosystem, exposing device state, events, and control.
Tuya
Global IoT platform powering tens of thousands of branded smart home devices through unified cloud APIs and SDKs.
IFTTT
Consumer automation platform that connects IoT devices, web apps, and services through user-authored conditional recipes.
Cisco Meraki
Cloud-managed networking and IoT platform with APIs for cameras, environmental sensors, and Wi-Fi-connected device telemetry.
Samsara
Connected operations platform for vehicles, equipment, and sites with APIs for telemetry, video, and driver safety data.
KubeEdge
Open-source CNCF project extending Kubernetes orchestration to edge nodes and IoT devices for managed edge workloads.
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Resources
Every other property we hold for Internet of Things — 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.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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