Afero

Afero, Inc. is a Los Altos, California IoT platform company founded in 2014 by Joe Britt and Shin Matsumura. Afero ships an end-to-end connected-product stack: ASR secure radio modules with a hardware root of trust and an embedded Hardware Security Module, the afLib MCU libraries and Secure Linux Device SDK for firmware, a Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi onboarding path, the Afero Profile Editor low-code device-modeling tool, Java (Android) and Swift (iOS) mobile SDKs with a Softhub, and the Afero Cloud — a RESTful API at api.afero.io that lists accounts and devices, reports real-time device state, executes attribute read and write actions on connected devices, and drives the over-the-air firmware pipeline. Afero has raised $73.2M from investors including Samsung Catalyst Fund and Crosspoint Capital Partners and reports millions of deployed devices across 200+ product categories in consumer, enterprise and industrial markets.

Afero publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cloud Authentication API, Cloud Users API, Cloud Devices API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Internet of Things, IoT Platform, Connected Devices, and Device Management.

Afero’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, developer console, support, engineering blog, and 27 more developer resources.

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52.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.13.0

4 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Internet of ThingsIoT PlatformConnected Devices Device Management Firmware Over-the-Air Updates Bluetooth Low EnergyEmbedded SecurityHardware

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scored 2026-08-24 · rubric v0.13.0

Composite quality — 52.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 11.2 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.2 / 11

Contract Governance 1.7 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 4

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

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Console

Console

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

Authentication

SecurityTxt

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ReleaseNotes

ReleaseNotes

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

WhitePapers

WhitePapers

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: afero
name: Afero
description: 'Afero, Inc. is a Los Altos, California IoT platform company founded in 2014 by Joe Britt and Shin Matsumura.
  Afero ships an end-to-end connected-product stack: ASR secure radio modules with a hardware root of trust and an embedded
  Hardware Security Module, the afLib MCU libraries and Secure Linux Device SDK for firmware, a Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi
  onboarding path, the Afero Profile Editor low-code device-modeling tool, Java (Android) and Swift (iOS) mobile SDKs with
  a Softhub, and the Afero Cloud — a RESTful API at api.afero.io that lists accounts and devices, reports real-time device
  state, executes attribute read and write actions on connected devices, and drives the over-the-air firmware pipeline. Afero
  has raised $73.2M from investors including Samsung Catalyst Fund and Crosspoint Capital Partners and reports millions of
  deployed devices across 200+ product categories in consumer, enterprise and industrial markets.'
image: https://cdn.afero.io/social/afero_logo_114x114.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/afero/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Internet of Things
- IoT Platform
- Connected Devices
- Device Management
- Firmware
- Over-the-Air Updates
- Bluetooth Low Energy
- Embedded Security
- Hardware
apis:
- aid: afero:authentication-api
  name: Afero Cloud Authentication API
  description: The OAuth 2.0 token endpoint for the Afero Cloud. A partner authenticates with HTTP Basic using the OAuth Client
    ID and Client Secret issued in the Afero Profile Editor, posts the end-user credentials with grant_type=password, and
    receives a bearer access token (scope "partner account") that expires in approximately four hours and is sent on every
    subsequent Afero Cloud API request.
  humanURL: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-OAuthEndpoints/
  baseURL: https://api.afero.io
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Security
  tags_raw:
  - Authentication
  - OAuth
  - Security
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/afero-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-OAuthEndpoints/
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/afero-authentication-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: afero:users-api
  name: Afero Cloud Users API
  description: 'The Afero Cloud Users API returns the profile of the authenticated end-user: the Afero accounts the user can
    access and the privileges held on each, the sign-in credential and its verification state, any partner accounts and partner
    privileges (invite users, manage device profiles, view device info), and the user, developer and general terms-of-service
    versions accepted or awaiting acceptance.'
  humanURL: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-UserEndpoints/
  baseURL: https://api.afero.io
  tags:
  - User
  - Account
  - Identity
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  - Accounts
  - Identity
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/afero-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-UserEndpoints/
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/afero-users-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: afero:devices-api
  name: Afero Cloud Devices API
  description: The Afero Cloud Devices API lists the devices linked to an Afero account and, via the expansions query parameter,
    returns device state (available, visible, connected, connectable, linked, RSSI, location), system and partner device tags,
    or the raw device attribute values. It also executes asynchronous attribute_read and attribute_write actions against a
    device by attribute ID with hexadecimal little-endian payloads, and updates a device friendly name.
  humanURL: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-DeviceEndpoints/
  baseURL: https://api.afero.io
  tags:
  - Devices
  - Device Management
  - Internet of Things
  - Telemetry
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/afero-devices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-DeviceEndpoints/
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/afero-devices-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/afero-read-device-state.md
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/afero-control-a-device.md
- aid: afero:ota-api
  name: Afero Cloud OTA Firmware API
  description: The Afero Over-the-Air (OTA) Update API lets a partner drive firmware releases from their own CI/CD pipeline
    instead of the OTA Manager web application. It creates and updates partner firmware types, creates firmware records in
    the partner firmware pool, uploads firmware binaries to a temporary location and moves them into the permanent repository,
    checks whether a name and version already exists, associates pool images with device types to make them OTA-eligible,
    lists and filters firmware images with tag filtering and paging, pushes an image to a specific device, dissociates an
    image from a device type, and lists firmware tags.
  humanURL: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-OTAEndpoints/
  baseURL: https://api.afero.io
  tags:
  - Firmware
  - Over-the-Air Updates
  - Device Management
  - Deployment
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/afero-ota-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-OTAEndpoints/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-OTAEndpoints-Funcs/
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/afero-ota-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/afero-publish-firmware-ota.md
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/afero-audit-firmware-fleet.md
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/afero-mcp.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/afero-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/afero-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/afero-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/afero-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.afero.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CloudAPIs/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Tutorials/
- type: Console
  url: https://console.afero.io/
- type: Login
  url: https://console.afero.io/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.afero.io/html/home/contact-afero.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/aferodeveloper
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.afero.io/html/home/news.html
- type: WhitePapers
  url: https://www.afero.io/html/home/whitepapers.html
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cdn.afero.io/tos/developer/v1/developer.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.afero.io/html/home/privacy.html
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/afero
- type: Packages
  url: packages/afero-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/afero-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/afero-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/afero-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/afero-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/afero-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/afero-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/afero-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/afero-changelog.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/afero-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/afero-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://afero.io/html/home/VDP.html
- type: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/RelNotes/
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/afero-cloud-api-overlay.yaml
x-forge-listing: https://forgeglobal.com/afero_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 30
  pass: local-v1

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