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 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cloud API, Cloud Authentication API, Cloud Users API, and 2 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 26 more developer resources.
The Afero Cloud API is the RESTful control plane for the Afero IoT platform. It lists the devices and users on an Afero account, reports real-time device state (connection, RSSI...
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 t...
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 i...
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, connectabl...
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 p...
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: '0.20'
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:cloud-api
name: Afero Cloud API
description: The Afero Cloud API is the RESTful control plane for the Afero IoT platform. It lists the devices and users
on an Afero account, reports real-time device state (connection, RSSI, location, attribute values), executes attribute
read and write actions against connected devices, and manages the over-the-air firmware pipeline — firmware types, the
partner firmware pool, binary upload, device-type associations, firmware tags and firmware pushes. All calls are made
over TLS to https://api.afero.io and authenticated with an OAuth 2.0 bearer access token.
humanURL: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CloudAPIs/
baseURL: https://api.afero.io
tags:
- Devices
- Firmware
- Over-the-Air Updates
- Internet of Things
- OAuth
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/_original/afero-cloud-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CloudAPIs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-DeviceEndpoints/
- type: Authentication
url: https://afero-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API-OAuthEndpoints/
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/afero-cloud-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
url: agentic-access/afero-agentic-access.yml
- 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
- 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:
- 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: 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
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x-enrichment:
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