# Afero

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/afero/  
**Website:** https://www.afero.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 52.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.4 from 52.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 59.7 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 41.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 25.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (4)

- **Afero Cloud Authentication API** — 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...
- **Afero Cloud Users API** — 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...
- **Afero Cloud Devices API** — 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...
- **Afero Cloud OTA Firmware API** — 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...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Afero MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Afero Agentic Access** — 25 operations · 12 acting

## Security (3)

- **Afero Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Afero Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Afero Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Internet of Things, IoT Platform, Connected Devices, Device Management, Firmware, Over-the-Air Updates, Bluetooth Low Energy, Embedded Security, Hardware

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/afero/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.