Nortech

Nortech AI is an industrial IoT and operational-data infrastructure company (Bergen, Norway and Lisbon, Portugal) serving the maritime market and other asset-heavy industries. Its edge-plus-cloud platform extracts high-frequency data directly from industrial machinery, equipment and control systems — across vendors, protocols and equipment age — and structures it into trustworthy, contextualized signals for data-driven decision-making. The Nortech Cloud API exposes a Metadata API (workspaces, assets, divisions, units, signals), a Signal Data API (historical, live and import) and a Deriver API for computed virtual signals, plus an MQTT live-data stream.

Nortech publishes 13 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Asset API, Deriver API, Division API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Company, Industrial IoT, IIoT, Maritime, and Operational Data.

The Nortech catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Nortech’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, authentication, and 23 more developer resources.

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44.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs

Company Industrial IoT IIoT Maritime Operational Data Time Series Sensors Data Infrastructure

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Composite quality — 44.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.6 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 10.6 / 18

Access Clarity 5.2 / 18

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 12

Contract Governance 2.0 / 11

Discoverability 6.8 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 27/100 · 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 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 13

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

Nortech Asset API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Assets` metadata.

Nortech Deriver API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to create and manage `Derivers`.

Nortech Division API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Divisions` metadata.

Nortech Health API

The Health API from Nortech — 1 operation(s) for health.

Nortech Historical Data API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to retrieve raw `Signal` Data for a specified period. The data requested is compiled into a file that you can download posteriorly.

Nortech Import Data API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to import signal data.

Nortech Live Data API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to retrieve live data.

Nortech Me API

The Me API from Nortech — 1 operation(s) for me.

Nortech MQTT Live Data API

This API provides endpoints to configure the Nortech AI Live API by selecting signals to be exported as MQTT messages. Data can then be consumed from `mqtts://live.data.apps.nor...

Nortech Signal API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Signals` metadata.

Nortech Unit API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Units` metadata.

Nortech Workspace API

This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Workspaces` metadata.

Nortech Historical Data API

The historicalData API from Nortech — 0 operation(s) for historicaldata.

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Open Collections 13

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Deriver API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Division API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Historical Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Import Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Live Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Me API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset MQTT Live Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Signal API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Unit API

OPEN COLLECTION

Nortech Asset Workspace API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Nortech Live Data (MQTT)

Real-time signal data streamed over MQTT-over-TLS. Subscribe to per-signal topics after creating a Data Connection through the HTTP API.

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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

Nortech Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Nortech Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Nortech Agentic Access

50 operations · 19 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

APIReference

OpenAPI

AsyncAPI

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Webhooks

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nortech
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/nortech.png
name: Nortech
description: Nortech AI is an industrial IoT and operational-data infrastructure company (Bergen, Norway and Lisbon, Portugal)
  serving the maritime market and other asset-heavy industries. Its edge-plus-cloud platform extracts high-frequency data
  directly from industrial machinery, equipment and control systems — across vendors, protocols and equipment age — and structures
  it into trustworthy, contextualized signals for data-driven decision-making. The Nortech Cloud API exposes a Metadata API
  (workspaces, assets, divisions, units, signals), a Signal Data API (historical, live and import) and a Deriver API for computed
  virtual signals, plus an MQTT live-data stream.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nortech/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- earlybird
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-public-developer-surface
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Industrial IoT
- IIoT
- Maritime
- Operational Data
- Time Series
- Sensors
- Data Infrastructure
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: nortech:nortech-asset-api
  name: Nortech Asset API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Assets` metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Asset
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-asset-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-deriver-api
  name: Nortech Deriver API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to create and manage `Derivers`.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Deriver
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-deriver-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-division-api
  name: Nortech Division API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Divisions` metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Division
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-division-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-health-api
  name: Nortech Health API
  description: The Health API from Nortech — 1 operation(s) for health.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-historical-data-api
  name: Nortech Historical Data API
  description: "This API includes endpoints that allow you to retrieve raw `Signal` Data for a specified period. \n      The\
    \ data requested is compiled into a file that you can download posteriorly."
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Historical Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-historical-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-import-data-api
  name: Nortech Import Data API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to import signal data.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Import Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-import-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-live-data-api
  name: Nortech Live Data API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to retrieve live data.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Live Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-live-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-me-api
  name: Nortech Me API
  description: The Me API from Nortech — 1 operation(s) for me.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Me
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-me-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-mqtt-live-data-api
  name: Nortech MQTT Live Data API
  description: "This API provides endpoints to configure the Nortech AI Live API by selecting signals to be exported as MQTT\
    \ messages. Data can then be consumed from `mqtts://live.data.apps.nor.tech` at topics with structure `<format>/workspaces/<workspaceId>/assets/<assetId>/divisions/<divisionId>/units/<unitId>/signals/<signalId>`\
    \ where `<format>` is one of `json` or `protobuf`. At the moment, the single-level wildcard (+) is not supported.\n\n\
    ### Protobuf Schema\n\n```\n  syntax = \"proto3\";\n\n  message DataPoint {\n      uint64 timestamp = 1;\n      oneof\
    \ value {\n          bool bool_value = 2;\n          double double_value = 3;\n          string string_value = 4;\n  \
    \    }\n  }\n```"
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - MQTT Live Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-mqtt-live-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-signal-api
  name: Nortech Signal API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Signals` metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Signal
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-signal-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-unit-api
  name: Nortech Unit API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Units` metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Unit
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-unit-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-workspace-api
  name: Nortech Workspace API
  description: This API includes endpoints that allow you to interact with `Workspaces` metadata.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Workspace
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-workspace-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- aid: nortech:nortech-historicaldata-api
  name: Nortech Historical Data API
  description: The historicalData API from Nortech — 0 operation(s) for historicaldata.
  humanURL: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
  baseURL: https://api.apps.nor.tech
  tags:
  - Historical Data
  tags_raw:
  - historicalData
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nortech-historicaldata-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/intro
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/intro
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/cloud-apis-sdks-http-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.apps.nor.tech/intro-get-started-data-extraction
- type: Website
  url: https://nortech.ai
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Nortech-ai
- type: Support
  url: https://nortech.ai/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://nortech.ai/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://nortech.ai/privacy-policy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://nortech.ai/security/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/nortech-openapi-original.json
- type: Packages
  url: packages/nortech-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/nortech-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nortech-authentication.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/nortech-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nortech-domain-security.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/nortech-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nortech-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nortech-well-known.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/nortech-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nortech-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/nortech-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/nortech-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/nortech-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/nortech-data-model.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/nortech-live-data-asyncapi.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

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