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Firmware

Score 17.2 / 100 20 providers +8 via APIs 19 APIs Search apis.io →
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Business capabilities this tag reaches
Information Technology Management 3 Connected Product & Firmware Management 2 Home, Device & Consumer IoT 1

Providers using this tag (20)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
ParticleIoTCellularWi-FiBluetooth2 APIs62.7AvnetFortune 500ElectronicsComponentsSupply Chain23 APIs55.8
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
GoliothIoTDevice ManagementZephyr1 API44.6CesantaCompanyIoTEmbeddedDevice Management1 API49.9
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Red Balloon SecurityCompanySecurityEmbedded Systems27.3AferoCompanyIoTIoT PlatformConnected Devices1 API39.2MemfaultAlertsAndroidCrash ReportingDevice Management1 API33.9ToitCompanySoftware-as-a-ServiceIoTEmbedded33.7AxiadoSemiconductorsHardware SecurityPlatform SecurityData Center1 API31.1BlynkIoTNo-CodeLow-CodeConnected Devices3 APIs28.2
Emerging 7 Early or largely undocumented
OpenBMCHardwareLinux FoundationServers1 API22.4OpenDTUSolarOpen SourceIoT1 API19.5SimanticCompanyEmbedded SystemsHardware Simulation16.8exeinCompanySecurityCybersecurityIoT13.0Microsoft SurfaceDevice ManagementEnterprise ITHardware1 API26.1OpenWrtCompanyOpen SourceRouter1 API25.0KeyboardioCompanyMechanical KeyboardsHardwareErgonomics20.3
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
LinuxBootBootHardwareLinux Foundation2 APIs9.6Assemble LabsCompanyHardware TestingEmbedded Systems5.3JewelbotsCompanyWearablesHardwareIoT3.6

APIs with this tag (19)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Kontakt.io Firmware APIFirmware resources72.6
Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Particle Firmware APIThe Firmware API from Particle — 3 operation(s) for firmware.62.7Cisco Intersight Firmware APIThe firmware API from Cisco Intersight — 64 operation(s) for firmware.60.1ScienceLogic Firmware APISkylar Compliance can act as a repository for device firmware/software, allowing you to upload files like f...56.8Avnet Firmware APIFirmware Api List55.8
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Notecard APIThe Notecard API is the firmware-level JSON API for interacting with Blues Notecard hardware modules direct...48.2Golioth Firmware APIThe Firmware API from Golioth — 1 operation(s) for firmware.44.6Golioth Firmware SDKOpen-source firmware SDK that connects embedded devices to the Golioth cloud over CoAP. Supports Zephyr RTO...44.6Golioth OTA Firmware UpdatesOver-the-air firmware update service. Upload artifacts, group them into releases, target devices by tag or ...44.6Dell Servers Firmware APIFirmware catalog management, compliance, and update operations44.2RomM Firmware APIThe firmware API from RomM — 5 operation(s) for firmware.41.0
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Afero Cloud OTA Firmware APIThe Afero Over-the-Air (OTA) Update API lets a partner drive firmware releases from their own CI/CD pipelin...39.2Axiado SecureStack ADKThe SecureStack Application Development Kit is Axiado's public API for building secure applications on the ...31.1Nine Fives Firmware APIFirmware status and dual-slot (A/B) updates30.4Blynk Device Streaming ProtocolBi-directional low-latency streaming connection protocol used by the Blynk Library and Blynk.Edgent to main...28.2
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Surface Management APIThe Surface Management API provides enterprise management capabilities for Surface devices through UEFI con...26.1OpenBMC APIAPI for interacting with OpenBMC baseboard management controller firmware, providing programmatic access to...22.4RISC-V OpenSBIOpenSBI is the official open-source implementation of the RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) specific...21.7
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
LinuxBoot Build SystemThe LinuxBoot project's build system and tooling for replacing UEFI DXE with a Linux kernel-based boot envi...9.6

Companies reaching this through an API (8)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Firmware” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Blues Cisco Intersight Dell Servers Kontakt.io Nine Fives RISC-V International RomM ScienceLogic

Score breakdown

Frequency
43.0
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
28.4
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Embedded 10 co-occurrences Device Management 10 co-occurrences Device 5 co-occurrences Telemetry 8 co-occurrences Devices 8 co-occurrences IoT 14 co-occurrences Fleet Management 6 co-occurrences Deployment 5 co-occurrences

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