Use Case

IoT, Devices & Edge Computing

Connecting devices and processing data at the edge.

36 providers 660 APIs 24 declared variants

Operating device fleets — onboarding and provisioning, telemetry ingestion, firmware updates — and running the local compute, gateways, and buffering that keep processing close to the sensor.

36 API providers on the APIs.io network offer iot, devices & edge computing. The highest-rated are Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon DynamoDB, Verizon, Azure Kubernetes Service.

Providers

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

Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform enables developers to build, test, and deploy applications on Google's highly-scalabl... 7 APIs 81.1 Amazon Keyspaces Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra-compa... 2 APIs 73.1 Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance wi... 5 APIs 72.0 Verizon Verizon is a leading telecommunications company providing wireless, wireline, broadband, and global enterpr... 18 APIs 69.0 Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) simplifies deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure by offloading the... 7 APIs 67.6
Strong 8 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon Snow Family AWS Snow Family is a collection of physical devices and capacity points that help customers with data trans... 27 APIs 65.8 Amazon FreeRTOS Amazon FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes it easy to pr... 3 APIs 65.3 Apple Collection of Apple's public APIs and developer resources. 21 APIs 64.1 Amazon IoT Core AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud... 70 APIs 62.9 Amazon IoT Device Management AWS IoT Device Management makes it easy to securely onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage your Io... 69 APIs 62.9 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Collection of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) REST APIs for managing cloud resources and services. 25 APIs 61.0 OpenShift A comprehensive API definition for Red Hat OpenShift, the enterprise Kubernetes platform. 31 APIs 58.5 SAP HANA APIs for SAP HANA, an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marke... 17 APIs 58.1
Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Microsoft Azure Cloud A comprehensive collection of Microsoft Azure cloud service APIs covering compute, storage, databases, AI, ... 13 APIs 55.9 Amazon DynamoDB A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalabi... 14 APIs 55.4 DreamFactory Automate the building, securing, and documenting of REST APIs for data products with built-in enterprise se... 16 APIs 55.4 AT&T AT&T Inc. is a multinational telecommunications conglomerate providing wireless and wireline communications... 12 APIs 55.3 AT&T AT&T Inc. is a multinational telecommunications holding company providing wireless and wireline communicati... 28 APIs 50.5 Aruba APIs for HPE Aruba Networking cloud networking, security, and infrastructure solutions including Central, A... 11 APIs 49.8 Akamai Akamai is a global content delivery network (CDN), cloud services, and cybersecurity company that helps org... 204 APIs 49.0 Apache CouchDB Apache CouchDB is an open-source distributed document-oriented NoSQL database governed by the Apache Softwa... 9 APIs 47.7 Apache Geode Apache Geode is an in-memory data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-in... 5 APIs 47.3 Apache Flink Apache Flink is a framework and distributed processing engine for stateful computations over unbounded and ... 10 APIs 45.6 Apache ActiveMQ Apache ActiveMQ is an open-source, high-performance message broker written in Java, developed by the Apache... 4 APIs 42.4
Thin 7 Limited public surface area
Akri Akri is a CNCF Sandbox project that exposes heterogeneous leaf devices (such as IP cameras and USB devices)... 1 API 41.5 AMQP AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) is an open standard for message-oriented middleware governed by OA... 1 API 41.3 BLE Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), also known as Bluetooth Smart, is a wireless personal area network technology d... 3 APIs 37.9 Apache OpenWhisk Apache OpenWhisk is an open-source serverless cloud platform that executes functions in response to events ... 6 APIs 37.1 Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor was a US-based semiconductor company known for its PSoC programmable system-on-chip m... 6 APIs 37.0 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an enterprise automation solution that provides a framework for buil... 4 APIs 35.4 Analog Devices Analog Devices (ADI) is a global semiconductor company designing high-performance analog, mixed-signal, and... 3 APIs 32.9
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Apache MINA Apache MINA is a network application framework that helps develop high-performance and high-scalability net... 3 APIs 23.0
Minimal 4 Almost no public developer surface
Bosch Bosch is a German multinational engineering and technology company producing automotive components, industr... 5 APIs 12.1 Belden Belden Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets networking, connectivity, and cable products and solutions f... 10.8 Binary Format Binary format refers to data encoding and serialization methods that use binary rather than text representa... 7.5 American Tower American Tower Corporation is one of the largest global REITs and a leading independent owner, operator, an... 5.5

What Providers Actually Declared

This use case is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

Connected IoT DevicesDisconnected Edge ComputingEdge ComputingEdge Computing DeploymentEdge IoT Device ManagementEnterprise Device ManagementIIoT Device IntegrationIndustrial IoTIndustrial IoT SensorsIoT Data AggregationIoT Data CollectionIoT Data ProcessingIoT Data StorageIoT Data TransmissionIoT Device CommunicationIoT Device ManagementIoT Device OnboardingIoT Firmware UpdatesIoT MessagingIoT and Edge ComputingIot and Device ManagementOTA Firmware UpdatesRemote Device ManagementSecure IoT Devices

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