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
x-forge-listing: https://forgeglobal.com/afero_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 30
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