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The State of IoT APIs
This market solved interoperability where devices meet networks and left it unsolved where customers and agents meet platforms. The best contracts in the research series; the lowest MCP adoption.
About this report
The State of IoT APIs is about the platform layer — device management, telemetry ingestion, fleet provisioning, connectivity billing — because that is the layer with an API.
861 organisations classified, 165 in the upper three bands. Median Kin Score 51.0, Agent Readiness 40.3. The largest upper band of any section-model report so far, in the most standards-dense market measured.
Eleven protocol standards govern how devices communicate. Not one governs how the platforms are operated — and that is where migration cost, lock-in and the agentic gap all actually live.
What's inside
- Executive summary
- The state of the market
- The resource taxonomy — what this market actually exposes
- The composite Kin Score — and why it is the foundation
- Agent readiness — a separate instrument
- The blueprint — what the leaders satisfy and nobody else does
- The standards layer
- The regulatory layer
- Artifacts for the agentic turn — and the workflow gap
- Security, authentication and scopes
- Provider-by-provider intelligence, and the whole upper band ranked
- The investable thesis
- Coverage and method
- The climb — what moves a company here
- Where this is going
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