The Internet of Things (IoT) expands the connectivity associated with mobile phones and tablets to a range of products—from home appliances to vehicles to industrial machinery and beyond. IoT makes it possible to enhance the experience customers have with products by using connectivity to deliver a wealth of new features and services. Most companies are likely to find IoT’s learning curve to be unusually steep, so there will be an urgent need for technologies that can simplify the deployment of IoT solutions. The application programming interface (API) will be a key IoT technology because APIs simplify the process of integrating services and building powerful, lightweight apps. To learn more about the role of APIs in IoT, watch this video, “APIs and IoT” – http://cainc.to/ET3FWP To learn more about API Management, read this eBook, “Five Pillars of API Management”— http://cainc.to/OpoaSu To learn more about Mobile App Services, visit this website, “CA Mobile App Services” – http://cainc.to/WuQdpb

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Four Ways APIs Enable the
Internet of Things

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Into the IoT age
Unless you’ve been living off-
grid, you’ve likely heard about
the huge impact the Internet
of Things (IoT) will have on
our jobs and lives over the
coming years.
IoT expands the connectivity
associated with mobile
phones and tablets to a
range of products—from
home appliances to vehicles
to industrial machinery
and beyond.
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The IoT opportunity
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Many companies are aware that IoT
presents great opportunities but far
fewer seem really clear about precisely
what these opportunities look like in
the real world.
For those in the know, IoT makes it
possible to enhance the experience
customers have with products by using
connectivity to deliver a wealth of new
features and services.

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Four key benefits of IoT
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In a recent article for Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter and James E.
Heppelmann outlined four ways IoT can be used to enhance products and services:
Companies monitoring usage and performance in detail1
Customers remotely controlling complex functions
Systems optimizing the customer experience
Products and services automating their own functions and upkeep
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The Role of APIs in IoT
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Most companies
are likely to find IoT’s
learning curve to be
unusually steep, so
there will be an urgent
need for technologies
that can simplify
the deployment of
IoT solutions.
The application programming
interface (API) will be a key IoT
technology because APIs
simplify the process of integrating
services and building powerful,
lightweight apps.

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Monitor1
Monitoring products
and services via IoT
will require devices
to send messages to
a variety of recipients,
ranging all the way
from customers’ cell
phones to companies’
big data stores.
APIs will make this possible by
creating integration points between
connected devices and the various
apps, databases and other systems
they report to.
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Control2
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In many use cases (e.g. remote
unlocking of car doors), customer
control of connected products will
happen via a mobile app or an app
embedded in a connected device.
The quickest way to build an app that
controls an existing device or service
is to create an API that gives
developers access to that device
or service’s technical backend.

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Optimize3
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Optimizing a connected device or IoT
service is dependent on capturing
data on usage and performance, then
parsing that information into
something actionable.
APIs provide the simplest way to drive
device information into big data stores
and they also simplify the process
of creating meaningful views of the
collected data.

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Automate4
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The monitoring, control
and optimization
functionality made
possible by APIs will
be essential to enabling
autonomous operation
of connected products
and IoT services.
Even though these connected
systems will be able to function
without much human intervention,
they will have to continuously
interface with external systems,
via APIs.

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Connectivity challenges
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Using APIs to connect large
numbers of devices
inherently creates serious
security and interoperability
challenges at the device and
API levels.
Further challenges arise
around the difficulty of
creating apps that securely
transmit and collect data
on a vast number of
messages in emerging,
device-friendly formats.

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Smart solutions
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Many security and interoperability
challenges associated with IoT
can be addressed by deploying
a full-featured, enterprise-grade
API Management solution.
The specific challenges associated
with passing messages between
devices in an IoT context can
be tackled using Mobile App
Services technology.

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Learn more
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To learn more about
the role of APIs in IoT,
watch this video.
APIs and IoT
To learn more about
API Management, read
this eBook.
Five Pillars of API
Management
To learn more about
Mobile App Services,
visit this website.
CA Mobile App Services
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