The Tizen IoT API provides a common set of interfaces allowing you to build compelling IoT device applications which achieve native performance. The characteristics include:
- Common set API, which means that the Tizen IoT API is based on the Tizen 4.0 common profile. The API supports the common set of mobile, wearable, and TV profiles and allows you to make IoT applications, such as network audio applications.
- Available platform binaries, which allow you to efficiently create an IoT application. Tizen Common Headed binaries for Raspberry Pi 3 and ARTIK 530 have passed the API test verification, which means that you can create IoT applications with a productive quality.
In Preview 1, the Tizen IoT API releases only the native "C" API. Other convenient language types for the API are to be considered in the future.
The following table lists the IoT-specific Tizen platform API group.
Things SDK API
Developing "Things" which are market-ready (with cloud support) has been a challenge for most of the companies and individual developers. The SmartThings™ Things SDK API helps you to create new IoT devices easily. The version number of the first release is 0.9, which is the preview version.
The 2 core components for creating a new device are:
- SmartThings™ Things JSON Configuration file (
device_definition.json)For more information on the configuration file details, see Device Definition.
- Application logic and user interaction
For more information on using the SmartThings™ Things SDK API, see API Usage.
Figure: Creating a new device

The SmartThings™ (ST) Things SDK provides you an easy and configurable option to build and deploy your own devices quickly:
- The ST Things SDK provides JSON-based things definition, which:
- Defines device and platform information.
- Defines resources that the thing is supporting.
- Defines an easy-setup configuration.
- The ST Things SDK provides spec-agnostic APIs, which:
- Hide the interface and resource type details in a request data.
- Divide a collection resource request into single resource requests.
- Provide the "property_key" in case of the GET request.
The SmartThings™ Things SDK API provides the following benefits for you:
- Supporting pin-based and UserConfirm(Certificate)-based OTM in EasySetup.
- Providing a JSON-based device/resource definition method in a single file:
- Includes Single resource and Collection resource support.
- Resources that are defined in a JSON file/string are made internally.
- Easy APIs to handle requests and responses:
- Supports request methods: GET and POST.
- You only need to make a representation (bundle of property values) for a response.
- You do not need to handle interfaces, as they are handled internally.
- The request to a collection resource is divided into individual requests to single resources.
- Cloud setup (Sign-up/Sign-in/Sign-out/Resource publish to cloud) is handled internally.
- Following operations are handled internally:
- To respond to an Access Point List (APList) request from a client.
- To start and stop softAP.
- To connect to a target WiFi AP (Enroller).
- To make the whole response data according to the interfaces (such as
oic.if.baseline,oic.if.b, andoic.if.ll).

















