Picking up my colleagues series about the Oracle IoT Cloud, it’s now time to show the core of the product. The API.

Using the UI is all good and well to learn the product, understand what it can do and what it can’t and how it works. But no system administrator wants to add 40.000 sensors one at a time and enter its serial number, vendor ID, manufacturer and Lat/Lon data by hand. This is where the REST API comes in. Sensors can be manufactured, their data digitally transferred from the manufacturer to the buyer and can then be automatically imported into the IoT Cloud using a given set of API’s.

Let’s first look at the general structure of the REST API.