Internet of Things devices aren’t terribly useful without apps and services. Apigee says it can help glue these elements together using APIs.

Makers of connected gadgets like lightbulbs, thermostats and motion detectors know how to build objects that can talk to each other across a room, often through a hub that can corral different types of devices together. But there are a lot more layers of software and communication between that and the Internet, where the rubber really hits the road in terms of making IoT useful.

That’s where Apigee thinks it can fit in. The company specializes in APIs (application programming interfaces), the intermediaries between devices, apps and services from different providers. It already works with many vendors and carriers, including SAP and AT&T, to help them give outside developers access to their back-end platforms. On Tuesday it introduced Apigee Link, a software product specifically for IoT.

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