Subject: [T2TRG] Does each iot device need an API ?

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:29:17 +0800

Dear folks

I have noticed that with the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), standards-developing organizations (including T2TRG) have done or are doing a tremendous amount of work to standardize interfaces (such as RESTful API) to simplify connection to internet. 
But in my opinion, in some scenarios, IoT users do not need to directly remote-control their IoT devices respectively. For example, in home network, a person may remote-control many IoT devices such as TV, refrigerator, water-heater, etc. through internet. Does need access them respectively with different protocols and policies? Need a home gateway or a access point to simplify implementation and network configuration? 
I mean all the IoT devices in house connect to the gateway and IoT users can remote-control these IoT devices through accessing gateway. Actually, some existing intelligent home system have followed this way. So need we do some work to simplify the interoperability between the IoT devices and the gateway?

Xiaowei