CAMARA is an open-source Linux Foundation project developing standardized, open, and globally-available telecom APIs as part of the Telco Global API Alliance. Founded and supported by AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Nokia, Telefonica, Vodafone, GSMA, and many others, CAMARA defines consistent, operator-agnostic network capability APIs so developers can access programmable network services such as quality-on-demand, device location, SIM swap, number verification, and edge cloud across multiple carriers through a single, unified, standard API surface.
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- Position: Provider
- Access: Open
- Telecom
- Network APIs
- Standards
- Linux Foundation
- Open Gateway
- GSMA
- Connectivity
- 5G
- Created: 2026-03-16
- Modified: 2026-05-19
The Quality On Demand (QoD) API allows applications to request on-demand, bounded-duration, guaranteed-quality network sessions for specific device flows (latency, throughput, priority class). Developers can set QoS profiles, receive events on session state changes, and manage sessions without dealing with operator-specific signalling.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/QualityOnDemand
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/quality-on-demand/v0
- Quality of Service
- Network
- QoD
- 5G
- Documentation
- Repository
- OpenAPI — OpenAPI Specification
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Provides location-verification, location-retrieval, and geofencing subscription endpoints allowing applications to confirm whether a mobile device is in a specified area, to retrieve the last known area the device connected from, and to receive asynchronous notifications when a device enters or leaves a geofenced region — all using operator network data rather than handset GPS.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/DeviceLocation
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/location/v0
- Location
- Geofencing
- Network
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Silent, cryptographically strong verification that the mobile number a user claims to own is actually the number of the SIM attached to the device making the request. Replaces SMS one-time-password flows with an operator-authenticated check over the data connection, reducing fraud and user friction in onboarding and login.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/NumberVerification
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/number-verification/v0
- Identity
- Authentication
- Anti-Fraud
- MSISDN
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Detects whether the SIM attached to a given mobile number has recently been changed. Used by banks, crypto platforms, and other high-assurance services to mitigate SIM-swap account-takeover attacks before sending SMS OTPs or authorizing high-risk transactions.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/SimSwap
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/sim-swap/v0
- Anti-Fraud
- Identity
- Security
- SIM
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Provides queries and event subscriptions about a mobile device's connectivity status (reachable, connected, roaming) so applications can adapt behaviour, trigger retries, or switch channels based on real-time network reachability.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/DeviceStatus
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/device-status/v0
- Connectivity
- Roaming
- Events
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Returns the closest Mobile Edge Cloud (MEC) endpoint for a given device based on operator network topology, allowing edge-native applications to connect to the lowest-latency edge zone without embedding operator- specific logic.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/SimpleEdgeDiscovery
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/simple-edge-discovery/v0
- Edge
- MEC
- Latency
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Lifecycle APIs for deploying, managing, and terminating edge-native application instances across operator Mobile Edge Cloud infrastructure, enabling developers to place workloads close to end users without operator lock-in.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/EdgeApplicationManagement
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/edge-application-management/v0
- Edge
- MEC
- Deployment
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Returns a privacy-preserving identifier for a device associated with a network-attached session, enabling correlation and authentication flows while minimising exposure of raw MSISDNs or IMEIs.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/DeviceIdentifier
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/device-identifier/v0
- Identity
- Privacy
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Extends Quality On Demand semantics to fixed-line / home broadband devices, allowing applications to request guaranteed bandwidth or low-latency sessions for devices attached to a home gateway.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/HomeDevicesQoD
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/home-devices-qod/v0
- Broadband
- Home
- QoS
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Exposes network insight data such as historical and real-time network quality, congestion, and throughput characteristics for a subscriber context, letting applications tune streaming, uploads, and sync behaviour to current network conditions.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/ConnectivityInsights
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/connectivity-insights/v0
- Analytics
- Quality of Service
- Observability
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
Shared authorization and consent model across CAMARA APIs, built on OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication (CIBA) so subscribers explicitly consent to application use of network capabilities such as location, SIM-swap, or QoD on their behalf.
- Human URL: https://github.com/camaraproject/IdentityAndConsentManagement
- Base URL:
https://api.example.com/identity-consent/v0
- OAuth
- CIBA
- Consent
- Identity
- Documentation
- Repository
- Postman Collection — Postman Collection 2.1
- Open Collection — Open Collection 1.0
- Website
- Documentation
- Portfolio
- Git Hub Org
- Governance
- Commonalities
- Release Management
- Linux Foundation Project
- JSON-LD — JSON-LD
- Vocabulary Definition
- Spectral Rules
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