Abstract: Systems and methods for communication between sensors and a cloud-based service are disclosed. The cloud-based service is configured to parse a message from the network-enabled device into one or more message elements, to obtain input related to selected message elements of the one or more message elements, and to generate an output format according to a message definition that includes the selected message elements. The cloud-based service is further configured to expose an application program interface for transmission of the message received from the network-enabled device according to the output format to one or more applications consuming the application program interface.