Azure Internet of Things (IoT)

 

• A service that allows you to connect, monitor, and control one or more IoT devices that can communicate with back-end services hosted in the cloud.

Azure IoT Hub

• A PaaS solution that provides complete control over the collection and processing of IoT data.
• To create a complete end-to-end solution, you can integrate the IoT Hub with other Azure services.
  • Azure Event Grid
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Azure Stream Analytics 
• Message routing integration automatically helps you respond to a device-reported state change.
• You can use IoT Hub scaling if you are approaching the message limit on your IoT Hub.

Azure IoT Central

• A SaaS solution that provides a collection of industry-specific application templates.
• You can create your own device template to define the characteristics and behavior of a device.
• Configure custom dashboards to monitor your device’s health and telemetry.
• Build custom rules when device telemetry crosses a specified threshold.
• You can apply single or bulk updates by creating jobs.

Azure Sphere

• An IoT security solution that helps you protect your data, privacy, and infrastructure.
• Components:
  • Azure Sphere chip – a microcontroller unit that provides real-time processing capabilities.
  • Azure Sphere OS – an operating system based on Linux that runs on an Azure Sphere chip.
  • Azure Sphere Security Service – it supports certificate-based authentication, automatic software updates, and failure reporting. By default, the data is encrypted at rest.
• The Azure Sphere devices can run on two types of applications:
  • High-level applications for containers.
  • Real-time capable applications (RTApps) for bare metals.

Azure IoT Products

• Azure IoT solution accelerators allow you to customize solution templates for common IoT scenarios.
• Azure IoT Edge enables you to deploy cloud analytics and custom business logic locally on IoT edge devices.
• Create knowledge graphs based on digital models of entire environments using Azure Digital Twins.
• If you need to monitor, analyze, and visualize your IoT data in real-time, you can use Azure Time Series Insights.
• Azure Sphere is an IoT security solution that helps you protect your data, privacy, and infrastructure.
• A real-time operating system for IoT devices, powered by MCUs is called Azure RTOS.
• Azure SQL Edge is an optimized SQL database engine for IoT and IoT Edge deployments.