Preface

The Microsoft Azure Internet of Things (IoT) platform is a set of IoT capabilities enabling businesses to build and gain value from IoT solutions quickly and efficiently. As part of their IoT Suite, Microsoft Azure IoT services enable the customers in their IoT journey - whether they are on their journey or looking to scale their IoT solutions, transforming their digital business.

Today, developers are leveraging the power of IoT in building IoT solutions for enterprises by getting started quickly with help from Azure IoT services - a set of open source SDKs, samples, pre-configured solutions, and tools provided by Microsoft Azure.

Azure IoT Hub is an easy and secure way to connect, provision, and manage millions of IoT devices, which are continuously sending and receiving billions of messages per specified or configurable interval. IoT Hub helps the communication between IoT devices and their solutions in the cloud, allowing them to store, analyze, alert, and take action on that data in real time. IoT Hub provides secure, reliable, two-way communication - both device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device - over open protocols such as MQTT, HTTPS, and AMQPS that are commonly used in IoT scenarios.

The aim of this book is to help the developer who wants to connect devices to IoT Hub, manage the IoT Hub service itself, and integrate IoT Hub into their overall IoT solution in the cloud. It discusses how to implement secure IoT solution, and implement IoT analytics scenarios. It also dives into pre-configured solutions, followed by some real device connectivity to explore the capabilities of IoT Hub.