Microsoft Azure IoT platform

The IoT solutions offered by Microsoft Azure are broadly divided into two categories. These are Azure IoT Suite and Azure IoT Hub. IoT solutions, including Azure IoT Suite and Azure IoT Hub, harness the power of our full cloud, data and developer offerings for the enterprise to provide hyper-scale IoT services, rich data and analytics, and deep integration. The IoT Suite is generally used by developers to build custom solutions using IoT SDKs. Microsoft Azure IoT SDK are open source are easily available to download from GitHub. It supports various language like C#, Node.JS, C, and Java. you can use any machine which is capable of development with these technologies.

The Azure IoT offerings are customizable to fit the unique needs of organizations. It will provides finished applications to speed deployment of common scenarios we see across many industries. Some example of such common scenarios are remote monitoring, asset management and predictive maintenance. It can grow and scale solutions to millions of things. The Azure platform provides a simple pricing model while providing a rich set of capabilities, so companies can plan and budget appropriately. This approach is aimed at simplifying the complexities that often exist with implementing and costing IoT solutions. Along with this, Microsoft and its partners also provide a workshop in which one can identify IoT scenarios, and at the end of this workshop, they can decide to work on common goals. These workshops have various stages starting right from business problem identification, implementing PoC, to development and trials with organizational readiness and implementing it across an organization to achieve the business outcome following the path for the digitization of the business.

Developers can start building custom solutions using IoT Hub or get started quickly with the comprehensive pre-configured solutions of Azure IoT Suite (which includes Azure IoT Hub). This book will focus mostly on Azure IoT Hub and IoT Suite.