Introduction to Azure Sphere – Secure IoT Development Platform
Azure Sphere is Microsoft’s Internet of Things (IoT) platform for building more highly secured IoT solutions. Azure Sphere incorporates components of hardware, operating system, and…
Azure IoT
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) services in the cloud. This includes Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Edge, Azure Digital Twins, Azure Sphere, and more!
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IoT Security Architecture: Trust Zones and Security Boundaries
There are many aspects to architecting an Internet of Things (IoT) solution. Security is the most important aspect of any computer system, but it’s especially…
AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Specialty Certification and Exam (RETIRED)
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer certification exam (AZ-220) tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Developer. Passing this exam will…
Tour of Azure Messaging Services (Event Grid, Queues, Topics, IoT Hub, and More)
In the early days of Microsoft Azure, there were only a couple message queue service; Azure Storage Queue and Service Bus. This was way back…
Azure IoT Developer Kit: Sensor Overview
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible board built for helping with prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The key difference with…
What is Azure IoT Hub?
Security and reliability are 2 huge problem areas to overcome with the Internet of Things (IoT). The Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is the cloud solution…
ESP32-Azure IoT Kit Development Board from Espressif (ESP32-WROVER-B)
There are certainly lots of different boards that can be used for building and prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. I’ve posted a few times…
Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT?
Both Azure Event Grid and Azure IoT Hub are massively scalable messaging services in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. There’s a lot of talk about Azure…
Administrator’s Introduction to Azure IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) industry has continued to grow and become more pervasive in people’s everyday lives these last few years. There are MANY…
Azure IoT Hub Now Generally Available
On Feb 3, 2016, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is now Generally Available (GA). Azure IoT Hub service is available stand-alone or as…
Lambda Architecture for IoT and Big Data Systems
Lambda Architecture is a data processing design pattern designed for Big Data systems that need to process data in near real-time. This pattern works very…
Terraform: Create Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
At the core of any Internet of Things (IoT) solution built with Microsoft Azure is the need to connect IoT devices to the cloud and…
Azure CLI: Create Azure IoT Hub
It’s really easy to provision an instance of Azure IoT Hub using the Azure Portal. However, there are times when you need to automate the…
Microsoft Azure IoT Developer AZ-220 Certification is now LIVE (RETIRED)
The Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty certification (and exam AZ-220) is now LIVE and out of Beta. This is the first cloud-based Internet of…
Azure CLI: Manage Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
One of the services within Microsoft Azure for building out IoT solutions is the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS). Just as with other…
Internet of Things (IoT) Messaging Architecture
Internet of Things (IoT) architecture requires a different kind of message queue based communication than other types of software systems or big data solutions. Most…
Azure IoT DevKit: Upgrade Firmware – MXChip, AZ3166
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) board is built for prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and getting started quickly and easily. As part…
Azure IoT DevKit: Configure Wifi Connectivity – No Wifi?
The Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) board is a great prototyping board that is easy to get started with and use. Setting up and configuring…
Deciding PaaS or SaaS for Building IoT Solutions in Microsoft Azure
Building out an IoT (Internet of Things) solution can be a difficult problem to solve. It sounds easy at first, you just connect a bunch…
Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation
HashiCorp Terraform is popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool used to automate infrastructure deployments. Terraform is great for deploying Microsoft Azure resources like Azure IoT…