John Adali

Getting Started with Azure Device Provisioning Service

Azure and IoT Hub provide the ability to register and connect individual IoT devices so that their telemetry data can be sent and received in the cloud. This is great but what do you do if you have hundreds or even thousands of devices? Individually registering them is not feasible and would be a maintenance nightmare. We need a solution for these types of scenarios.

This article will describe what the Azure Device Provisioning Service is and how you can use it to maintain multiple IoT devices with Azure at scale.

Starting Out with Azure IoT Edge

In today’s article I’d like to discuss Azure IoT Edge and how you can get started with it. I will be explaining the benefits of Azure IoT Edge and providing a couple of demos to demonstrate how you can create a very simple IoT solution using an IoT Edge device.

Using Device Twins with Azure IoT Hub

In today’s article I’d like to discuss Device Twins and how you can use them with Azure IoT Hub. I will be discussing what Device Twins are, how they are used and then provide a code example of using them with Azure IoT Hub.

Reading Sensors on the MXChip AZ3166 IoT Device

Recently I have been playing around with the MXChip IoT DevKit device (AZ3166, you can purchase one here) and I’ve noticed that while there are great code samples designed to get you started with the MXChip DevKit, there aren’t any basic examples showing you how to use the different sensors built into the device. This article aims to go through each of the available on-board sensors (temperature & humidity, pressure, accelerometer & gyroscope, and magnetometer) and give examples on how to use them.

Using Azure Stream Analytics with IoT Devices

Azure Stream Analytics is Microsoft’s PaaS (platform-as-a-service) event-processing engine that allows you to analyze and process large volumes of streaming data from multiple incoming sources. You can configure different input sources including IoT devices, sensors or business applications for data ingestion. Delivery outputs can also be configured to send the processed data to those destinations for performing actions or further analytics.

Azure IoT Hub Messaging

The Azure IoT Hub service provides the ability for bi-directional communication with your devices. You can use Azure IoT Hub to send messages from your devices to your IoT cloud solutions, as well as send commands from your IoT cloud solutions to your devices. This article will describe the different types of communications possible with Azure IoT Hub and how you can use them.

Azure IoT Central

Azure IoT Central is Microsoft’s SaaS (software-as-a-service) offering that allows you to quickly provision an IoT solution. This service reduces the burden and cost of developing, managing and maintaining enterprise-level IoT solutions, allowing you to focus more on your IoT data and how it can transform your business. I will be going through the steps to create an Azure IoT Central application and how easy it is to create and maintain an IoT solution.

Message Routing with Azure IoT Hub

IoT solutions can be complex, especially if you have multiple devices that you need to send to more than one destination in your cloud solution. Azure IoT Hub provides the capability to send your device data to multiple destinations through message routing. This article will describe the available options with message routing and how they are used.

Creating and Configuring Azure IoT Hub

Microsoft provides the Azure IoT Hub service to assist in implementing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. This fully managed Azure service enables reliable and secure bidirectional communication between your IoT devices and a back-end solution hosted in Azure. I am going to review the steps to create an IoT hub in Azure, along with how to register a device and configure tier and scaling options.

Beer Kegerator with IoT Part 2 – How A Beer to the Face is a Good Thing

Normally, getting splashed in the face with beer is not a good thing. I am going to show you how using your face with beer can be a good thing. This blog is a continuation of my previous blog on using IoT with a Beer Kegerator (link).