AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 9 - Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

IoT Hub

It's a hub to collate data feeds from all your things. It's a backend, this system receives the data and manages it. It can receive data from billions of devices.

IoT Hub - Features

• Managed and Secure
• Ease of Deployment
• Platform-as-a-Service
• Scaling and Authentication

IoT Central

• Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
  • Simplify and speed up the implementation of your IoT solution
• No Coding Needed
  • You don't have to know how to write code to deploy your IoT project. Receive feeds from devices and focus on metrics and business value
• Pre-made Containers
  • Use any of the hundreds of connectors that are ready to use in IoT Central

Solutions

• IoT Hub
  • PaaS solution that provides more control over the IoT data collection and processing
• IoT Central
  • aPaaS solution that provides pre-made IoT connections and dashboards to get set up quickly

Internet of Things Azure Sphere

An all-in-one solution for IoT devices on Azure.

• Specific Hardware
  • You can only use hardware and chipsets certified by Microsoft for use on Azure
• Security
  • Specialized security service that manages maintenance, updates, and general control
• Operating System
  • Custom made for Azure Sphere devices. Connects to the Sphere Security Service