Benefits of IOT Hub

Nick Diaz 286 Reputation points
2023-01-25T15:20:29.9266667+00:00

What are the Benefits of IOT hub over other industry competitors
 

Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub
An Azure service that enables bidirectional communication between internet of things (IoT) devices and applications.
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  1. Sander van de Velde | MVP 34,856 Reputation points MVP
    2023-01-25T15:46:25.49+00:00

    Hello @PC,

    the Azure IoT Hub is a specialized cloud gateway with multiple capabilities.

    It starts with registering device identities and connecting these devices to the cloud for device-to-cloud message ingestion.

    Incoming messages can be internally routed, based on routing rules, to multiple Azure resources. These messages can be enriched with context.

    This context is set in the device registration device twin (the tags section). In this same twin, cloud-to-device commands can be set (desired properties). Devices are capable to change the reported properties in an async manner.

    The IoT Hub can scale to many devices and messages being transferred.

    Devices can also be managed at scale.

    Although perhaps not applicable to you, the IoT Hub also supports edge computing running on edge devices (using all sorts of docker containers).

    Because you use a third-party provider like TTN, you can integrate with Azure IoT Hub directly, there is tooling available to create all resources needed.

    This integration is two-way. Registering a device in one portal, create the device in the other portal too.

    I suggest just start investigating this TTN connectivity feature.

    If registered devices are connected to different platforms, using the tags and enrichments, different ways to handle the data can be provided. So you get a uniform way of working for all devices.

    Because the IoT Hub is a PaaS solution, you do not need to worry about the security needed to expose a public endpoint. If needed an IoT Hub can even be introduced in a private (cloud) network.

    It's simple and convenient to start with an IoT Hub.

    It depends on you bigger architecture plan how much value you can get out of the IoT Hub.

    Last thing, an IoT Hub supports MQTT too but the collection of topics and flows is very specific. This is mostly useful for devices not capable of using the regular Azure IoT Device SDK.


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