Connect an IoT Edge device to your IoT Central application

Intermediate
Developer
Solution Architect
Azure
IoT Central
IoT Edge
Functions

In this module, you'll prepare an IoT Central application to connect an IoT Edge device to. You'll add some dashboards that enable an operator to manage the IoT Edge device. You'll deploy an IoT Edge device to virtual machine and connect the device to your IoT Central application. You'll use Azure Functions to add filtering capabilities to the IoT Edge device.

Learning objectives

In this module, you will:

  • Create an IoT Central application
  • Import and IoT Edge deployment manifest into IoT Central
  • Add an IoT Edge device template to your application
  • Add dashboards to the device template
  • Publish the device template
  • Add an IoT Edge device to your IoT Central application
  • Deploy an IoT Edge enabled Linux VM
  • Manage the IoT Edge device from IoT Central
  • Deploy an Azure function to the IoT Edge device

Prerequisites

  • Ability to create an IoT Central application using the web UI.
  • Ability to use Azure CLI at the beginner level.
  • Experience using IoT Edge at the beginner level
  • Experience administering an IoT Central application using the web UI at the intermediate level
  • Experience managing device templates and devices in an IoT central application using the web UI at the intermediate level