What Azure services I would use?

Question

What services to use in Azure if I want to connect IoT devices to the cloud, allow users to control them from a mobile phone, and enable support to view and read data from variables over time for each product? In other words, I would need the capability to store data every minute for variables such as temperature, current, etc.

Answer 1

Hello Roy,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

To achieve your goals with Azure, you can use a combination of services tailored for IoT, mobile control, and data storage/visualization. Here’s a breakdown of the services you might consider:

1. Connecting IoT Devices to the Cloud (Azure IoT Hub): This is the central service for connecting, monitoring, and managing IoT devices. It supports bi-directional communication between your IoT application and the devices
2. Azure IoT Central: This is a fully managed IoT app platform that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets at scale. It includes built-in support for mobile applications, allowing users to control devices from their phones
3. Azure IoT Plug and Play: This feature allows you to quickly connect IoT devices to Azure IoT Central using a mobile app.
4. Azure Data Explorer: This service is ideal for analyzing high volumes of data in near real-time. It can store and query data from your IoT devices.
5. Azure Time Series Insights: This is a fully managed analytics, storage, and visualization service that makes it easy to explore and analyze time-series data from IoT devices.
6. Azure Stream Analytics: This service can process and analyze streaming data from your IoT devices in real-time.
7. Azure SQL Database: For structured data storage, you can use Azure SQL Database to store and query data from your IoT devices.

The process of all of the services mentioned before should look like: Connect your IoT devices to Azure IoT Hub > Then Use Azure IoT Central for device management and mobile control > Store data in Azure Data Explorer or Azure SQL Database > Visualize and analyze data using Azure Time Series Insights or Azure Stream Analytics. In case you need the reference information used: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot/iot-overview-device-connectivity, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot/iot-phone-app-how-to and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot/iot-overview-analyze-visualize

I hope the information provided was useful, I will be waiting for your response.

Best Regards,

Gao.

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Answer 2

Very clear answer, thank you very much for the input!