Microsoft Azure IoT Suite enables you to connect and integrate with devices very easily. It also provides an ability to capture and analyze untapped device data by using our preconfigured solutions.
Microsoft has added support for remote monitoring in addition to upcoming predictive maintenance and asset management solutions. Microsoft Azure IoT Suite capture and analyze data in the cloud using real-time and in batch processing. As soon as the devices are connected, the suite provides real time information in an intuitive format that helps you take action from insights.
Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT program has been announced. This program enable businesses to test and certify IoT devices connected to Azure. Microsoft has already tied up with leading companies such as Beaglebone, Freescale, Intel, Raspberry Pi, Resin.io, Seeed and Texas Instruments.
Microsoft also announced the public preview of Azure IoT Hub service which is a fully managed service that enables reliable and secure bi-directional communications between millions of IoT devices and an application back end. Azure IoT Hub also offers following in a reliable way
- Reliable device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device hyper-scale messaging
- Secure communications using per-device security credentials and access control
- Device libraries for the most popular languages and platforms
Azure IoT Hub service provides secure and scalable bi-directional communication from the heterogeneous devices to the cloud. The service offers Per-device authentication, secure connectivity, extensive set of device libraries, IoT protocols. It also has an ability to scale millions of simultaneously connected devices, and millions of events per seconds.
Azure Container Service take advantage of the popular Apache Mesos project to deliver a customer proven orchestration solution for applications delivered as Docker containers. It enables users to easily create and manage a Docker enabled Apache Mesos cluster. You will be able to take advanatage of the various features of Azure infrastructure management such as tagging of resources, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and the fully integrated user experience in the Azure portal.