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The Azure IoT Handbook

You're reading from  The Azure IoT Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837633616
Pages 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Dan Clark Dan Clark
Profile icon Dan Clark

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Capturing Data from Remote Devices
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to the IoT 3. Chapter 2: Exploring the IoT Hub Service 4. Chapter 3: Provisioning Devices with the Device Provisioning Service 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Device Management and Monitoring 6. Chapter 5: Securing IoT Systems 7. Part 2: Processing the Data
8. Chapter 6: Creating Message Routing 9. Chapter 7: Exploring Azure Stream Analytics 10. Chapter 8: Investigating IoT Data with Azure Data Explorer 11. Chapter 9: Exploring IoT Edge Computing 12. Part 3: Processing the Data
13. Chapter 10: Visualizing Streaming Data in Power BI 14. Chapter 11: Integrating Machine Learning 15. Chapter 12: Responding to Device Events 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

The features of IoT Hub

You may become confused when you look at the different offerings Microsoft has on Azure. They have Event Hubs and IoT Hub. How do you decide when to use which offering? While they are both message-based service offerings, they are each designed with different use cases in mind. Event Hubs was designed for big data streaming, while IoT Hub was designed to address the unique requirements of addressing and managing IoT devices at scale. IoT Hub uses Event Hubs for its telemetry movement. Some of the advantages of using IoT Hub are as follows:

  • IoT Hub offers bi-directional communication between the hub and the devices. This is very important for updating device properties and sending commands to the devices.
  • IoT Hub also maintains unique device identities for better security and resilience from attacks.

Now that you have decided to use IoT Hub for your solution, the next step is to choose the right tier. IoT Hub has both a basic tier and a standard...

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