Building a practical application

The objective of this project is to send data from an IoT device over cloud and monitor its activities in a nice visual dashboard. For this purpose, we will be utilizing some of the Microsoft Azure services. The following figure illustrates the steps we will perform in this project:

Let's get started by creating a Microsoft Azure account.

Microsoft Azure account

We will now create an account in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft are providing a free account for a year that allows use of their products with base line resources. They are also giving $200 credit with a free account for the first month, so that user can also test their services on an enterprise level without any limitations. Follow...