- IoT Overview
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Creating an IoT Solution
- 2.1. Model the Device
- 2.2. Create an Instance of the Device from Template
- 2.3. Create Event Source and Threshold Policy for the Device
- 2.4. Create Event Stream for Device
- 2.5. Create Application
- 2.6. Create Event Stream for Application
- 2.7. Subscribe to Events
- 2.8. Configure the Device
- 2.9. Configure the Application
- 2.10. Send Event from Device
- 3. API Documentation
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Key Features
This section describes the key capabilities provided in this release:
- Ability to define devices: There are templates for devices, and a device’s attributes can be described so that a message from a sensor on the device will carry the device type and attributes.
- Ability to collect data from the device ecosystem: An ecosystem could be a fleet of cars equipped to forward the data to an event hub within our platform. Data is sent in a protocol called MQTT, which is the industry standard data format for industrial IoT.
- Ability to process data: The event hub publishes the data to the applications and APIs. If the data is published to a queue, third-party applications that are subscribed to that queue do not receive published data, but will be able to read the data from the queue.
- Ability of 3rd party apps to consume data: - An application can be programmed to react to data by using specific kinds of data to trigger specific kinds of responses—an alert is published and can be read from a specific queue and sent by the application to the user, or a support person can get instructions to contact the driver of a car that shows signs of overheating.