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Brian Bønk lays out a quick comparison:
When working with Azure Data Explorer and loading data to the storage engine, you might have some streaming devices or services that should land in the engine.
Azure provides two out-of-the-box services:
- Azure IoT Hub
- Azure Event Hub
At first glance it seems like teh two services are doing the exact same thing – sending events through to other services in Azure. But there are some differences.
Read on to see what these differences are.
Leave a CommentBen Brauer announces the Well-Architected Framework for IoT devices on Azure:
The IoT workload guidance outlines the core principles that facilitate a well-architected IoT solution and provides recommendations for each of the 5 pillars of the Well-Architected Framework. This guidance highlights the key considerations and high-level principles for an IoT workload, design considerations to help you enable those principles, and tradeoffs to consider in order to meet your business goals.
Despite its overloaded acronym, I like the Well-Architected Framework as a way of making sure that you are implementing a solution in Azure the right way.
Comments closedJames Serra looks at IoT Central:
This is a short blog to give you a high-level overview on a product called Azure IoT Central. I saw this fairly new Azure product (GA Sept 2018) in use for the first time at a large manufacturing company who was using it at their manufacturing facility (see Grupo Bimbo takes a bite out of production costs with Azure IoT throughout factories). They have thousands of sensors that are collecting data for all the machines used in producing their products. In short, think of it as an “Application Platform as a Service (aPaas)” for quickly building IoT solutions. It’s boxing up IoT hub, Device Provisioning Service (DPS), Stream Analytics, Data Explorer, SQL Database, Time Series Intelligence and Cosmos DB to make it easy to quickly build a solution and get value out of the IoT data. To get an idea of the what this solution would look like, check out the IoT Central sample for calculating Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of industrial equipment.
I haven’t seen much use of this service, as generally any use case I’ve seen around IoT quickly turns into using IoT Hub and IoT Edge to develop custom code.
Comments closedJoy George Kunjikkur installs the .NET runtime on a Raspberry Pi 4:
Here we are continuing the experiments with Raspberry Pi 4. As a .Net developer, what is the meaning if we cannot install .Net into RasPi and run one program?
Please note this post is aiming at installing the .Net runtime, not the SDK. Development and compilation will be done outside of RasPi. Also, this is not aiming to run ASP.Net, just simple .Net console apps only.
One other option, which Azure IoT Hub uses, is to install moby and deploy your .NET apps as containers. But if you don’t want to do that, click through for a few techniques.
Comments closedDrew Furgiuele is looking for mood lighting tips:
It did get me thinking, though: what if I could take this idea and change it up a bit to where people could send me messages WITHOUT the need for them to have a lamp (and thereby give them plausible deniability of being, in fact, my friend). How would that work? In absence of a lamp, would a web application work? And what if we could let people pick a color in lieu of an actual message? You could send a whole mood!
And just like that, my motivation was restored. Time to get to work.
Click through for the build process, which includes 3D printing components, wiring and soldering to circuit boards, writing software for the IoT device, building the front-end web app, and more. Also, I sent red but now I’m not sure if I regret that color choice based on re-reading the first paragraph above.
Comments closedAndrew Pruski isn’t satisfied with one Raspberry Pi:
I’ve been playing around with Kubernetes for a while now and things like Azure Kubernetes Service are great tools to learn but I wanted something that I’d built from the ground up.
Something that I could tear down, fiddle with, and rebuild to my heart’s content.
So earlier this year I finally got around to doing just that and with Azure SQL Edge going GA with a disconnected mode I wanted to blog about my setup.
Click through to see how to do this.
Comments closedKurt Cagle explains a concept:
At the core of such digital twins is the notion of a model. A model, in the most basic definition of the word, is a proxy for a thing or process. A runway model, for instance, is a person who is intended to be a proxy for the viewer, showing off how a given garment looks. An artist’s model is a stand-in or proxy for the image, scene, or illustration that an artist is producing. An architectural model is a simulation of how a given building will look like when constructed, and with 3D rendering technology, such models can appear quite life-like. Additionally, though, the models can also simulate more than appearance – they can simulate structural integrity, strain analysis, and even chemistry interactions. We create models of stars, black holes, and neutron stars based upon our understanding of physics, and models of disease spread in the case of epidemics.
This is a really good explanation of the concept. Contrast with the explanation of, say, Azure Digital Twins. The first time I saw it, I thought one thing; then, when I read the intro page, I thought something different. Then, I walked through the demo and thought something yet again different. I might have just missed the part where it lays out exactly what a digital twin is and its importance but I do like Kurt’s explanation a lot more.
Comments closedPaul Hernandez continues a series on digital twins:
As mentioned in my previous post, Azure Digital Twins (ADT) Service is a new way to build next generation IoT solutions. In the first post I show you in a video how to manage ADT instances with the ADT Explorer. In the second post I show how to do mostly the same but using Postman and the ADT Rest API.
ADT has control plane APIs and data plane APIs. The latest is used to manage elements in the ADT instance. In order to use these APIs Microsoft published a .Net (C#) SDK. And SDK is a convenient way to manage instances, since you can easily create applications for your digital twins. If for any reason you prefer to use another language like java, javascript or python, you need to generate your own SDK.
In this post I describe how to autogenerate a Python SDK using the tool Autorest and a swagger file.
Read on to see how you can manage digital twins by generating an SDK.
Comments closedPaul Hernandez explains the concept of digital twins in the IoT space:
Azure Digital Twins Service offers a way to build next generation IoT solutions. There are other approaches on the market to describe IoT devices and build digital twins. Without making a formal comparison I can say with the Azure Digital Twins is possible to build a powerful semantic layer on top of your connected devices using domain specific models.
To show you how this work let’s create a kind of “hello world” example. An end-to-end solution is out-of-scope of this post. Instead I will create some hands-on tutorial to demonstrate some of the functionalities.
Click through to see an example.
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