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    Arduino

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AArduino is an open-source hardware and software ecosystem. Providing software tools, hardware platforms and documentation that enables anyone to be creative with technology. Arduino is a popular tool for IoT product development as well as STEM/STEAM education.N/A

    Azure IoT Central

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure IoT Central allows users to connect IoT devices to the cloud and offers centralized management to configure and updated connected devices.N/A
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    ArduinoAzure IoT Central
    Internet of Things
    Comparison of Internet of Things features of Arduino and Microsoft Azure IoT Central
    Feature
    Arduino
    4.8
    1 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central
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    Ratings
    IoT Device Management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device Security5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IoT Data Management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IoT Analytics3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IoT Integration5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    ArduinoAzure IoT Central
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    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
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    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ArduinoAzure IoT Central
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ArduinoAzure IoT Central
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Arduino
    Excellent for teaching - learning and small projects of automation, robotics, domotics in industry.It has a large development community and being a free software is widely recognized and is constantly evolving.Not very suitable for scenarios where wifi connectivity is needed, in order to make use of it, it is necessary to purchase additional products.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central has native integrations with Visual Studio (like pretty much all Microsoft products) making it pretty simple to publish apps to Azure App Service, where you can host all sorts of different applications. It does a really good job of storing large amounts of data (for instance, collected from IoT devices with various sensors) and it gets stored to multiple DBs. Azure IoT Central could improve by adding more customizations, as this would make troubleshooting the products easier and make future costs smaller and easier to predict.
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    Pros
    Arduino
    • Easy interfacing with other microcontrollers
    • Your IDE is versatile for programming other types of microcontrollers.
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    Microsoft
    • Documentation
    • Support
    • Good and approachable GUI
    • Many types of subscription configurations
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    Cons
    Arduino
    • Arduino should implement wifi communication on most of its development boards.
    • Extend your protection against electromagnetic noise
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    Microsoft
    • central application
    • smartphone app
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    Alternatives Considered
    Arduino
    Arduino has its own IDE which allows the programming of its development kits to be done quickly and easily, compared to others.
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    Microsoft
    Before deciding to go with Microsoft Azure IoT Central, we considered Google, Datadog, and AWS alternatives. The reason we went with Azure was that the client was heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and Azure plays really well with other Microsoft products. The competitive products might be a little bit easier to set up, with more flexible pricing, but, the integrations with other Microsoft services were the deciding factor for our use case.
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    Return on Investment
    Arduino
    • Positive impact on teaching processes, students find their development cards attractive.
    • In projects where fast implementation is necessary, it is the best option.
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    Microsoft
    • positive: connected huge number of machines as IoT devices and passed them through entire IoT pipeline until storage in a fairly short time
    • negative: we spent some time figuring out some "less-used" services because they aren't documented well
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