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    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

    OpenRemote

    N/AN/AOpenRemote is an open source IoT platform. It features: Generic asset and attribute model with different asset types Protocol agents like HTTP REST or MQTT to connect IoT devices, gateways, or data services or build a missing vendor-specific API. Flow editor for data processing, and a WHEN-THEN and a Groovy UI for event-based rules. Standard Dashboard for provisioning, automating, controlling, and monitoring application as well as Web UI components to build…N/A
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    Azure IoT CentralOpenRemote
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    Azure IoT CentralOpenRemote
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    AWS IoT Core
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure IoT CentralOpenRemote
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    8.9
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    User Testimonials
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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
    Microsoft
    • Documentation
    • Support
    • Good and approachable GUI
    • Many types of subscription configurations
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • central application
    • smartphone app
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    Alternatives Considered
    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
    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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