Microsoft Azure IoT Central vs. OpenRemote

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure IoT Central
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Microsoft 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
Score 0.0 out of 10
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OpenRemote 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
Pricing
Microsoft Azure IoT CentralOpenRemote
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure IoT CentralOpenRemote
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.0 out of 10
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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Enterprises

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AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Microsoft Azure IoT CentralOpenRemote
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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User Testimonials
Microsoft Azure IoT CentralOpenRemote
Likelihood to Recommend
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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OpenRemote
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Documentation
  • Support
  • Good and approachable GUI
  • Many types of subscription configurations
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OpenRemote
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Cons
Microsoft
  • central application
  • smartphone app
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OpenRemote
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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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OpenRemote
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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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OpenRemote
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