Name: Google Cloud IoT
Rating: 8 (13 reviews)
Author: Google

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Microsoft's Azure IoT Hub is a managed service for bidirectional communication between IoT devices and Azure. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device. Users can extend their solutions from the cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning.

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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.

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AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices interact with cloud applications and other devices. It includes the Device Gateway and the Message Broker, which connect and process messages between IoT devices and the cloud. AWS IoT Core  connects AWS and Amazon services like AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon QuickSight, and Alexa Voice Service to build IoT applications that gather, process, analyze and act on data generated by connected devices, without having to manage any infrastructure. The AWS IoT Device and Mobile SDKs include open-source libraries, developer guides with samples, and porting guides so that users can build innovative IoT products or solutions on your choice of hardware platforms.

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Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service built on Azure IoT Hub. Users can deploy cloud workloads—artificial intelligence, Azure and third-party services, or business logic—to run on Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices via standard containers. The vendor states that by moving certain workloads to the edge of the network, devices spend less time communicating with the cloud, react more quickly to local changes, and operate reliably even in extended offline periods.

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Microsoft states users can protect IoT/OT devices and get visibility into risk with Microsoft Defender for IoT (formerly Azure Defender for IoT), boasting agentless network monitoring for asset discovery, vulnerability management, and continuous threat detection across IoT/OT devices whether they’re unmanaged devices or managed devices provisioned via Azure IoT Hub. Features an integration with Azure Sentinel and third-party solutions. Deploy in either on-premises or Azure-connected environments. Agentless monitoring capabilities boltered by Microsoft's acquisition of CyberX in June 2020. CyberX now powers Microsoft Defender for IoT.

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The Google Cloud IoT Core is a fully managed service that allows you to easily and securely connect, manage, and ingest data from millions of globally dispersed devices. Cloud IoT Core, in combination with other services on Cloud IoT platform, provides a complete solution for collecting, processing, analyzing, and visualizing IoT data in real time to support improved operational efficiency.

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Google Cloud IoT

Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. 

Since its founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language the company now offers dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks—in scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, the company now has thousands of employees and offices around the world.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices resulting from the proliferation of sensors and Internet-aware devices of every kind.

Software for provisioning configuring, troubleshooting and managing IoT devices and gateways remotely.

Security to prevent connected devices from being hacked or compromised.

Support for ingesting edge data and storing it to enterprise platforms, providing data accessibility, and managing data flows.

Rich analytics to transform large quantities of sensor data into actionable insights.

Software integration and APIs to support business processes and applications.

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I had to use Google Cloud IoT platform for building a smart home project to interact with entities, mostly Google's Nest thermometer. The third-party software was called Home Assistant, where you can connect IoT devices and automate making a smart home a lot smoother. There is a lot of integration that happens doing it this way but the functionality is very pleasing.

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Pros and Cons

Access to several services.
Very thorough services.
Wide range of functionality.

Things done well

Not beginner friendly.
Needs more tutorials and walk throughs on how to get started.
Very complicated and unless you know what you are doing you will be lost.
Lack of material found on how to do each section / services.

Things done poorly

I consider myself very techy and found Google Cloud IoT platform very challenging to manage. The lack of tutorials and discussions to understand how each section works is very challenging. I specifically made a connection after several hours to Google Nest to third-party integration, Home Assistant. Shortly after Google Cloud upgraded to a new version breaking the connection. This was extremely frustrating. No service should take several hours to figure out, in my opinion, if it does, the platform is doing a poor job of making it easy. I'm personally very discouraged any time I ever have to use this platform.  It's very hard to find answers.

Needs to be User friendly.
Tutorials need to be easy accessible.
A working example needs to be included with each service.

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Feature Ratings

The amount of hours to get things integrated is negative.
The amount of hours researching how to get devices integrated is negative.
Overall the amount of time and effort getting things working has been a negative experience.

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Google Cloud IoT 2022-07-10 09:36:59

The last years of work have been dedicated to the design of electronic equipment related to the IoT, I have analyzed and experimented with different platforms, Google Cloud IoT being one of the ones that have best impressed me. Although later I have chosen to design a personalized platform that uses parts from different providers including Google, to date I consider that I will use it again in new projects.

Integration with different brands of microcontrollers including the one currently used by Espresiff.
The platform is very robust and secure.

It would be convenient to be able to calculate operating costs simply and in advance.
At the moment the interface offers too many options that could be a problem for an inexperienced user.

If your IoT project is in the prototype or experimental phase, there are options that are simpler to implement than Google Cloud IoT, perhaps using your own servers and not hosted on Google's cloud. However, if you are developing a solution that has the projection of becoming a product without a doubt, you should use a cloud platform like Google Cloud IoT for many reasons such as scalability, security and service availability among others.

Scalability, no matter how many subscribers Google Cloud IoT has, it adapts its processing automatically.
Informatic security.
The best current technology.

The use of Google Cloud IoT services is essentially charged according to the data transmission carried out, it is important to consider the volume of data to be used previously.
Despite the expense that cloud services may have, it is also true that a lot of personnel is saved, who should be available at all hours to ensure that the servers are active.

Although comparisons are hateful, even more so when we are talking about leading brands where the quality of their services are indisputable, the general environment of Google was more familiar to me since I use, for example, Google Firebase on a daily basis, where part of the concepts are similar, without Without a doubt, AWS services are excellent, but it was easier for me to go through the functions of Google Cloud IoT.

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Google Cloud IoT 2022-06-20 20:51:29

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Overview

What is Google Cloud IoT?

Google Clout IoT is very complex to beginners

One of the best IOT platforms.

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