Name: Microsoft Azure IoT Central
Rating: 8.3 (14 reviews)
Author: Microsoft

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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.

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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We used it for a smaller IoT project (due to NDA I can't disclose full details), it helped ease the development and reduced the costs quite a bit, also, it made maintaining the app much easier, as all is done from one central location. IoT Central has a useful user interface, allowing you to manage all your IoT devices, configure user roles, create and manage apps, integrate and administer your app. From a usability point of view, Microsoft Azure IoT Central is a well-built product, which in my experience has proven to be very useful.

Creation and management of user roles, who can access your IoT resources and configure the level of access, very granular and self-explanatory
Configuration of apps and devices, integrations, and administrations are done in an intuitive way and it's easy to navigate your way through the available settings.
The documentation is really excellent, everything is explained succinctly and there are enough practical examples to get you started.
Existing templates can save you a lot of time in getting your desired setup complete with less effort and time invested.

They could add more variations to their pricing, make it more flexible for smaller projects with limited budgets, more pricing plans basically.
Integration of IoT hardware and embedded systems could do with minor improvements
Documentation for logs could be a bit more detailed, like the rest of the docs.
I wish they could add more security options, as leaving it by the default values opens up too many vulnerabilities.
Add support for more operating systems, especially the not so mainstream ones, like Huawei Harmony, as their devices are widely used in certain parts of the world.

Developing apps for IoT devices
Seamless integrations with other products from the Microsoft's ecosystem
Easier maintenance of complex enterprise IoT solutions

9% guaranteed uptime by the SLA
Affordable billing for smaller data transfers between devices, under 4KB
Free devices and messages for higher pricing tiers, for example for Standard Tier 2 we got two free devices and 60k included free messages.

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The product is highly secure, scales with our business as it grows, ensures our investments are repeatable, and integrates with our existing business apps.

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connect a device with device SAS
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Company's need was for a platform to support application IoT systems and application development. In my personal case, I was newly introduced to all concepts which Azure offered: IoT world, centralized system and platform as a service. Microsoft's documentation on the topic was very good and handy in a lot of situations. For a beginner to set up an IoT system it was easy as a couple of clicks, but after some time I wished that it was a bit deeper because it gets harder to build on more complex solutions as the tutorials really just document the basics and not "what it actually does". IoT services (IoT hub, stream analytics, etc) themselves offer a fine programmatic approach (API) as well as easy to configure GUI on their portal. This was just the basic usage as later on in the company we went much further into building complex solutions using Azure's IoT services. In the beginning, documentation was good and covered a lot of things and the only complaint we had was that not enough problems have been encountered and solved, as for many difficulties it was a process of trying many different approaches until finding a good one.

Documentation
Support
Good and approachable GUI
Many types of subscription configurations

Lack of info on error messages
GUI misses important configuration options
Not well documented options inside IoT Hub for example (consumer groups)

Scalability
Ease of use
good subscription options

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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Azure IoT Central

Overview

What is Azure IoT Central?