#1 most frequent
United States of America
50.0%19 installations of 38
What is Azure IoT Central?
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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Who Buys & Uses Microsoft Azure IoT Central
#2 most frequent
India
10.5%4 installations of 38
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
10.5%4 installations of 38
Great if you're an long time Microsoft user, it's getting better all the time
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
Most Important Features
- Developing apps for IoT devices
- Seamless integrations with other products from the Microsoft's ecosystem
- Easier maintenance of complex enterprise IoT solutions
Return on Investment
- 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.
Alternatives Considered
Google Cloud IoT, Datadog and AWS IoT Core
Other Software Used
Visual Studio IDE, Postman, Slack
Experience brings wisdom
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The product is highly secure, scales with our business as it grows, ensures our investments are repeatable, and integrates with our existing business apps.
Pros
- highly secure
- predictable pricing
- Focuesed industry
Cons
- central application
- smartphone app
Most Important Features
- connect a device with device SAS
- Create individual enrollments
Return on Investment
- Continuous and significant progress
- Integration of the product in the ongoing work and improvement of our system capacity
- Convenient interface
Alternatives Considered
AWS Security Hub
Other Software Used
AWS Cloud9, AdmitHub, Alcumus Info Exchange
Microsoft Azure IoT Central - perfect for beginners, adequate for business
Pros
- Documentation
- Support
- Good and approachable GUI
- Many types of subscription configurations
Cons
- Lack of info on error messages
- GUI misses important configuration options
- Not well documented options inside IoT Hub for example (consumer groups)
Most Important Features
- Scalability
- Ease of use
- good subscription options
Return on Investment
- 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
Other Software Used
Visual Studio IDE, Azure App Service, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Container Instances