Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.5 out of 10

Score

6.5 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

Personal Experience on Azure vs AWS for the IoT War.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure IoT Hub is used by several clients within my organization, the latest project is about telemetry data from sensors installed in cars allowing easy connection and registration at the scale of new sensors, managing them, and redirecting the data to other services of the business workflow. The Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is very intuitive and easy to use, this is why is our to-go service for handling several IoT devices.

Pros

Massive registration and deployment of new devices.
Easy integration with other Azure services.
Handling security if devices.

Cons

It's usually more expensive than its competitors.
More restrictions and limitations for registering IoT Devices.
Documentation is confusing, compared to AWS IoT.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend Azure IoT Hub for the energy industry and for massive scaling, maintaining security, and easy management of devices. It could be less suited from my point of view to small IoT projects due to the steeper learning curve.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

One of the best IoT service in the industry!!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are developing a device that will use the Azure IOT hub to communicate with other devices. This device will communicate within our research building to send notifications regarding login in and login out. Azure IoT hub with Azure student programs is cheap and our school has purchased a yearly subscription for the same. This device will be helpful for our school and is a part of our research.

Pros

Bidirectional communication on cloud with different devices.
Secured communication with different devices.
Compatibility with IOT central and Azure event grid.

Cons

Its expensive for individual use and price needs to be decreased.
Documentation of IOT hub is a little confusing and needs to be detailed.
Azure edge services are mediocre as compare to Amazon edge services.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are using the Azure IOT hub for solving the multitenancy problem within our research project. We are consuming data from various resources and communicating it with different devices on our hybrid cloud. We also use Azure IoT as a bridge between two business Intelligence sources which are really hard to connect devices.

Omkar Marne

Software Engineer in Information Technology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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IoT integration

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 7, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Usage of IoT products for intelligent logistics operations. We develop Smart Sensors (Sensoroids) which are capable of acting as a direct representation of their physical counterparts in the cloud. For the sensors to act as digital twins in logistics we require to acquire several sensor data to represent the staus of the good in transport. As such we need to acquire location (GPS and indoor location) sensors (such as temperature, humidity, weight, vibration and shock) to be able to inform the asset owner about the relevant data for their goods.

Pros

Sensor Data
Security
Integration
Scalability

Cons

Management Portal

Likelihood to Recommend

The system is well suited for use-cases where it is necessary to digitalize complex processes involving distributed assets such as Digital Twins, Maintenance use-cases, and Machine Digitalization as a whole.

Orlando Remédios

CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Sensefinity (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Very strong, secure and robust global IoT Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 22, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure IoT is being used as a central message, OTA, command and control platform for multiple connected devices hosted in different locations across the globe, including China. It acts as a distributed solution managing multiple use cases, interacting with third party APIs, mobile apps (20+) and consumers. Azure IoT also provides end to end security and ability to process billions of messages per second with great performance.

Pros

Very Strong Security Standards.
Good documentation and easy to implement.

Cons

Hardware and embedded integration could improve or be at parity with competitor.
Pricing model not as flexible as competitor.

Likelihood to Recommend

Extremely robust and scalable, Azure IoT can be easily deployed to manage and run any IoT infrastructure you need - messaging, notifications, business rule engine, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence. It integrates well with broader Azure offerings and other open source tools as well. Security is a pro, and user base is growing. Another benefit is geo availability, especially if you have to support different requirements like GDPR or China.

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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