The Internet of things (IoT) is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as “connected devices” and “smart devices”), buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity which enable these objects to collect and exchange data. The IoT allows objects to be sensed or controlled remotely across existing […]
Read more →Category: Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies include a variety of technologies such as educational technology, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive science, psychotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
IoT Hub vs Event Hub–A quick comparison
With this article I am trying to provide you a birds eye view comparison of IoT Hub and Azure Event Hub, so that some of you may stop feeling that there is nothing new in IoT Hub. For the interest of this article, I put together a table with side-by-side comparison of some important features/desired […]
Read more →Introduction to IoT Hub
IoT Hub is a fully managed service from Microsoft Azure as part of Azure IoT Suite that enables reliable and secure bi-directional communications between millions of IoT devices and your solution back end. Azure IoT Hub are designed to provide following capabilities: Multiple device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device communication options, including one-way messaging, file transfer, and request-reply […]
Read more →Azure IoT Hub Device Management–Released to Public
Today Microsoft has announced general availability of Azure IoT Hub Device Management. With this release Azure IoT Hub subscribers/customers will be able to get access to following features and functionalities: Device twin. Use a digital representation of your physical devices to synchronize device conditions and operator configuration between the cloud and device. Direct methods. Apply […]
Read more →Azure: What are Event Hubs?
Event Hubs is a feature within the Azure and is intended to help with the challenge of handling an event based messaging at huge scale. To be specific it is a Highly scalable data streaming platform. The idea is that if you have apps or devices publishing telemetry events then Event Hubs can be the […]
Read more →Scalability – Scale Out/In vs Scale Up/Down (Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling)
When you work with Cloud Computing or normal Scalable highly available applications you would normally hear two terminologies called Scale Out and Scale Up or often called as Horizontal Scaling and Vertical Scaling. I thought about covering basics and provide more clarity for developers and IT specialists. What is Scalability? Scalability is the capability of […]
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