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Azure IoT Development Cookbook

You're reading from Azure IoT Development Cookbook Develop and manage robust IoT solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787283008

Length 254 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Azure

Concepts

IoT Development

Author (1):

Yatish Patil

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Getting Started with the Azure IoT Platform FREE CHAPTER

2. Introducing Device Management

3. IoT Hub Messaging and Commands

4. Azure IoT Communication Protocols

5. Azure IoT Hub Security and Best Practices

6. IoT Suite and Pre-Configured Solutions

7. Azure IoT Analytics

8. Using Real Devices to Connect and Implement Azure IoT Hub

9. Managing the Azure IoT Hub

Device explorer for the Azure IoT Hub

Microsoft Azure provides a tool device explorer, which helps you manage devices by connecting to the IoT Hub that you have created. It is simple to connect and perform some basic operations for device management, and it even reads messages, sends commands, and executes direct methods.

Getting ready

You can download the device explorer from https://github.com/Azure/azure-iot-sdks/releases. See the SetupDeviceExplorer.msi file available under the download section.

This tool gets installed on your local machine, and you can easily operate it. In this recipe, we are going to see how it is used for connecting and managing the IoT Hub. It works with IoT endpoints to perform the following task:

Device identity management
Receive device-to-cloud messages
Send cloud-to-device messages

Using these, we can manage the devices in the IoT Hub, read device-to-cloud messages, and send cloud-to-device messages.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will use the device explorer tool...

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Authors (1)

Yatish Patil

Yatish Patil

Yatish Patil is currently working with Saviant Consulting as a technical project manager. He has delivered enterprise IoT and analytics applications using Microsoft Azure, ASP.NET, MVC, C#, SQL Server, and NoSQL. He has diverse industrial experience in IT and has worked in a variety of domains, such as utilities, manufacturing, and engineering. He has completed his certification in Developing Azure Solutions in the Microsoft Azure Certification. Yatish was also the technical reviewer for a Microsoft Azure-based technology book Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials, which teaches guides Microsoft Azure subscribers how to design, configure, and build cloud-based infrastructure using Microsoft Azure. Yatish was among the industry speakers at India IoT Symposium, 2016. He delivered the industry session on remote asset monitoring with Microsoft Azure IoT Suite.

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