The table below contains a quick summary of the IoT protocols: Protocol CoAP XMPP RESTful HTTP MQTT AMQP Transport UDP TCP TCP TCP TCP Messaging Request/Response Publish/Subscribe Request/Response Request/Response Publish/Subscribe Request/Response Topic based Publish/Subscribe 2G, 3G, 4G Suitability (1000s nodes) Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent LLN Suitability (1000s nodes) Excellent Fair Fair Fair Excellent Compute […]
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Internet of Things (IoT)–Introduction
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 →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 →Microsoft Developer Program for IoT & Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview
Microsoft has introduced a new developer program to enable the developers working on Internet of Things(IoT) based implementations. As part of this program developers would be able to try out – Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview. If you are an enthusiast working on IoT, you can signup @ https://www.windowsondevices.com/signup.aspx allows you to be early […]
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