Device To Cloud Connectivity with Azure IoT Hub

IoT (Internet of Things) and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) are very common words come to our mind when we buy a new smart electronic appliance or we drive a new car or think about a sophisticated manufacturing plants.

To make the Things really intelligent not only we capture the events generated from these, we analyze the events, predict the future, visualize the details and act based on the analysis & prediction.

Source: https://aka.ms/manufacturingusecase

Depending on the use case, all or few of the above steps can be performed locally (on-premise) or, events can be transferred into cloud for complex processing.

As an example, different sophisticated devices are now coming up with its own edge computing AI/ML features embedded in the chip.

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On the other hand for IIoT cases, there are software available at the plant level to display KPIs or highlight the alerts.