Microsoft Azure IoT - One new product and some new capabilities for Azure IoT Suite!

Big series of announcements today, see the Microsoft IoT Blog for the full details.

Synopsis:

1. Introducing Microsoft IoT Central a new SaaS solution to simplify implementation of IoT. For more information visit the IoT Central site or watch the video.
2. Microsoft Azure IoT Suite Connected Factory A new pre-configured solution has been added to the Azure IoT Suite: Connected Factory, which helps accelerate a customer’s journey to Industrie 4.0 and makes it easy to connect on-premises OPC UA and OPC Classic devices to the Microsoft cloud and get insights to help drive operational efficiencies. For further details see our 6 Step Interactive Whitepaper and Technical Blog.
3. Microsoft Azure Time Series Insights a fully managed analytics, storage and visualisation service that makes it simple to interactively and instantly explore and analyse billions of events from an IoT solution. For more information visit our Time Series Insights page, Technical Blog and Product Documentation pages.
4. Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics on edge devices a new feature of Azure Stream Analytics that extends the benefits of this unique streaming technology from the cloud down to the device level. To learn more, read our technical blog post and sign up for the Azure Stream Analytics preview today.
5. Microsoft Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning service. This simplifies the enrolment process, enabling organisations to automatically register and provision their devices to IoT Hub in a secure and scalable way while saving time and resources. Device Provisioning will work with any type of IoT device already supported by Azure IoT Hub. See our Technical Blog for more information.
6. Security partners bring silicon to the age of IoT. Azure IoT now supports the industry wide security standards Device Identity Composition Engine (DICE) and Hardware Security Module (HSM). The DICE standard enables manufacturers to use silicon gates to create device identification based in hardware, making security hardware part of the DNA of new devices from the ground up. HSMs are the core security technology used to secure device identities and provide advanced functionality such as hardware-based device attestation and zero-touch provisioning. To learn more, read our technical blog post.

To start your IoT journey with Microsoft Azure visit www.internetofyourthings.com