Azure IoT Central for Beginners: Your First IoT Prototype
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Who should take this course?
- You’ve got an IoT (Internet of Things) project idea but find cloud services intimidating
- You’re curious about the field of IoT (internet of things) & want to learn by building.
- If you are a tinkerer who already has some microcontrollers prototype but little to no experience with the cloud, you’ll benefit from learning about Microsoft Azure Services to enhance your project scalability and presentation.
- You’re considering a Microsoft AZ-220 certification but want to get a taste of what it’s about before committing.
Prerequisites
- Willingness to learn (tech industry helpful but not needed since we cover topics of Cloud Computing, IoT, Microsoft Azure from scratch)
- No RaspberriPi, ESP32, or other additional hardware is required as we will use devices already available at home
Course Style
- No PowerPoints – most people are visual learners so I teach using whiteboards, screen shares, and images while always showing my face. This I believe to significantly increase rentention.
- Clear overviews at the end of each section outlining the objectives.
- Practical content
- all lectures with the exception of the fundamentals section have actionable steps you can take.
- 3 assignments that get you to build your own IoT Central App and plan for the future
- 2 quizzes that enhance your retention
What will you learn?
- Create your own fully managed IoT SaaS (software-as-a-service) that can be easily scaled as the number of global customers grow by using Microsoft IoT Central (UPDATED FOR 2022)
- Understand the significance of pay-as-you-go pricing models, how to estimate pricing, and avoid surprise bills.
- Learn about Cloud Computing and Internet of Things from scratch.
- Understand the trends and opportunities: why SaaS (Software-as-a-service) products are relying on Cloud Solutions and how that relates to the IoT industry.
- Learn about the major IoT services offered by Microsoft Azure and when to choose between IoT Hub, Azure IoT Central, IoT Edge, and IoT Sphere
- Review existing cutting-edge IoT apps and brainstorm on products ideas of your own.
- How to ingest, analyze, and detect patterns in your data using Microsoft Azure Cloud Solutions.
- Build your first end-to-end no-code prototype using sensor data already available in your home (no additional hardware/electronics purchases are required for this course).
- Set up your own IoT Central pipeline that ingests data from the real world, provides insights through a customizable front end, and delivers notifications based on custom rules.
- Join a community of IoT (Internet of Things) tinkerers looking to make their projects a reality by deploying and configuring Azure IoT Central Applications
My name is Manuel Arredondo and I have worked in the software industry for the past decade: from mobile development, real-time client/server communication, and backend.
I love to help others get started in my field because there was never a better time to create.
We’ve got amazing tools that allow you to turn your ideas into reality faster than ever, you just need to take the plunge. I hope to get you excited about this industry and be your guide along the way.
Course Structure
- Learn fundamentals of Cloud: definitions, benefits, features and historical perspective.
- Understand the different types of Cloud Services made available by cloud providers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google: SaaS (software-as-a-service) , PaaS (platform-as-a-service), IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service).
- Learn the fundamentals of Internet of Things (IoT), explore real-life IoT products and get inspired to create your own.
- Overview of Microsoft Azure Services related to IoT such as Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Sphere, Azure IoT Edge, and understand which ones to use depending on your usecase
- Create your own Microsoft Azure Account and Subscription so you can configure and deploy your own Azure IoT Central Application
- Understand the role of pay-as-you-go model and learn how to estimate pricing depending on your chosen architecture.
- Link your own smartphone/table (iOS or Android) devices to your IoT Central instance.
- Visualize and analyze sensor data such as: geolocation, barometer, magnetometer, battery life, accelerometer, gyroscope
- Build beautiful dashboards that are completely customizable and accessible over the internet.
- Manage members, giving them varying degrees of access based on their roles.
- Using IoT Central’s Rules engine, define boundary conditions that will automatically be detected in the Cloud.
- Automatically email messages when certain events occur.
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WelcomeWelcome to Learn Azure IoT: Build your Weekend Prototype
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Overview of Section 1 - Fundamentals
The first section is all about the fundamentals, in this lecture I briefly outline the upcoming lectures
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Cloud Computing Crash Course
In this lecture, we will review the fundamentals of cloud computing.
What is the cloud? Why have companies moved away from hosting their own data centers? What are the benefits?
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Are you ready for cloud?A quick recap of the concepts we just covered. Let's see if you've got the basics down.
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IOT 101
By the end of this lecture, you will understand:
The trends behind the internet of things
Details behind the buzzword
Types of sensors you can use.
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Sensor types
By the end of this lecture, you will have gotten an idea on different sensors available and hopefully get motivated to work in this space.
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Azure IOT Services
In this lecture, we will learn about Microsoft cloud technologies that make it easy to build an end-to-end internet of things solution
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Is Internet of Things your Thing?
Before we go on, let's do a quick knowledge check on what we mean by Internet of Things, and what you can do with Microsoft's Azure IoT services.
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Overview of Section 2 - Getting Setup
Brief overview of what we'll cover in Section 2 of this course
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Pricing
Use Azure's pricing calculator to estimate costs for any cloud architecture.
Get an idea of how much you can get away with building without paying anything for your IoT Central project.
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Your Azure Account
Walkthrough for accessing the azure portal and creating the necessary accounts
Brief look at the portal and how to search for resources to deploy
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What we're going to build
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Overview of Section 3 - Building our Prototype
By the end of this lecture, you will have a clear idea of what Section 3 is all about
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Creating an IOT Central App
By the end of this lecture, you will be able to:
Configure and deploy a custom IoT Central application.
Deploy an IoT central application based on existing templates.
Navigate your way around your IoT Central Instances.
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Linking our smartphones to IOT Central
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Gaining Insights through the Dashboard & Data Explorer
By the end of this lecture, you will be able to:
Create queries using the data explorer to drill down into your telemetry.
Create a custom dashboard for the administrator or other members of your site to visualize a snapshot of the system.
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Overview of Section 4 - Taking actions on your telemetry
Get an idea for what Section 4 will be about
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Rules & Actions - Tracking device activity
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Remotely executing commands
After completing this lecture you will know how to:
Execute commands on specific devices
Run commands on device groups
Schedule commands for a future time and stagger delivery in batches
