>> Hi, everyone. Thank you
for taking the time to watch this video.
My name is Sandeep Pujar.
I'm a Program Manager on the Azure IoT Central.
I focus on device connectivity,
device management, and device modeling.
Today we going to talk about three things,
we are going to talk about, one,
how easy and simple it is to
connect devices that are already known,
meaning that are Azure certified.
We work with a bunch of device partners
to get them onboard onto our platform.
We'll also talk about how easy and simple it is for you
to build your own devices and create models around it,
create visualizations around it,
and use the full breadth of IoT Central experience,
so that's the second one.
The third one is, once you've done that,
how can you easily scale that into a production environment,
how can you connect them more securely
and also rotate to production right away.
Those are the three topics
that we'll quickly cover in the discussion today.
What you see on the screen here today on the demo,
this is where you see all the devices
that have been Azure certified for plug and play.
They automatically work out of the box with IoT central.
If you are a solution developer,
you would essentially come in here,
pick a device based on your solutions needs,
and then click away and then create a solution for yourself,
buy these devices, connect them and you have
an end-to-end solution ready within literally minutes.
You don't have to basically spin up anything on the Cloud side,
you didn't have to write a single line
of code on the device side,
you have the entire experience ready and
the solution ready fairly quickly.
That is the promise of IoT Central.
The other thing I would call out is
like you can connect a range of devices and you
have a simple USB 32 device that you can
connect here or you can connect
a fairly complex device like the one behind me,
which is a MOXA gateway again,
in the industrial setup.
IoT Central caters for this wide range of devices,
so you can connect simple and complex devices.
As we upscale our solutions
and experiences to the industrial IoT scenarios,
we are engaged and working very closely
with a bunch of IoT connectivity partners,
for example, there is CloudRAIL, there's Ignition,
so we're bringing a lot of
those Cloud IoT connectivity partners on
the IoT Central and then making it simple for
a lot of IoT customers to connect the device into IoT Central,
so they're also making that part simple.
Let's go to the second part now,
where you have your own device and you are
trying to bring that to IoT Central connect
that and then interact and then
build the experiences with IoT Central.
We will quickly look into that.
Here for our demo, what I have is a simple device connected.
It's a simple thermostat that I
have and the moment I connected the device again,
you as a user or developer would have to put
the right credentials in the device and once you connect that,
you basically see the device connected
and see the raw data that is
on data that the device is sending on here,
so it's a fairly easy way for you to connect and start
seeing the value of the connected data in the Cloud,
so you already see that.
The second part is you can also
interact with the device, for example,
this device has a Cloud to
device message backup or
a command pattern that is implemented on the device,
so if you have that you can
quickly run that and interact with the device,
for example, here as I said,
this device has a command called "get my support,"
basically push the minimax data
for the thermostat from the device,
so I'm just going to basically run the command here.
The idea here is you can not only get
the device to the Cloud data in a raw data format,
but you can also interact with the device from the Cloud back,
so that's what we did here.
Now that you have figured out how to interact with the device,
see the data in the Cloud,
you want to do a little more with this device.
You want to build a much more detailed experience with
central and provide or build a model for it.
You can quickly do that without having to go through
writing out of the model
itself by quickly inferring it based on the incoming data.
You would basically go here and
auto create template and when you do that,
you're presented with a bunch of telemetries
that is coming in, and then you say, yeah,
this looks great, go create a model for me,
so you will create a model in that sense.
Again, what model has or template helps IoT Central is
it will provide IoT Central the
context of what the data is or the shape for the data is,
so that in IoT Central can build
a much more richer set of experiences,
for example, you can build a dashboard for this device.
You can build rules and
alerts on the device based on the data that is coming in.
A lot of that is also interesting
when you model the device from an IoT Central perspective.
The second part was about,
you can easily connect the device,
you can interact with the device,
you can see the raw data,
and you can create a model without having to offset and all that,
but just by clicking
a few buttons and inferring the models based on the data.
Finally, we look at a few security aspects,
especially when you're trying to scale
your solutions or scale
your devices into a production environment.
One of the key concerns is how can I connect that and if
these devices in a more secure way. That's covered as well.
Again, if you look at the support here,
you'd go into a security section from the device and
we have this concept of device enrollment groups.
Again, very basically group a lot of
these devices and then back them up
with a surface authentication so that you
can securely connect those devices into the Cloud.
That's the scale motion for
connecting devices to the Cloud in a more secure fashion.
You can connect simple node devices
out of the box without a central,
you can bring your own devices,
model what you need in IoT Central and
leverage all the experiences in IoT Central
and then finally scale that into
production environment and then take it to your customers.
That's in a nutshell what we covered here.
Thanks a lot for watching this video,
I hope this was really useful to
you and if you want to learn more,
here are some links.
Thank you so much.