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Right now I'm here at the Azure IoT Central desk
with Miriam Berhane Russom. How are you?
>> I'm good. Thank you for having me.
>> Are you having a good show?
>> Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.
>> So, I've seen devices.
I always love to come to booth
whether they have a device that I can play with.
When you're doing something with Azure IoT,
sometimes I have like Arduino,
or Raspberry Pi, or a small IoT device.
What do I need the back-end for? What do I need that?
>> Yeah. Totally. I get your point totally.
So, we do have an MXChip device here as you see.
In fact you're interested in
specific sensors that this device has.
You can see we have temperature, pressure,
acceleration, and a bunch of
other cool things that we want
to measure from this device.
>> Is just a developer's kit?
>> Yeah.
>> May I hold?
>> This is totally a developer kit.
>> Okay. So, can we buy this now?
>> Yeah. Exactly. You can buy this now.
It's MXChip Azure IoT.
>> Okay.
>> So, it's really made actually to work with Azure IoT.
It's very easy to get connected.
>> Right.
>> And you don't have to think
about setting up the Cloud aspect
of it because Azure IoT Central
actually takes that away from you.
>> Really?
>> It makes it so easy.
You connect it, vola,
and you literally start looking at your data.
>> So, what kind of sensors? I see
a tiny screen, it's very nice in color.
>> Yeah, and then all of
these ones are like the sensors that we have.
We do have a motion sensor, magnetometer.
>> Yeah.
>> We do have the pressure sensor,
humidity, and temperature sensor.
>> Okay.
>> So, this kind of represents
a basic device that I can get it started on.
>> Absolutely.
>> My real device would have
the MXChip and then a different sensor
whatever my product is going to have.
>> Yeah. Exactly, and you'll see that most
of the times pretty much those are
the common type of sensors.
>> Right.
>> That you'll usually typically using IoT devices.
For your real needs,
you might start changing them maybe
if you want the temperature sensor,
depends on what type of use case you have.
>> Okay.
>> So, maybe if you want it for
an aeroplane or aerospace application,
probably you need a different type of sensor.
But basically, these are made
in such a way you can prototype with this.
You can design your device
prototype with this and then you
can go and really buy the real ones that you need.
>> Okay. Then, when I buy this devkit,
is there a sample code that comes along
that works in all the languages I want to use?
>> Absolutely. Yeah. There's a sample code.
We do actually have a firmware that
works right away with IoT Central.
>> Oh, really?
>> So, your experience becomes,
hey you go to IoT central aka.ms/IoTCentral,
you create an application,
we do have free trials,
and then you can actually choose one of
the sample applications that we have for devkits.
>> Right.
>> And you'll be able to find
actually all these developer kits.
So, you can see we have the MXChip developer kit,
we have the Raspberry Pi,
and we we have the SCM discovery kit,
and we also have,
it's not here but we do have Windows IoT Core as well.
Basically, once you have these device
we do have firmware that works with them,
and it's very easy to just get started.
So, for instance, for this one I will show you
how this device is described.
As you can see, the sensors that I've
described here they're all
listed here because I described,
I modeled my device in IoT Central.
>> Oh, wow. So, all of those is one device.
>> Exactly. And this is
real data that's coming out from this device.
So, your experience as a developer,
pretty much you get this kit,
you come to IoT Central,
you start with a template and then you can download
the former flashware device and it's
going to be connected to your application.
>> Then that information goes into
IoT Central and then I can
write an application to consume it,
and I can have one device or a billion.
>> Exactly. Absolutely. Actually, you're
not even writing an application,
meaning you're interest here
is actually to model your device.
So, you're describing your device.
This is the application that you will have.
As you said you can,
once you describe one specific device with the template,
then you can just connect hundreds of it really.
You don't have to redo the work all the time.
>> Whre can I by this?
>> This one you can actually go to
the Azure IoT device catalog
and then find all the ones that are Azure certified.
The MXChip happens to be one of
the Azure certified one
and then you can order it from there.
>> So, then if I buy something whether
it's MX or another chip,
if it's Azure certified,
it's guaranteed it'll work in IoT Central.
>> Yes. So, I would say we're working to our stack.
We do have the three one we're planning to add
two more that work out of the box
with IoT Central but our plan is actually to have
all possible developer kits
and actively somehow work as IoT Central.
>> Very cool. All right.
So, people can go up and check out Azure IoT Central,
they can look in the device catalog.
You can buy one and you can get this set up.
I actually have one of these and
it only took me maybe 15 minutes to set up.
>> Yeah. Absolutely. It's so easy
because now you just can set it up in 15 minutes,
and then you can see how it works,
and then you can start doing your own things with it.
It's very easy.
>> Very cool.
>> This is IoT made really simple and easy.
>> Very cool. Thank you so much Miriam.
>> Yeah. Thank you.
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