Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub is a managed cloud service hosted in Microsoft Azure that acts as a central message hub for bidirectional communication between millions of IoT devices and a cloud solution backend. It enables secure, reliable, and scalable communication, supporting open protocols like MQTT, AMQP,…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2016
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Azure IoT Hub was created to address the complex challenges of securely connecting, managing, and ingesting data from millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices at scale, while also enabling reliable command-and-control capabilities from the cloud back to the devices. It provided a unified, robust, and secure platform for IoT solutions that previously required significant custom development and infrastructure overhead.
- Platforms
- Any device capable of network communication (via SDKs or direct protocol implementation), Microsoft Azure (cloud service)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Honeywell
- Rolls-Royce
- Schneider Electric
- ThyssenKrupp
- BMW
- ABB
- Starbucks