Azure IoT Development Cookbook

Device jobs

In a typical scenario, the device administrator or operators are required to manage devices in bulk. In the earlier sections, we looked at the device twin, which maintains properties and tags. Conceptually, the job is nothing but a wrapper on the possible actions, which can be done in bulk.

Suppose we have a scenario in which we need to update the properties for multiple devices; in such a case, one can schedule the job and track the progress of the job. I would like to set the frequency to send the data every 1 hour instead of every 30 minutes for 1000 IoT devices. Another example could be to reboot multiple devices at the same time.

Device administrators can perform device registrations in bulk using the export and import methods. ...