Business in Real-Time Using Azure IoT and Cortana Intelligence Suite: Driving Your Digital Transformation

© Bob Familiar and Jeff Barnes 2017

Bob Familiar and Jeff Barnes, Business in Real-Time Using Azure IoT and Cortana Intelligence Suite, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2650-6_4

4. Sensors, Devices, and Gateways

Bob Familiar¹  and Jeff Barnes²

(1)Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA

(2)Miami, Florida, USA

Chapters 2 and 3 focused on the core processes that must in place when embarking on an IoT and advanced analytics digital transformation journey, namely DevOps and Device Management. This chapter looks at the world of sensors, devices, and gateways. Although we won’t be able to cover all the possible permutations of hardware and software, we will touch upon some of the more common scenarios we encounter and how they relate and work together to create a consistent, secure, ...