May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 48m
English
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Chapter 4
In this chapter, we turned our full attention to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub. This involved expanding our knowledge on the use of cloud service providers and what they offer us. We looked at virtual machines, as well as containers and serverless computing. We compared these services to the services that Microsoft Azure offers—infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and function as a service (FaaS).
The tutorial in this chapter gave us our first hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure as we built a simulated temperature sensor using Python and connected it to an Azure IoT Hub. Using the Device Explorer tool from Microsoft, we were able to view the simulated data by connecting to ...