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Hands-On Edge Analytics with Azure IoT
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Hands-On Edge Analytics with Azure IoT

by Colin Dow
May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2

In this chapter, we took a deeper look into how edge analytics works. We looked at some of the sensors we may use to measure the world around us, as well as a few of the devices that may serve as our edge devices. Part of the chapter was devoted to looking at some of the amazing microcontrollers available on the market today. As these microcontrollers become more and more powerful, we will certainly see a day when they will replace computers with operating systems as the brains behind an edge analytics application.

We dug a little deeper into Microsoft Azure IoT Edge, providing a background to be used in future chapters.

In our tutorial, we built a weather predictor using an ESP-12F microcontroller and a red, green, and blue (

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