May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 48m
English
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Understanding Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
So, what exactly is Microsoft Azure IoT Edge? How does it differ from the other edge analytics applications we have discussed up till now? We can understand Azure IoT Edge a little bit better if we view Azure IoT Hub as if it were a typical remote server, and the installation of Azure IoT Edge on a physical edge device as if it were an edge computing platform. More precisely, though, Azure IoT Edge is a form of distributed computing whereby Azure modules are copied to the physical edge device, as illustrated in the following diagram:
In the preceding diagram, we can see that Azure IoT is remote-based ...