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Exploring Device Management and Monitoring
This chapter looks at device management and how Azure IoT Hub automates many of the repetitive and complex tasks of managing large sets of devices. You will investigate how device twins are an essential tool for automating device management. You will also discover the essential monitoring and logging tools required for a secure IoT system.
In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:
- Introducing device twins
- Communicating with devices
- Automated device management
- Monitoring metrics and logs
- Lab – Automating IoT device management
- Lab – Creating and testing an alert
Introducing device twins
Device twins are a way of storing state data of your devices. They are JSON documents that contain ...
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