8 min read
Equipment Monitoring on Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, End to End
One sensor-monitoring design on Fabric Real-Time Intelligence: where to filter, enrich, aggregate and alert, and what Eventhouse retention costs you.
IoT
34 articles
1 min read
Christmas Eve Automation: Building a Holiday Light Controller with Azure IoT
A fun project that combines cloud, IoT, and holiday spirit. Merry Christmas Eve!
1 min read
Edge AI Deployment: Running ML Models on Azure IoT Edge
Configure the edge deployment with appropriate resource limits and restart policies for reliable operation in edge environments with limited connectivity.
1 min read
Real-Time Streaming Analytics with Azure Stream Analytics and Event Hubs
Enrich streaming data with reference data lookups for context-aware processing and alerting in real-time scenarios.
1 min read
Edge AI Architecture: Designing for On-Device Intelligence
Edge AI architecture balances latency, privacy, and capability across processing tiers.
1 min read
Edge AI Improvements: Deploying Intelligence at the Data Source
Edge AI Improvements: Deploying Intelligence at the Data Source
1 min read
Edge AI Deployment: Taking Models to the Data
Sometimes the data can't come to the cloud. Today I'm exploring strategies for deploying AI models at the edge.
1 min read
Edge Computing with Azure
Edge computing with Azure provides the foundation for intelligent, responsive, and resilient IoT solutions.
1 min read
Designing End-to-End IoT Solution Architecture on Azure
This architecture provides a scalable, secure foundation for enterprise IoT solutions on Azure.
1 min read
Azure IoT Security Best Practices
Implementing these security best practices creates a defense-in-depth approach for your IoT solutions.
1 min read
Device Twin Patterns for IoT Applications
Device twins provide the foundation for managing device state, configuration, and organization in IoT solutions.
1 min read
Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service Deep Dive
DPS is essential for deploying and managing IoT devices at scale across multiple regions and IoT Hubs.
1 min read
Azure IoT Hub Updates and New Features in 2022
These IoT Hub updates enable more sophisticated device management and data processing scenarios.
1 min read
Edge Computing Database Patterns and Best Practices
Handle intermittent connectivity by storing data locally and forwarding when connected. Reduce data volume by aggregating at the edge before cloud sync.
1 min read
Database Patterns for IoT Applications
These patterns form the foundation for building scalable, performant IoT database solutions.
1 min read
Azure SQL Edge for IoT and Edge Computing
Azure SQL Edge enables intelligent edge computing with the familiar SQL Server programming model.
1 min read
Time-Series Data at Scale with Citus and TimescaleDB
This architecture handles billions of time-series data points while maintaining query performance for both real-time and historical analysis.
1 min read
Edge AI: Deploying Machine Learning at the Edge
Edge AI in 2021 became accessible to mainstream developers. Azure IoT Edge, ONNX Runtime, and improved hardware made edge deployment practical for real…
1 min read
Azure Percept: Edge AI Development Made Simple
Azure Percept makes edge AI accessible to developers without deep expertise in hardware or ML. Combined with Azure's cloud services, it enables…
1 min read
Edge Computing with Azure Stack Edge
Model GPU Use Case Pro (GPU) NVIDIA T4 AI inference, video analytics Pro (FPGA) Intel Arria 10 Hardware acceleration Pro R Rugged Harsh environments Mini R…
1 min read
Video Intelligence with Azure Video Analyzer
Azure Video Analyzer brings intelligent video analytics to both edge and cloud, enabling sophisticated spatial analysis and event detection for security…
10 min read
The Hybrid Cloud Journey with Microsoft Azure
Hybrid cloud is the trend right now I see in a lot of companies and enterprises. The term hybrid has grown too in the last couple of years. It used to be…
2 min read
Azure Percept: Edge AI Development Made Accessible
The goal is reducing the time from idea to edge-deployed AI from months to days. The platform uses Azure Custom Vision under the hood but abstracts away the…
1 min read
Azure RTOS for Real-Time IoT Applications
ThreadX : RTOS kernel with preemptive scheduling NetX Duo : TCP/IP network stack (IPv4 and IPv6) FileX : FAT compatible embedded file system GUIX : Graphics…
1 min read
Azure Sphere for Secured IoT Device Development
1. Azure Sphere MCU : Secured silicon with hardware based security 2. Azure Sphere OS : Linux based secured operating system 3. Azure Sphere Security…
2 min read
Azure Digital Twins for Smart Environment Modeling
Azure Digital Twins was the service that reframed how I think about IoT data. Most IoT architectures I'd built treated device telemetry as a stream: events…
2 min read
Azure IoT Hub Device Twins for State Management
Device twins are the feature in Azure IoT Hub that solved a problem I didn't fully appreciate until a client had 3,000 industrial sensors in two factories…
1 min read
Azure Stream Analytics for Real-Time Data Processing
Azure Stream Analytics sits in a specific niche that I've come to appreciate: SQL-native stream processing for teams who shouldn't have to learn Spark or…
8 min read
Azure Data Explorer for IoT Telemetry: Ingestion, Caching and Rollups
Designing an Azure Data Explorer database for device telemetry: queued vs streaming ingestion, hot cache sizing, materialized views and KQL time series.
1 min read
Azure IoT Central: Managed IoT Platform
Christmas Day, and a quiet thought from a quiet house: most "IoT projects" never get past slide three because the team doesn't have the platform to back the…
1 min read
Azure IoT Edge: Intelligence at the Edge
Streaming every sensor reading to the cloud sounds clean until you cost the bandwidth, or until the 4G link in the back of a truck drops for an hour. IoT…
1 min read
Azure Time Series Insights: IoT Analytics at Scale
A general-purpose database can store time-stamped data. It just gets sad about it once you're past a few hundred million rows and someone wants a five-year…
1 min read
Azure Digital Twins: Model the Physical World
A facility manager I worked with last year asked the same question every IoT pitch eventually triggers: "great, you can stream sensor data—but can you tell…
1 min read
Azure Stream Analytics: Real-Time Data Processing
Stream Analytics is one of those services I keep recommending and clients keep being surprised by — SQL on top of an event firehose, with windowing and…