IoT Hub Lab

Introduction

The main Azure portal is https://portal.azure.com.

IoT Hub is the cloud gateway, which is the entrypoint for your devices or field gateways to send messages to the Cloud.

Click on + create a resource in the top left corner of the portal
Select on Internet of Things in the newly opened blade
Select IoT Hub
Give a unique name for your IoT hub for e.g., iothubpractice (you can give the name of your choice)
Select the pricing tier, you can choose the F1 Free tier
Under IoT Hub Units enter 1 as units which determines the number of messages in your daily quota
For Device to Cloud partitions select 4 partitions - your messages will be divided into the configured number or partitions in the IoT Hub
Select your subscription, in my case it is Microsoft Azure Internal Subscription (Note: You might have a different subscription)
Resource Group - A resource group is a logical grouping of the resources which helps to easily manage the related resources. You can use any existing resource group or create a new one for e.g., iot_hub_labs_rg
Select the location as WEST EUROPE and click on create button - this may take few minutes to initialize your IoT Instance
- You can navigate to the IoT Hub instance once created:
- Notification bell is on the top right corner which shows the status of the IoT Hub setup, once completed;
- Click on notification bell and click on Go to resource button
Congrats! you have now setup your IoT Hub instance

Internet of Things industry case-studies, customer success stories and useful documentation links:

Link	Description
IoT Hub	Overview of IoT Hub
IoT Case Studies	Industry case-studies on Internet of Things
IoT Customer Stories	Azure customer success stories in Internet of Things
Products	Main page for Azure Products
Pricing	Pricing and TCO Calculators, plus pricing page for each product
Documentation	Azure documentation, quickstarts, SDKs and APIs etc.
Architecture	Patterns and Reference Architecture
Learning Paths	Guided (and finite) paths for learning a new area

Access the IoT Hub instance through the portal
- Click on All Resources - this will list all the resources under your subscription
- Select the IoT Hub instance created in previous step for e.g., iothubpractice
Scroll through the options in the newly opened blade and select IoT Devices
Click on + Add button
Give a unique device id say iot-practice-dev
Select authentication type as Symmettric Key
Check the Auto Generate Keys
Check the Enable under Connect device to IoT Hub
Click on save

Refer to below link for simulating a device and sending messages to IoT Hub in your preferred lanugage, Simulate Device and Send messages to IoT Hub