Introduction

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

Login using the account for your Azure subscription.

Create/Setup IoT Hub instance

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

Documentation

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

Setup a device identity

  • 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

(Next Steps - Optional) Simulate a device on your machine and send messages to your IoT Hub instance

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