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Intended use of Azure's Device Provisioning Service for IoT hubs

Suppose I have many IoT devices in the field that are only powered on intermittently. These devices are automatically provisioned using Azure's DPS. Suppose also I'm using SAS token which expire in 24 ...
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Azure iot module twin update

I want to create an app to update the azure IoT edge module twin configuration. which is the best option? use the 'azure-iothub' package to update the twin directly from react app. create an express ...
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Make connection between react native & raspberry & MQTT

I am currently making an IoT App that I'm trying to connect to a Raspberry Pi using MQTT. I use the react_native_mqtt package. The problem I have is that it doesn't connect. What I'm trying to achieve ...
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Azure Service leverage IoT solution

We are working with an OBD-II device that we have directly bought from the manufacturer and want to create a platform for it. 80K+ devices will be used per year. The OBD-II device collects car ...
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What type of server would be better for embedded TCP/IP communication?

We want to setup a server in the Azure cloud. But we have no idea what type server would be best for working with the devices which uses embedded TCP/IP protocol. Device is a 4G based OBD-II Diagnose ...
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Where is my sensor data being stored in the IoT Hub?

Context: I am sending temp/humidity data from an NCD.io sensor through a gateway device to Azure, where it is being stored in the IoT Hub, somewhere. Problem: Where is this data? I can access it ...
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Open source IoT framework similar to Azure IoT

Are there any open source IoT frameworks/runtimes similar to Azure IoT but without vendor lockin, software that will basically run on bare metal device and pull down and run containerized images from ...
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IoT Dashboard for customers (data comes from Arduino)

I push my sensor readings from product A, B, C, D to an online cloud provider. Then my customer (call him E) needs to access all these sensor readings and make a dashboard for his customer X, Y Z. ...
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What is digital twin/device shadow?

I am confused with the terminology used with digital representation of physical device. Correct me if I am wrong. I understand, Digital twin as it is the JSON doc which is stored in one of file based ...
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IoT solutions, black box vs white box [closed]

I am having the following discussion with my colleagues and wanted to get some other people's opinions on this. We (a major global company) are currently working with several kinds of presence/people ...
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can I use Azure MXCHIP IoT DevKit with google cloud

https://www.seeedstudio.com/AZ3166-IOT-Developer-Kit.html I am planning to setup a project that can work with both google cloud IoT and Azure IoT. Is it possble to reuse Azure IoT kit for that ?
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How to communicate with IoT gateway with C# [closed]

I'm a C# web developer and I just started handling an IoT project. My goal is to have this set up: PIR Sensors > IoT Gateway > Website (ASP.NET Web Application C#) For now, I have PIR sensors (BLE)...
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How enrollment list in Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service isolate tenant specific configuration?

Some documentation and videos regarding Device Provisioning Service (DPS) says it can handle multitenancy but, it seem there is a confusion about how one tenant's configuration/data is isolated from ...
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Should there be one device provisioning service for one IoT hub if it is associated with one tenant?

I have a multi-tenancy situation where I have created one IoT hub per tenant. Now if I have 5 tenants, and I create 5 Iot hub, should I also create 5 device provisioning service for those 5 IoT hubs (...
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How to provision large scale of IoT devices with multitenancy as a major concern in Azure IoT?

I am using Azure sphere device with Azure device provisioning service (DPS) to connect to IoT hub. I know DPS is a good way to handle provisioning in multitenancy but, let's say I have 1000 Azure ...
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Transfer data from Python Script to the Cloud using Node Red [closed]

I am running a Python Script on a Raspberry Pi to get the data measured by a Smart Plug (voltage, current, energy, power). This data is being printed on the terminal of the Raspberry Pi, but what I ...
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How multitenency with azure IoT is handled?

My company is using Azure IoT services so my question is more specific to azure IoT cloud services. My project is about Azure sphere that sends data to Azure IoT hub and an Azure Event hub reads real ...
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Node red MQTT node cannot connect to Azure IoT Hub

I am aware that there is Azure IoT Hub palette in Node-red, which is specifically designed to interact with Azure IoT Hub. I tried that and it worked fine most of the time. However, due to an ...
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In Azure IoT Hub under IoT Edge, is a device a type of hardware or a specific device? [closed]

If I have built a temperature sensor and will install 100 of those, will I then in Azure IoT Hub under IoT Edge have one device (with 100 connected clients?) or will I have 100 devices? To clarify my ...
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Creating nested IoT field gateways with Azure and AWS

From what I have read and understood from their documentation is that only single layer IoT hierarchies can be maintained with either of their gateways. That is a field gateway(sort of like a smart ...
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Has anyone got the transparent MQTT gateway running in Azure IoT Edge?

One of the main purposes of IoT Edge is to localize the computation of the steady state (normal conditions) to the edge rather than in the cloud. Has anyone got Azure IoT Edge working as a "...
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Does events batch count as single or multiple events in Azure's Event Hubs/IoT Hub

Azure Event Hubs and IoT Hub services allows sending messages in batch to optimize sending. Say I am batching 10 messages, will it count as 10 messages or 1 message for billing?
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MQTT Connection Using Keep-Alive > 5 Minutes Silently Disconnects on Azure VM Broker?

Summary of the issue: Connecting to test.mosquitto.org or iot.eclipse.org with a keep alive of more than 5 minutes, and everything seems to work just as expected. Connecting to my broker (both on ...
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Subscibe to specific device with AWS or Azure IoT services

There are 1,000 IoT devices which need to send data to the cloud each second. There is a mobile app. The mobile app user can see messages from a single device at a time only. Is there any simple (...
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Creating a Tor 'hidden service' on Windows IoT Core

The Background I'm prototyping some basic home automation software using Windows IoT Core and Azure. I have built a Windows Universal Application that sends data to a Web App hosted in Azure via Web ...
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IoT device (siren) with RESTful APIs

I am fairly new to the IoT world, so I need help designing a system. Scenario: I have an application that sends messages to a Service Bus/ Message Queue in Azure. The messages can be classified into ...
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How does an Azure IoT Hub interact with Embedded/IoT devices?

I am working on the Azure IoT platform, and I understand how devices send data to the IoT hub (if I am not wrong, It is just web service call or something similar to that). But I wonder how the IoT ...
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