#CONNECT17
Maturing IoT solutions with
Microsoft Azure
Sam Vanhoutte
CTO
@SamVanhoutte

Leveraging IoT to achieve
innovation & agility
2

Helping customers in selecting and testing
the right compute devices
Remote monitoring
3

Innovative energy management for
industry, building & grid
An energy platform for a big eco-system
4

Selling added value services,
instead of just industrial machines
Industrial IoT
5

IoT End-to-End Value Chain
6

Focus on quick value creation
• Quick & fast connectivity
• Often using simulated devices
• Telemetry ingestion
• Reporting, visualization & basic integration
• Data storage & basic analytics (time series)
• Business rules
Proof of concepts
Robustness, reliability & security
• Reliability, buffering & retries
• Remote updates
• Security hardening
• Bandwith & compute optimization
• Edge capabilities & local actions
• Multi-tenancy, privacy & GDPR
• Logistics & deployment automation
Real world deployments
Proof of concepts vs reality

Time spent in project phases
Real world deployments
Proof of concepts vs reality
Time spent in project phases
Proof of concepts

Microsoft Azure IoT

The Azure IoT Landscape
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PaaSServices&
DeviceSupport
Azure IoT Edge
Edge Support
Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub
Device Provisioning
Service
IoT Services
Azure Time Series
Insights
Azure Machine
Learning
Azure Stream
Analytics
Cosmos DB Azure Data Lake
Azure Data Lake
Analytics
Azure HD Insight
Spark, Storm,
Kafka
Azure Event Hubs
Data & Analytics Services
Microsoft Flow
Azure Logic Apps
Notification Hubs
Azure Websites
Microsoft Power
BI
Azure Active
Directory
Azure Monitor
Visualization & Integration Services
IoTSolutions
(SaaS)
Microsoft IoT Central
IoT SaaS
Microsoft Connected Field Service
Field Service SaaS
Device Support
Azure IoT Device
SDK
Certified Devices
Azure Certified for
IoT
Security Program
for Azure IoT
Windows 10 IoT
Core
IoTSolutions
(PaaS)
Remote Monitoring Predictive Maintenance Connected factory
Azure IoT Suite

The business case
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Without creating a buy-in on executive level,
IoT solutions rarely make it into production

Open platforms
12
Without sharing results or providing an open platform,
your customers adoption might be not great

pitfalls on the way to a
mature IoT solution

Connectivity
14
Assuming stable cloud connectivity will not benefit the stability of your solution

Retrofitting challenge
15
Neglecting your current installed-base means your project will have
a time-to-value of years

Edge capabilities
Forgetting aggregation or filtering can result in unnecessary costs

Security
When your first security audit isn’t organized by you, you’re in for some trouble

Patch & update
Not implementing a remote update strategy will cost more money in the end.

Spend your time and money wisely
Don’t spend effort developing these:
• Message handling implementation
• Robust retry, resiliency
• Remote updates
• Transport protocol implementation
• Credential management
• Health reporting and diagnostics
• Message persistence
• Remote monitoring
Commodity
Spend effort developing these:
• Edge analytics
• Backend automation
• Data Analytics & predictions
• Own protocol implementations
• Business logic modules
• Rich reporting, visualizations & apps
Value generators

Announcing: Nebulus™ IoT Gateway
– Software field gateway
– 100% remotely controlled
– Cross platform (Windows, Linux, Docker)
– Extensible & flexible

Azure IoT Edge IoT Hub
Devices
Local Storage
Nebulus IoT
Gateway
(Container)
Functions
RuntimeContainer
Management
Supporting Azure IoT Edge
– Container based modules
– Azure Functions
– Azure Stream Analytics
– Azure Machine Learning
– Cognitive Services
– Offline / Synchronized Device Twins
– Local Storage
– Cloud Management & Deployment
– High Availability / Fault Tolerance
– Cloud Dev/Test Support
Device
Twin
Device
Twin
Azure Stream
Analytics
(Container)
Azure Functions
(Container)
Cognitive Services
(Container)
Azure Machine
Learning
(Container)
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Thank you!
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