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Ask the IoT Expert: Ask us any IoT Security Questions you have in September
Secure transmission of data from devices in the field can be challenging depending on the business environment. What do you do if you have a need to create an IoT Solution that operates on an offshore oil rig? How do you securely transmit data from devices that may have been installed over a decade ago? This month we’re starting off the Ask the IoT expert series focusing on IoT and security. We are looking for your questions and ideas and we’ll respond, so go ahead and ask us anything! My name is Martin Tuip and I’m the worldwide Azure IoT Security and Windows IoT Marketing Lead at Microsoft and joined by a team of Microsoft IoT experts to answer any questions you may have regarding this topic: Arjmand Samuel (all up IoT security expert), Eustace Asanghanwa (security at the edge expert) Nicole Berdy (all things DPS and more) and Ramit Malhotra (all up IoT security and certificates expert). If you have any questions regarding IoT security, please leave them as comments in this very discussion and one of us will be here to answer it. To make this Ask the IoT Expert globally inclusive the Q&A will play out in this post and last for the whole month of September. You can also count on us leaving hints and tips throughout the month in this post. Developers, we’re looking forward to your questions – please ask away! Martin #iot#azureiot#Developer#IoTArchitect#RealWorldScenario #IoTSecurityAsk The IoT Expert: Azure Sphere, Embedded Hardware, and IoT Security
Are you running into questions while working on projects built around Azure Sphere and embedded hardware like the Raspberry Pi? Do you have ideas that you want to share around IoT security in general or the projects you are working on? Today we are kicking off an Ask The Expert series where a variety of Microsoft Azure IoT experts will be starting a conversation to answer any questions you may have. This week I’m leading the #JulyOT conversation where we are showcasing content on building projects using Azure Internet of Things services, specifically having to do with microcontrollers and embedded hardware. I’m Dave Glover, a Cloud Developer Advocate, based in Sydney, Australia, with a focus on the Internet of Things. I’m fascinated by the possibilities of embedded, communications, AI, and cloud technologies. I am known to dream in C/C++, C# and Python, and I post on GitHub at https://github.com/gloveboxes, everything is Open Source with an MIT licence. What has captured my attention is embedded development with Azure Sphere as it addresses IoT security. IoT security is without a doubt the biggest challenge facing the IoT industry and often the most overlooked. IoT solutions built on Azure Sphere are secure by default enabling you to focus on your business opportunity with confidence knowing that security is baked in. I wrote the Azure Sphere Developer Learning Path which is now published on MS Learn: “Develop secure IoT Solutions for Azure Sphere with IoT Central” and “Develop secure IoT Solutions for Azure Sphere with IoT Hub”. I learned a lot of lessons and you will find my learnings and best practices embedded in the MS Learn modules. I’ve also just published two “embedded” articles as part of #JulyOT. Both expand on the Azure Sphere Developer Learning path. The topics might be a bit cheesy, but the objective is to illustrate how you can build secure IoT solutions with Azure Sphere and Azure IoT. How to build a healthier working environment by monitoring CO2, temperature, and humidity levels with an Azure Sphere, an SDC30 sensor, and Azure IoT Central Build a Rover combining the best of Azure Sphere security with FreeRTOS I’m looking forward to hearing your ideas and questions – please post them as comments and I’ll do my best to help you answer them! Cheers DaveWelcome to the Azure Certified Device community!
We’re excited to have you in this discussion space dedicated to all things related to the Azure Certified Device program! Whether you’re here to ask questions about our certification badges, find some help with the approval process, or share the latest IoT solution you’ve built from our device catalog, we want to hear from you. Make sure to give this space a follow, as the Azure Certified Device team will post regular updates about our services, share the latest in IoT certification news, and answer your questions. We also highly encourage you to begin your own discussions and look forward to engaging on all things IoT with you! Interested in learning more about the certification program? Check us out on our recently launched Microsoft Docs or visit our Azure for Partners page for more information and leave your questions in the discussion space. Talk to you all soon!Brand New Series on IoT Show! IoT Deep Dive is a new technical streaming event starting Feb 20th!
Hi everyone! Mark your calendars! IoT Show is expanding to a new series of technical videos (live and on-demand) called IoT Deep Dive twice a month. Come to learn and ask questions about how to build IoT solutions and deep dive into scenarios like intelligent edge, DevOps, security, asset tracking, and other top requested technical deep dives. Perfect for developers, architects, or anyone who is building IoT solutions. Level 300 | All videos will live on CH9 & YouTube after the event Upcoming events: IoT Deep Dive Live: Building End to End industrial Solutions with PTC ThingWorx and Azure– Feb 20 th , 9:00am-9:45am PST - You can setup a reminder and go here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvP50J47Eho] when the live event happens. Learn about: ThingWorx, Vuforia Studio, Azure IoT, Dynamics Special Guests: Joseph Biron - PTC - CTO of IoT Neal Hagermoser - Global ThingWorx COE Lead Chafia Aouissi - Microsoft, Azure IoT Host: Pamela Cortez - Microsoft, Azure IoT Industries and use cases: Smart connected product manufactures in the verticals of:Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Aerospace, Electronics and High Tech Description: PTC ThingWorx and Microsoft Azure IoT— proven industrial innovationsolutions with a market-leading IoT cloud infrastructure. Sitting on top of Azure IoT, ThingWorx delivers a robust and rapid creation of IoT applications and solutions that maximizes Azure services such as IoT Hub. Join the event to learn how to build an E2E industrial solution. Location Intelligence for Transportation with Azure Maps – March 6 th , 9:00am-9:45am PST [Link to be posted shortly] Learn about: Azure Maps, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Central, Azure Event Grid Guest Speakers: Ricky Brundritt - Microsoft, Azure IoT Pamela Cortez - Microsoft, Azure IoT Industries and use cases: Fleet Management, Logistics, Asset Management, IoT Description: Come learn how to use Azure Maps to provide location intelligence in different areas of transportation such as fleet management, asset tracking, and logistics.Welcome to the Learn IoT Conversation Space!
It's no coincidence that this new Learn IoT conversation space is launching the same time as our #JulyOT Week 5 content (https://aka.ms/JulyOT). Actually, that's by design! To help you with your IoT studies and certification exam prep, we've added this new area for you to add questions, share ideas and resources, and collaborate with others. If you're new to IoT, start with Microsoft Learn for IoT Learning Paths and Modules: https://aka.ms/LearnIoT This Online Workshop Series: Building End-to-End IoT Solutions will give you an IoT jumpstart:https://aka.ms/IoT-online-workshop If you want to prove your IoT skills through certification, take a look at AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer exam information:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/az-220 Then, check out AZ-220 study resources and homework from our recent Microsoft Partner AZ-220 Study Group series: https://aka.ms/OCPStudyGroup-IoT These AZ-220 hands-on labs (from official curriculum) will help you learn about Azure IoT services by working through exercises:https://microsoftlearning.github.io/AZ-220-Microsoft-Azure-IoT-Developer/ Happy studies!Bringing Computer Vision models to the Intelligent Edge: A guide for devs and data scientists
If you are (or ar planning to) navigate the waters of training Computer Vision models to run them at the edge (meaning on IoT devices), then this guide is for you! And it happens to be on GitHub, so you can get and contribute to the samples and the guide itself!IoT at Microsoft Build 2019
Microsoft Build 2019 is next week! Wether you are attending or planning to stream sessions, don't miss the ones about IoT! Below is a list to make things easier for you. We will also have a large booth for IoT with lots of demos and a Hackspace for you to go through self- paced and instructor-led labs. Breakout sessions: BRK2011: Our IoT Vision and Roadmap BRK3034: Azure IoT Platform & Security Innovations: Foundation of a modern and secure IoT application, from things to data, to E2E security BRK3032: Enabling rapid IoT solution development with Azure IoT Central and new Azure IoT Platform Innovations BRK3033:Azure IoT Edge & AI: Enabling the Intelligent Edge BRK3035: Azure Sphere: Securely unlocking IoT for your Enterprise BRK3036: Windows IoT: The foundation for your Intelligent Edge BRK2014: New data & analytics engine for the Intelligent Edge: simplify edge architecture and application development BRK3099:Build large scale near real time analytical solutions to accelerate the digital feedback loop for IoT and Apps BRK3058:From cloud to the intelligent edge: Drive real-time decisions with Azure Stream Analytics CFS2027: Using IoT to improve people’s health and brain power STU1011: Can Polar Bears Help Predict Global Climate Change? Find out with Azure AI and IoT! Theatre sessions: THR1002: Azure Digital Twins + HoloLens: Powering the Next Generation of IoT THR2020: Prototyping an internet connected smart home device with Azure IoT hub Technical Sneek peaks: TSP2043: The future of IoT SaaS application development TSP2043R: The future of IoT SaaS application development TSP2047: Use Cortana SDK on Azure IoT and the Cortana Bluetooth spec to bring ambientintelligent assistance to first-line workers TSP2038: New connection scenarios for Azure Sphere TSP2038R: New connection scenarios for Azure Sphere
ROS on Windows and ROS with Azure
Welcome to the Robotics community. We’d like to leverage this conversation space to discuss the Robot Operating System (ROS) on Windows as well as share feedback and learnings. Come join our discussion. Microsoft is working with Open Robotics and the ROS Industrial Consortium to bring the Robot Operating System to Windows. Microsoft has joined the ROS Industrial Consortium who's mission is to extend the capabilities of ROS to manufacturing and improve the productivity and return on investment of industrial robots. Microsoft will host and maintain the Windows builds for ROS1, and shortly ROS2. We are providing documentation, development and deployment solutions for Windows. To get started using ROS on Windows and ROS with Azure, please visit the Getting Started guide at http://aka.ms/ros.AZ-220 Exam Prep Tips
I'm a Microsoft Certified Trainer and have been a Microsoft Certified Professional since 1996. During that time, I've taken a lot of exams and have developed a few personal strategies along the way for my exam prep and test taking. In this excerpt from our Microsoft OCP AZ-220 Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Study Group, I share what works for me. Please take a listen, then share any other tips you have for others!Upcoming Deep Dive: Using CI/CD to Deploy IoT Edge Modules with Confidence
LIVE EVENT with Q/A! Upcoming IoT Show Deep Dive on Oct 23rd, Wednesday at 9am-10am PT Check out ink for more info, calendar invite, and live stream: http://aka.ms/deepdive/iotedgecicd Hi everyone! If you are looking into doing Continuous integration and continuous deployment with IoT Edge Modules, we are going to deep dive into best practices with Azure DevOps and Jenkins. This deep dive will be packed with technical walk-throughs & demos based on real-world scenarios using IoT Edge. Every Deep Dive are Live with Q/A, so come with all your questions! this is level 300-400 content. (meaning if you are just starting with Azure DevOps and IoT Edge, please consider watch a couple intro videos that are linked below before hand) Azure IoT Edge scales out your IoT solution by packaging your business logic into standard containers, then you can deploy those containers to any of your devices and monitor it all from the cloud. However, integrating containers into a continuous delivery pipeline is far from easy. Along with the benefits Azure IoT Edge brings, there are challenges both tech and process related. This Deep Dive outlines the steps you need to take for a fully automated CI/CD pipeline that builds IoT Edge modules deployed into Azure IoT Edge devices at scale with confidence. We will show how solution developers and operators can setup the pipelines with their preferred CI/CD tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins, etc. Speakers: Deep Dives are hosted by Pamela Cortez from the Azure IoT Team. Special guests: Xin Shi - PM Kat Ngov - Software Engineer Hadwa Abdelhalem - Software Engineer Resources Watch: IoT Edge + DevOps Read: Continuous integration and continuous deployment to Azure IoT Edge If you ever have ideas for future deep dives tweet@AltaOhms or ping me here!Step-by-step guide to installing OPC Publisher on Azure IoT Edge
Of all the Azure IoT Edge modules, the OPC Publisher is one of the more challenging modules to setup. I've had a number of Industrial IoT partners struggle with connecting an OPC UA server, such as a Historian or SCADA system, to Azure IoT Hub using Azure IoT Edge and our open source OPC Publisher module. So I recently wrote a step-by-step blog post on LinkedIn on how to do this. If you don't have a physical device to act as the IoT Edge gateway, you can use a virtual machine running on-premise or in Azure as an alternative. Hopefully the blog post will help you and save you some headaches when connecting using OPC UA.
Join Vision AI Dev Kit lab in Embedded Linux Conference in San Diego August 22nd!
Are you participating to Embedded Linux Conference in San Diego? Join Vision AI Dev Kit hand’s on lab! Microsoft will have a strong representation in Embedded Linux Conference in San Diego August 21st – 23rd. In addition to the speeches we will do a two labs: -Wednesday August 21st : End-to-end IoT Security hands-on Workshop with Azure Sphere & Azure IoT Central (registration is currently full). -Thursday August 22nd: Build your custom vision model and deploy it to Vision AI DevKit Build your custom vision model and deploy it to Vision AI DevKit The lab will provide an introduction to Vision AI DevKit, an intelligent edge camera, that can do inferencing in the device instead of sending data to the cloud for analysis. You will use the AI camera (Out-of-Box experience) and see it running the default vision model that recognizes 183 items. Then you’ll train your own vision AI model using customvision.ai and deploy it to the camera using Azure IoT Hub. Room: 204B Date: Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 Workshop times: 11:15-12:15 – register 2:10-3:10 - register 4:05-5:05 - register Sign up and get first hand experience in getting started with Vision AI!IoT Transformers Episode 1: How Relogix disrupted the Commercial Real Estate Industry
Many months ago my coworker Deb Oberly and I talked about capturing all the great innovation in IoT that we get to see, in the form of a Podcast. Many discussions, trials, feedback, and research later, we have landed here. We hope you enjoy it. In this episode, we are joined by Jeff Bennett, Chief Operating Officer at Relogix to discuss how Relogix is embracing IoT to disrupt the commercial real estate industry.Article: IoT in .NET with a Raspberry Pi, Azure IoT Hub, and Xamarin
A home security system built with Azure IoT and a Raspberry Pi! This is one of the most in-depth project walkthroughs that I have ever read, and it features many Azure and Microsoft tools outside of just Azure IoT. Give this a read over your lunch break - you won't be disappointed! https://medium.com/@dimoss/iot-in-net-with-a-raspberry-pi-azure-iot-hub-and-xamarin-3bf1cfb2514fArticle: Securely Connecting an Arduino NB 1500 to Azure IoT Hub
Our friends over at Arduino kindly wrote this article on connecting one of their crypto enabled boards to Azure IoT Hub! https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/Arduino_Genuino/securely-connecting-an-arduino-nb-1500-to-azure-iot-hub-af6470Azure IoT keynote at The Things Conference
I presented a keynote at The Things Conference a couple weeks back and the video is now live. If you want to learn more about how we bridge LoRaWAN's The Things Network solution with Azure IoT, working with the community in the open, check out the full presentation below as well as the deck attached.
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