{"id":15887,"date":"2019-10-29T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=15887"},"modified":"2019-10-29T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T04:58:51","slug":"microsoft-announces-new-capabilities-for-a-seamless-smart-and-secure-iot-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/microsoft-announces-new-capabilities-for-a-seamless-smart-and-secure-iot-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces new capabilities for a seamless, smart and secure IoT world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u2022 New solutions deliver IoT innovations from cloud to edge<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Microsoft Corp. on Monday (28th October) announced\u202fnew capabilities that further simplify the customer journey and deliver highly secured IoT solutions. These solutions help customers embrace IoT as a core strategy to drive better business outcomes, improve safety and address social issues by predicting and preventing equipment failures, optimizing smart buildings for space utilization and energy management, improving patient outcomes and worker safety, tracking assets across a supply chain, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The proliferation of IoT devices is enabling companies to bring cloud intelligence to the edge, to create solutions that are adaptive and responsive to their environments. According to IDC, 41.6 billion devices \u2014 including smartphones, smart home assistants and smart appliances will be connected to the internet by 2025. Even sooner, by 2021, 94% of businesses surveyed will be using IoT, according to a recent Microsoft IoT Signals research report\u00a0and, in nearly every case (97%), those companies are concerned about potential security risks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u201cAt Microsoft, we are committed to building a trusted, easy-to-use platform that allows our customers and partners to build seamless, smart, secure solutions regardless of where they are in the IoT journey,\u201d <strong>said Sam George, CVP of Azure IoT at Microsoft.<\/strong> \u201cThat\u2019s why we are\u00a0investing $5B in IoT and intelligent edge\u00a0\u2014 technology that is accelerating ubiquitous computing and bringing unparalleled opportunity across industries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #008000;\"><strong>Delivering new IoT innovations from cloud to edge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800000;\"><strong>Making IoT seamless<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>IoT Central<\/strong>\u00a0is a fully managed IoT app platform that provides solution builders with built-in security, scale and extensibility needed to develop enterprise-grade IoT solutions. New features to IoT Central simplify challenges of building and deploying scalable and affordable enterprise applications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">11 new\u00a0<strong>industry-focused<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>application templates<\/strong>\u00a0to accelerate solution builders across retail, healthcare, government and energy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>API support\u00a0<\/strong>for extending IoT Central or integrating it with other solutions, including API support for device modelling, provisioning, lifecycle management, operations and data querying.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>IoT Edge support<\/strong>, including management for edge devices and IoT Edge module deployments, which enable customers to deploy cloud workloads, including AI, directly to connected devices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>IoT Plug and Play support<\/strong>, for rapid device development and connectivity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The ability to<strong>\u00a0Save &amp; Load applications\u00a0<\/strong>to enable application reusability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">More<strong>\u00a0Data Export\u00a0<\/strong>options for continually exporting data to other Azure PaaS services, such as storage for rich analytics.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Multitenancy support<\/strong>\u00a0for building and managing a single application with multiple tenants, each with their own isolated data, devices, users and roles. And updates to that single application are visible to all tenants for easy manageability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Custom user roles<\/strong>\u00a0for fine-grained access control to data, actions and configurations in the system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>New pricing model<\/strong>\u00a0for early 2020, designed to help customers and partners have predictable pricing as usage scales.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #800000;\"><strong>Making IoT smarter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Azure IoT Hub<\/strong>\u00a0helps enterprise developers reduce costs and optimize operations through IoT cloud applications. New capabilities with\u00a0IoT Hub message enrichment\u00a0add the ability to stamp messages coming from devices with rich information before they are sent to downstream cloud services, making integration easy.\u00a0IoT Hub integrates with Azure Event Grid, making it easy to consume IoT Hub device messages from an even broader variety of downstream services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Azure Maps\u00a0<\/strong>customers can add geospatial weather intelligence into their applications to enable scenarios like weather-based routing, weather-based targeted marketing and weather-based operations optimization, in partnership with AccuWeather. Azure Maps will now be available on Gov Cloud, simplifying the onboarding process for customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Azure Time Series Insights\u00a0<\/strong>is announcing new preview capabilities including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Multilayered storage<\/strong>\u00a0provides the best of both worlds: lightning fast access to frequently used data (\u201cwarm data\u201d) and fast access to infrequently used historical data (\u201ccold data\u201d).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Flexible cold storage:<\/strong>\u00a0Historical data is stored in a customer\u2019s own Azure Storage account, giving customers complete control of their IoT data. Data is stored in open source Apache Parquet format, enabling\u00a0predictive analytics, machine learning and other custom computations using familiar technologies including Spark, Databricks and Jupyter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Rich analytics:<\/strong>\u00a0Rich query APIs and user experience support interpolation, new scalar and aggregate functions, categorical variables, scatter plots, and time shifting between time series signals for in-depth analysis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Enterprise-grade scale:<\/strong>\u00a0Scale and performance improvements at all layers, including ingestion, storage, query and metadata\/model.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Extensibility and integration:<\/strong>\u00a0New Time Series Insights Power BI connector allows customers to take queries from Time Series Insights into Power BI to get a unified view in a single pane of glass.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 New solutions deliver IoT innovations from cloud to edge Microsoft Corp. on Monday (28th October) announced\u202fnew capabilities that further simplify the customer journey and deliver highly secured IoT solutions. 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