Azure IoT Central
Easily connect, monitor, and manage your devices and data to evaluate your IoT scenario
Overview
Evaluate your IoT projects for business value and viability
Azure IoT Central is a ready-made UX and API surface for connecting and managing devices at scale, delivering reliable data for business insights. It preassembles platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, bringing together each service beneath it for an easy-to-configure, comprehensive, and secure IoT offering.
- Get started using a ready-made web experience and API surface for IoT solution development. Manage devices at scale using the job scheduler. Store data over a 30-day window, visualizing in custom dashboarding and data exploration experiences. Define rules to trigger business flows, send IoT data to other services using data export, and programmatically access Azure IoT Central using its public REST API.
Features
Operate IoT devices and data at scale
Connect
Quick connectivity between IoT devices and the cloud
Manage
Centralized management to easily reconfigure and update devices
Visualize
Visualizations and analysis to make sense of IoT data, from big picture to details
Extend
Extensibility to bridge business applications and IoT data, turning insights into action
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Frequently asked questions
- IoT Central is the fastest and easiest way to evaluate your IoT scenario and assess the opportunities it can create for your business. Learn more.
- Yes, Azure IoT Central is an application PaaS that manages scalability and HADR for you. An Azure IoT Central application can scale to support millions of connected devices. Learn more.
- Yes, Azure IoT Central has a rich set of extensibility features, including rules to trigger business flows, data export to send IoT data to other services, and a public REST API. Learn more.
- Various quotas and limits apply to Azure IoT Central applications. View the quotas and limits documentation.
- Azure IoT Central gives you guaranteed 99.9-percent connectivity. Read the SLA.
- Azure IoT Central data is retained on a rolling 30-day basis. You can continuously export data using the export feature.
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