Connect fast with a hassle-free, hosted IoT platform
Easily connect, monitor, and manage your Internet of Things (IoT) assets at scale. Azure IoT Central is a hosted, extensible software as a service (SaaS) platform that simplifies setup of your IoT solution and helps reduce the burden and costs of IoT management, operations, and development. Provide customers superior products and service while expanding your business possibilities.
Fast and easy: Start in minutes and create a finished solution in hours. Build without any cloud development expertise.
Enterprise-grade: Build on proven Azure services, and fully integrate into your existing business systems and processes.
Scalable and highly secure: Grow your network of connected assets while maintaining your infrastructure security.
Predictable per-device pricing: Experience the simplicity of SaaS for IoT with predictable pricing. Pay only for what you need.
Simplify IoT development—from setup to production
Build production-grade IoT applications in hours, without managing infrastructure or relying on advanced IoT development skills. Reduce the complexity of customizing, deploying, and scaling an IoT solution—and bring your connected solutions to market faster.
Rest easy with Azure enterprise-grade security
Use Azure IoT Central to help protect your connected products with built-in, end-to-end IoT security. Keep control of your data with privacy features like role-based access and integration with your Active Directory permissions.
Connect and manage remote assets with ease
Create and configure your SaaS IoT solution without cloud development expertise. The easy-to-use interface of Azure IoT Central makes it simple for you to connect, manage, and control access to millions of connected products remotely, throughout their lifecycle.
Read our connected products whitepaperKey scenarios
Condition monitoring
Proactively identify and fix problems before malfunctions occur. Azure IoT Central provides secure access to data and diagnostics from connected assets, sending alerts when performance deviates from predefined settings. Reduce the need for service calls and improve first-time fix rates.
Connected field service
Ensure the right people, parts, and equipment are available for every maintenance visit—and move from a costly break-fix service model to a proactive, predictive one. Azure IoT Central lets you automatically generate targeted work orders from connected assets. Optimize scheduling and inventory tracking to reduce equipment downtime and improve first-time fix rates. And improve your service efficiency, customer satisfaction, and competitive advantage.
Products as a service
Adopt a service-oriented business model to create new revenue streams. Using Azure IoT Central, lighten customers’ asset management burden and improve their experience. Help them compete by immediately and continuously integrating insights to improve and differentiate their products.
Rest easy with industry-leading security
- Microsoft invests more than USD 1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
- We employ more than 3,500 security experts completely dedicated to your data security and privacy.
- Azure has more compliance certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
Simple, predictable SaaS platform pricing
- No upfront cost
- No termination fees
- Pay only for what you need
Developer resources
Documentation
Explore quickstarts, how-to guides, tutorials, and API reference documentation.
Go to documentationIoT developer’s guide
Find the resources you need to get started and work through technical challenges.
Get the guideIoT School
Whether you’re new to IoT or a seasoned professional looking to stay on top of your game, find information and learning resources to build your solutions.
Go to IoT SchoolIoT Show
Watch live-streamed events about SaaS IoT solution building, including scenarios like intelligent edge, DevOps, and asset tracking. Take advantage of top-requested technical deep dives.
Watch nowIoT technical community
Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and Azure experts.
Join the conversationIoT device catalog
Browse more than 1,000 certified IoT hardware devices to start building your IoT solution today.
Browse nowGet started with Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central updates, blogs, and announcements
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IoT Plug and Play Preview is now available
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Location telemetry support in IoT Central is now available
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IoT Central introduces capabilities for rules and alerts, visualization, personalization & more
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IoT Plug and Play announcement at Build
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Azure IoT Central is now available
Frequently asked questions
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Azure IoT Central gives you guaranteed 99.9-percent connectivity. Read the SLA.
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Azure IoT Central is a fully hosted software as a service (SaaS) IoT platform that helps you build enterprise-grade IoT solutions without expertise in cloud solution development.
Azure IoT solution accelerators are enterprise-grade solution templates built on Azure platform as a service (PaaS), designed to help you quickly develop custom IoT solutions. Learn more about solution accelerators.
Both offer options for building solutions based on customer requirements. Compare options.
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Access Azure IoT Central using most desktops, tablets, and browsers. See a list of supported browsers and connectivity requirements.
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Data is retained on a rolling, 30-day basis. You can continuously export data using the export feature.
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