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Azure Digital Twins is now generally available
Azure Digital Twins is generally available and read for production deployments. Features include: Flexible modelling and general graph topology, richer compute, bring your own IoT Hub for easier integration, and improved scalability.
September 2020
Announcing the unified Azure Certified Device program
A unified and enhanced Azure Certified Device program was announced at Microsoft Ignite, expanding on previous Microsoft certification offerings that validate IoT devices meet specific capabilities and are built to run on Azure. This program offers a low-cost opportunity for device builders to increase visibility of their products while making it easy for solution builders and end customers to find the right device for their IoT solutions.
July 2020
IoT Plug and Play new features now in public preview
IoT Plug and Play new features in Public Preview to continue simplifying IoT.
Azure Digital Twins enhanced features are now in preview
Create new generation IoT connected solutions that model the real world
May 2020
Azure Digital Twins now has expanded digital representation capabilities
Azure Digital Twins adds expanded digital representation capabilities.
December 2019
Csharp and Java SDKs for IoT Plug and Play are now in Preview
We have added two more SDK languages to the IoT Plug and Play public preview. You can now develop with the Azure IoT Csharp SDK and the Azure IoT Java SDK, in addition to Azure IoT SDK for Node.js and Azure IoT SDK for C.
September 2018
Azure Digital Twins is now in preview
Azure Digital Twins is now in preview. Azure Digital Twins is a new platform for comprehensive digital models and spatially aware solutions that can be applied to any physical environment.
December 2016
General availability: Azure IoT Hub device management
Azure IoT Hub device management enables IoT developers and operators to harness the power of the Azure hyperscale cloud to organize, monitor, query, and orchestrate changes across billions of devices.
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