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Microsoft Announces New Capabilities for a Seamless, Smart and Secure

IoT world

Microsoft Corp. announced new
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. 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,1 41.6 billion devices — including
smartphones, smart home assistants and
smart appliances — will be connected
to the internet by 2025. Even sooner, by extensibility needed to develop enterprise- control to data, actions and configurations
2021, 94% of businesses surveyed will be grade IoT solutions. New features to IoT in the system. New pricing model for early
using IoT, according to a recent Microsoft Central simplify challenges of building 2020, designed to help customers and
IoT Signals research report and, in nearly and deploying scalable and affordable partners have predictable pricing as usage
every case (97%), those companies enterprise applications: scales.
are concerned about potential security 11 new industry-focused application Making IoT smarter
risks. “At Microsoft, we are committed to templates to accelerate solution builders Azure IoT Hub helps enterprise developers
building a trusted, easy-to-use platform across retail, healthcare, government and reduce costs and optimize operations
that allows our customers and partners energy. through IoT cloud applications. New
to build seamless, smart, secure solutions API support for extending IoT Central capabilities with IoT Hub message
regardless of where they are in the IoT or integrating it with other solutions, enrichment add the ability to stamp
journey,” said Sam George, CVP of Azure including API support for device modelling, messages coming from devices with
IoT at Microsoft. “That’s why we are provisioning, lifecycle management, rich information before they are sent
investing $5B in IoT and intelligent edge — operations and data querying. to downstream cloud services, making
technology that is accelerating ubiquitous IoT Edge support, including management integration easy. IoT Hub integrates
computing and bringing unparalleled for edge devices and IoT Edge module with Azure Event Grid, making it easy to
opportunity across industries.” deployments, which enable customers consume IoT Hub device messages from
Delivering new IoT innovations from cloud to deploy cloud workloads, including AI, an even broader variety of downstream
to edge directly to connected devices. services. Azure Maps customers can
Our core focus is addressing the challenge IoT Plug and Play support, for rapid device add geospatial weather intelligence into
of securing connected devices at every development and connectivity. their applications to enable scenarios like
layer while advancing IoT to create a The ability to Save & Load applications to weather-based routing, weather-based
seamless experience between the physical enable application reusability. targeted marketing and weather-based
and digital worlds. In the past year, we More Data Export options for continually operations optimization, in partnership
launched more than 100 new services and exporting data to other Azure PaaS with AccuWeather. Azure Maps will now
features that make IoT solutions more services, such as storage for rich analytics. be available on Gov Cloud, simplifying the
secure and scalable, reduce complexity, Multitenancy support for building and onboarding process for customers.
and create opportunities in new market managing a single application with multiple Azure Time Series Insights is announcing
areas. tenants, each with their own isolated data, new preview capabilities including:
Making IoT seamless devices, users and roles. And updates to Multilayered storage provides the best
IoT Central is a fully managed IoT that single application are visible to all of both worlds: Lightning fast access to
app platform that provides solution tenants for easy manageability. frequently used data (“warm data”) and
builders with built-in security, scale and Custom user roles for fine-grained access fast access to infrequently used historical

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