Getting connected is the first step in any IoT Journey, and HMS makes the first step easy. Depending on the scale of the final solution systems, architects will need to define a life cycle management strategy for every device connected to Azure.
Microsoft Azure supports both a traditional VM offering as well as several functional elements that can be combined to create a solution. These functional elements enable use cases in the industrial market including asset monitoring, predictive maintenance and remote service. Functional elements are grouped as follows:
Organize the data, customized for your specific needs
Perform root cause analysis on the data set captured
Build a set of user defined or AI predicted limits to create alerts
Define and execute actions to improve performance and/or limit downtime
Once data collection has been enabled the next step is to take advantage Azure functions that exist to build a complete solution. Key functional blocks HMS has development experience with include:
Azure DB – Azure supports a large number of data bases which can be populated from steam analytics. | Steam Analytics – Allows real-time analysis of data flows including alarming based on complex data analysis. This function also acts as a data router in Azure. | Event Hub – An easy way to ingest data from services outside of Azure. | AWS Blob Storage – Cost effective way to store large chucks of data in the format it was originally received in. |
Azure Functions – Cost effective user defined code elements that are executed as needed. These functions are leverage like glue logic to fill in the gaps between different functional blocks or to eliminate a functional block for cost reasons when applicable. | IoT Hub – Bi-direction communication channel between Azure and a device using a HMS Edge gateway. Write backs to the edge device are enabled leveraging the device twin functionality. | Active Directory – Microsoft’s active directory system is the most common user management solution in the world. The solution can easily be merged with an on-site AD solution to extend corporate access rules from the enterprise to the cloud. | Power BI – Visualizing data allows individuals and management to quickly understand complex status information. Resulting in more alignment across the organization and faster response times when there are issues in the field. |
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