Create a practical IoT Solution using Azure IoT

Practical IoT Solution Using Azure IoT Hub
In this exercise, I will create an IoT solution that involves:

1. Setting up an Azure IoT Hub to manage IoT devices.
2. Registering a device with the IoT Hub.
3. Simulating device telemetry to send data to the IoT Hub.
4. Sending the telemetry data to Azure Blob Storage for persistent storage.

Steps in creating a practical IoT Hub to manage devices, simulate telemetry data, and store data in Azure Blob Storage

• Go to the Azure Portal

• Select create a resource, navigate to internet of things and select IoT Hub

• Select subscription

• Select or create existing resource group

• Choose a region

• Give your IoT Hub name

• Select free in Tier

• Click on review +Create to deploy the IoT Hub

• Go to resource after the deployment is completed

• Click on add Device to add device

• Enter the device ID (e.g myiotdevice), leave the rest at default and click save

• After the save be sure the IoT device is created

• Click on the device and copy the primary connection string

• Paste the primary connection string that was copied to connect the simulated device to the IoT Hub and click run

• Click on message to device

• The message received by the Raspberry simulator

• Navigate to the overview page of the IoT Hub setting and click on message routing

• Click on +Add a route

• Select the endpoint to be storage

• Name your Endpoint (myiotendpoint)

• Click on pick a container

• Click on pick container and navigate to + storage account

• Give the storage account name and choose default for the remaining setting then click ok

• Select the storage account you just created

• Click on + container to create a container

• Give the container a name and then create

• Choose the new container and click on select

• Click on create + next

• Create a route, and add a query to filter data before routing it to the endpoint

• Open the storage account on a new tab

• Click on container

• On the IoT hub overview page, navigate to file upload

• Select the storage and container created earlier

• From the IoT plug and play app that you installed on your phone, upload a file or image and make sure you save file upload changes on the IoT Hub page on the Azure portal, you will notice the file will reflect on the container page

• Click on the container to see the default telemetry file created and myiotdevice contain the uploaded file

• Double click on myiotdevice then click on edit to view the document

• View the image or the file

Conclusion
By following these steps, you've created a practical IoT solution using Azure IoT Hub to manage devices, simulate telemetry data, and store that data in Azure Blob Storage. This solution can be extended by adding more devices, enhancing telemetry data types, or integrating with other Azure services for advanced analytics