Collect and analyze sensor and usage data from Internet of Things applications with Microsoft Azure IoT Suite. Internet connectivity to everyday devices such as light bulbs, thermostats, and even voice-command devices such as Google Home and Amazon.com's Alexa is exploding. These connected devices and their respective applications generate large amounts of data that can be mined to enhance user-friendliness and make predictions about what a user might be likely to do next. Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite is a cloud-based platform that is ideal for collecting data from connected devices. You'll learn about data acquisition and analysis, including real-time analysis. Real-world examples are provided to teach you to detect anomalous patterns in your data that might lead to business advantage.

We live in a time when the amount of data being generated and stored is growing at an exponential rate. Understanding and getting real-time insight into these data is criticalto business. IoT Solutions in Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite walks you through a complete, end-to-end journey of how to collect and store data from Internet-connected devices. You'll learn to analyze the data and to apply your results to solving real-world problems. Your customers will benefit from the increasingly capable and reliable applications that you'll be able to deploy to them. You and your business will benefit from the gains in insight and knowledge that can be applied to delight your customers and increase the value from their business.

What You Will Learn

• Go through data generation, collection, and storage from sensors and devices, both relational and non-relational
  
• Understand, from end to end, Microsoft's analytic services and where they fit into the analytical ecosystem
  
• Look at the Internet of your things and find ways to discover and draw on theinsights your data can provide
• Understand Microsoft's IoT technologies and services, and stitch them together for business insight and advantage

The increasing number of Internet-connected everyday devices such as thermostats and toasters generate large amounts of data that can be sifted and analyzed to provide insight into how people live and what else they might be persuaded to buy. This book addresses that need for analysis head-on by showing how to collect and analyze data from the Internet of Things using the Microsoft Azure IoT suite. The business value from mining consumer behavior is too great to ignore, and this book addresses the market by providing a solution for grabbing and analyzing the available data.

IoT Solutions in Microsoft's Azure IoT Suite is a solution-oriented book helping readers understand the "Internet of Their Things". Big Data and IoT is about gaining real-time insights into the vast amounts and different types of data generated by everyday devices. Microsoft has spent a significant amount of time creating technologiesand services that help companies gain valuable insights into the ever-increasing amounts of data being generated. The key is understanding how these technologies and services are used together effectively and efficiently to solve the big data problems. Readers will come away with the in-depth knowledge of how to solve the real-world data challenges facing organizations today.