Create an IoT Device Using the Gadgeteer with Azure Blob Storage

[Duke_Nukem]

Gadgeteer article in March 2015 MSDN Magazine by Benjamin Perkins.

In the next five years, the number of Internet-connected devices will be more than three times the total human population. These devices won’t be restricted to the smartphones and tablets we use now, but will include additional devices embedded into home appliances, elevators, automobiles, business environments, arm bands, clothing and much more. These devices will capture information about energy consumption, speed, temperatures, the presence of various gases, blood pressure, heart rate, program or hardware exceptions, and just about anything you can imagine.

The data captured by these devices needs to be stored in a highly scalable, highly reliable and highly usable environment. By usable I mean once the data is stored, the platform on which it exists should provide services, features and processing power to analyze, learn from and act on the gathered data. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use the Gadgeteer—a rapid hardware development platform based on the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework—to build a device for capturing data; Microsoft Azure Storage to store the data; and the Azure platform to analyze and consume the data. By following along, you’ll begin your journey into the Internet of Things (IoT) generation.

I’ll discuss those three components, the Gadgeteer, Azure Blob Storage, and some data capturing and analysis components of the Azure platform in detail. In addition, I’ll provide thorough code-level instructions on how you can use the Gadgeteer to insert an image into an Azure Blob Storage container.

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[kiwi_stu1]

Two articles on .NetMF in the same month!

The other one [quote]The Microsoft .NET Framework in Embedded Applications[/quote] .NET Micro Framework - The Microsoft .NET Framework in Embedded Applications | Microsoft Learn

[Wolfgang_Feneberg]

Cool, Thank you 8)

[devhammer]

@ Duke Nukem - Awesome. I did a double-take on the designer screenshot…looks almost exactly like one of the projects I’m working on for a conference session…save for the camera (I’m using TempHumidity instead).

And after spending a little quality time with the ConnectTheDots.io demo from MS Open Tech, I’m more convinced than ever that Microsoft is right to push Azure as a component of IoT. Lots of value there, whether it’s just as a place to publish a Web API/SignalR solution, or something using Service Bus and Event Hubs.

Love to see Gadgeteer getting some of the attention it deserves! Thanks for sharing!

[devhammer]

@ kiwi_stu - Nice to see Colin in the pages of MSDN mag, and with a nice shout-out to Gadgeteer, even if it isn’t used for his robot.