📄️ Active Directory
A Microsoft service that provides centralized identity and access management for devices, users, and applications, playing a crucial role in securing and managing IoT environments.
📄️ Application Enablement Platform (AEP)
A software framework that simplifies the development of IoT applications by providing pre-built components, APIs, and tools for device connectivity, data management, and analytics.
📄️ Azure Arc
A Microsoft Azure service that enables the management of resources across different environments, including on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge deployments, providing a unified control plane for diverse IoT infrastructures.
📄️ Azure VMware Solution
A Microsoft Azure service that enables seamless integration of VMware environments with Azure, allowing organizations to leverage existing VMware investments for IoT and hybrid cloud deployments.
📄️ Command-Line Interface (CLI)
A text-based interface for interacting with software, applications, or operating systems, often used for managing and configuring IoT devices and systems.
📄️ Container Registry
A centralized repository for storing and managing container images, enabling the efficient distribution and deployment of containerized IoT applications.
📄️ Container
A lightweight, portable, and self-sufficient software package that includes everything needed to run an application, facilitating easy deployment and management of IoT applications.
📄️ Data Ingestion
The process of collecting, processing, and storing data generated by IoT devices, either in real-time or in batches.
📄️ Ingestion Pipeline
A sequence of processes and components used to collect, process, and store data generated by IoT devices, including data acquisition, transformation, and storage.
📄️ IoT Edge
A technology that extends cloud capabilities to IoT devices, enabling local data processing, analytics, and decision-making, reducing latency and network bandwidth requirements.
📄️ IoT Hub
A cloud-based service that enables secure, bi-directional communication between IoT devices and backend applications, providing device management, message routing, and data storage capabilities.
📄️ IoT Platform
A comprehensive suite of tools and services designed to facilitate the development, deployment, and management of IoT applications, providing device connectivity, data storage, analytics, and integration capabilities.
📄️ Kubernetes
An open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized IoT applications and services.
📄️ Microservices
A software architecture that structures IoT applications as a collection of small, independent services, enabling greater flexibility, scalability, and maintainability.
📄️ Object-Based Storage (OBS)
A storage architecture that manages data as discrete units or "objects," providing scalability and flexibility for storing large volumes of unstructured data, such as IoT-generated data.
📄️ Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF)
An industry consortium that aims to develop and promote standards for IoT device interoperability and seamless communication across different platforms and ecosystems.
📄️ Representational State Transfer (REST)
An architectural style for designing networked applications that use HTTP to request and transfer data, often used in IoT systems for building APIs and web services.