Microsoft Reactor

This session is part of a month-long series.
#JulyOT is back for 2021! Throughout the month of July, the IoT Cloud Advocacy team will be sharing content and events put together by IoT enthusiasts from around the world. This includes content from community members, Microsoft employees, and could even involve you! For every working day in July, we’ll focus on a featured content piece from our curated collection at the IoT Tech Community. We hope to inspire curious minds to pursue their own Internet of Things journey. Get more info here: https://aka.ms/JulyOTContentforEveryone

For more from Jim's series visit: https://aka.ms/HelloIoTSeriesPage
Also visit our #JulyOT Reactor series page for additional sessions on IoT/OT: https://aka.ms/JulyOT2021Series

The I in IoT stands for Internet - the cloud connectivity and services that enable a lot of the features of IoT devices, from gathering measurements from the sensors connected to the device, to sending messages to control the actuators. IoT devices typically connect to a single cloud IoT service using a standard communication protocol, and that service is connected to the rest of your IoT application, from AI services to make smart decisions around your data, to web apps for control or reporting.

IoT devices can receive messages from the cloud. Often the messages contain commands - that is instructions to perform an action either internally (such as reboot or update firmware), or using an actuator (such as turning on a light).

This lesson introduces some of the communication protocols IoT devices can use to connect to the cloud, and the types of data they might send or receive. It will also show how to control a microcontroller over MQTT.

Speaker:
Jim Bennett, Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jim does things with IoT and Azure in the Developer Relations team at Microsoft, mainly creating content for students and faculty to help them be successful with Microsoft technologies. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He also hates cats, but has an 8 year old daughter who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.