Introduction
In Azure IoT Hub, automatic device management automates the repetitive and challenging activities associated with managing large fleets of devices throughout their entire lifecycles. Numerous recommended practices for the various roles involved in creating and managing an IoT solution are defined in this article.
Giving operators a plan for managing their collection of devices, in the long run, is essential for developing a successful enterprise IoT solution. IoT operators need straightforward, dependable tools and applications that let them concentrate on their professions' most critical facets. This article gives information about device management patterns and describes the device lifetime and device identity properties.
Device lifecycle
In the majority of enterprise IoT initiatives, general device management phases are prevalent. There are five stages in the device lifetime in Azure IoT:
- Plan: Give users the ability to design a device metadata scheme that will allow them to target a large number of devices with a simple and accurate search.
- Provision: Allow operators to quickly learn about new device capabilities by securely provisioning new devices to the IoT Hub. To generate flexible device IDs and credentials, use the IoT Hub identity registry. You may do this action in bulk by using a task. Create devices with the ability to disclose their capabilities and conditions using the device twin's device characteristics.
- Configure: Allow for large firmware updates and configuration changes while keeping devices secure and healthy.
- Monitor: Monitor the general condition of the device collection and the state of ongoing operations and notify operators of any potential problems. Use the device twin to enable devices to report the progress of update processes and real-time functioning conditions.
- Retire: After a failure, an update cycle, or at the conclusion of the service lifetime, replace or decommission the equipment. If the physical device is archived or replaced, if it is being retired, use the device twin to keep device information.
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