📄️ About Azure IoT Central
Connecting Azure IoT Central is optional and free to try. IoT Central will be very useful as you can stream and report weather, pollution, and diagnostics data, as well as export data for anomaly detection.
📄️ IoT Plug and Play
This solution uses IoT Plug and Play with IoT Central. IoT Plug and Play (PnP) defines a model that a device uses to advertise its capabilities to a PnP-enabled application like IoT Central. PnP is an open specification, to learn more, refer to What is IoT Plug and Play.
📄️ Create an IoT Central app
1. Open the IoT Central web portal by selecting this link Azure IoT Central.
📄️ Create a device key
To securely connect the Altair emulator to Azure IoT Central you need to create a device ID and a derived device key.
📄️ Customize IoT Central
In this exercise, you will be customizing Azure IoT Central to display the data sent from the applications you run on the Altair emulator. Applications that stream data to Azure IoT Central include WEATHER.BAS and JSON.BAS.