📄️ 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.
📄️ New IoT Central app
1. Open the IoT Central web portal by selecting this link Azure IoT Central.
📄️ Azure Sphere trust
Once your IoT Central application has been created, you must enable trust between your Azure Sphere tenant and your Azure IoT Central application. Trust is enabled by sharing your Azure Sphere tenant Certificate Authority certificate with your IoT Central application.
📄️ Endpoint security
Azure Sphere applications are secure by default, including hardware and network endpoints. You must declare your IoT Central network endpoints, otherwise, your Azure Sphere application will not be able to connect to IoT Central.
📄️ 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.
📄️ Add network endpoints
1. Open the app_manifest.json file.
📄️ Deploy the Altair emulator
1. Ensure Release configuration is selected.