Azure IoT Edge
Azure IoT Edge moves analytics and logic out of the cloud and onto your on-premises devices. Using a cloud interface, you can deploy either Azure service logic or your own code to devices without having to physically access them. And offline capabilities mean that you can extract business insights anywhere, without worrying about maintaining constant communication with a cloud service.
More details about the services are available in the documentation.
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Support Ubuntu Core
Add Ubuntu Core as supported Operating Systems. It is becoming a preferred "secure by default" OS which is preinstalled on many IoT Gateways. E.g. Dell Edge Gateways
35 votesWe are aware of this OS and want to get to it; however CentOS 7.5 and Yocto are currently higher on our priority list.
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Removing unused modules from IoT Edge devices
I am successfully able to add and remove custom modules from a deployment. However, I notice that modules that I remove through a deployment, remain on the device, occupying space. So at some point, the device's storage will get filled up with junk (outdated or unnecessary modules), leading to a system crash.
This is the response I received from Microsoft - "Thanks for your feedback @baharw . That is by design - you can easily integrate a direct method for example that would be responsible to remove all unused docker images on your edge device. I nevertheless suggest that you…
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C2D Messaging
I know direct methods are possible but sometimes you just want to have a queue of C2D messages which are delivered to devices when they come online. Direct methods only work when a device is connected and it would require some effort to implement the aforementioned scenario. Also one would need some routing logic to deliver those messages to modules.
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Document how to connect Azure Sphere Device as Downstream Device to Edge
It would be great to connect the new Azure Sphere to the IoT Hub on Edge to use Sphere in a Transparent Gateway Scenario
17 votesThis is a gap that we are aware of, want to fix, and are currently discussing with the Azure Sphere team.
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Module for receiving data from BACnet systems
Alike a Modbus module, it would be useful if a BACnet module is made available to support BACnet systems.
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Remote login to IoT Gateway
If an IoT Gateway is deployed in the industrial plant and if some application crashes in Gateway or some need of login to the gateway.
In that case, Azure IoT edge should allow users to remotely log in to the IoT gateway using ssh/telnet. This will very easy to monitor the status and debugging/maintenance.10 votes -
More options, or configuration parameters, of storeAndForwardConfiguration
storeAndForwardConfiguration has a parameter, timeToLiveSecs to specify offline period to retain data.
Preferable to add following 3 parameters to storeAndForwardConfiguration
1. Limit the amount of disk usage to be used for SnF feature.
2. Specify the directory/path of storage for SnF feature
3. Flush un-forwarded messages in SnF memory out to specified files9 votes -
Container Encryption
Provide container encryption technologies (e.g. Vormetric from Thales) to Azure IoT Edge to make sure that partners protect their IP
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Low bandwidth / partially connected: message delivery priority
For scenarios with low bandwidth and connectivity issues sending messages in the FIFO order of the message cache after being offline is not working. We need a way to specify "important" messages (delivery priority) that needs to be sent before trying to send all other messages from the msg cache. Specifying different TTL values for different priorities would be necessary as well.
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Enable Azure Media Services streaming an analytics through IoT Edge.
Live media streams requires usually a good bandwith. By running the Azure Media Services, through the IoT Edge, it should be possible to employ ML, and vision analytics on the edge before streaming to cloud.
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Delta Updates for Modules for low-bandwith scenarios
Provide a (binary) delta update process for module/container updates. As of now Azure IoT Edge is not suitable for low-bandwith / bad connectivity (eg. cellular) scenarios as the module/container download always pulls the whole image with potentially hundreds of MBs.
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Safe Storage for Container Registry Credentials
Using a Azure Container Registry which is not public leads to having the credentials to the registry on every deployed device.
It would be nice to have the authentication handled by the IoT Hub or a solution to store the credentials inside the tpm (if it would be necessary to have them onto each device)2 votesCurrently we encrypt the container registry credentials to disk on Edge devices. In the future we’d like to send them down to Edge devices already encrypted.
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Allow for placeholder variables in IoT Edge deployment templates
I am looking to have a configured deployment for Azure IoT Edge that automatically gets applied, based on the configured tags for a new IoT Edge device.
That works perfectly (modules are being set, routes are defined, module twins are configured)However, I’d like to leverage a concept like ‘placeholder values’ that I can override on edge device level.
For example: I might have 5 different devices, all using the same deployment, but inside one of their module, I need to set a specific Environment Variable, or update a value in their desired properties (of the module twin). Once creating…1 voteWe see the value in the feature; however there is no easy way to do this at the moment.
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Certificate based Proxy Authentication
Can you please provide support for certificate based proxy authentication on IoT Edge. The certificate are client signed certificates used to securely authenticate within the client network.
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Azure IoT Edge Tier 1 support for Ubuntu running on ARM32
ARM32 is by far the most popular hardware platform for edge devices, because of low cost and high reliability.
Ubuntu Core is growing in popularity. (https://www.ubuntu.com/download/iot)
It is surprising to me that there is no Tier 1 support for Ubuntu Core and ARM32.
I think that Tier 1 support for the most popular HW-SW combination would be a win-win, for Microsoft and for IoT OEMs.
1 voteSupporting Ubuntu Core is of interest for us; however there are other OS that we’re prioritizing higher. For example:
- supporting CentOS provides installers for all RPM based Linux systems.
- supporting Yocto is necessary for folks creating custom images for small devices.
I anticipate that we’ll get to Ubuntu Core once some of these other systems have been supported.
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Windows ML or ONNX support on Windows IoT
I would like to see if Windows Container support Windows ML with the help of at GA with the assit with DirectX that supporting Intel(tm) UHD Graphics 6xx. It is the best scenario If it supports GT3e graphics accelerator.
1 voteI will pass this feedback along the machine learning team.
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Benchmark AI models running on IoT devices
Please implement a native AI benchmarking toolkit that will allow us to monitor AI machine learning performance on IoT devices
An azure dashboard monitoring performance would be most welcome
1 voteI will pass this feedback along to the Azure Machine Learning team.
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