Azure IoT Central
Microsoft IoT Central is a fully managed IoT SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor and manage your IoT assets at scale, so you can create deep insights from your IoT data and take informed action. Microsoft IoT Central dramatically lowers the barriers of entry for companies looking to revolutionize their business with IoT.
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Provide public dashboards
A nice feature for IoT Central in my point of view would be the option to share telemetry and status dashboards with a public audience.
In my scenario I'd like to share e.g. the dashboard from the applications home page to an audience in my organization where I don't want to give each user individual access to my application.
This would also be a nice feature because it would enable me to embed the dashboards into individual built applications aside to IoT Central which use the data collected by IoT Central.
39 votesThank you for taking the time to submit feedback. The functionality you’ve requested is something that we’re currently considering. We’ll follow up once we have more updates.
-Luis
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Please provide advanced rules settings
Please provide more options for setting up rules e.g. on telemetry data.
In my case I wanted to set up a rule when a condition lasts over a certain timeframe. I haven't found a way to do this with IoT Centrals rules management.
Another pain point I noticed was when I set up a rule with a threshold that should send me an e-mail when the rule is triggered, my mail account was spammed with many mails for historical occurences of the trigger. So it would be helpful to have an option whether a rule should be triggered on historical…
29 votesWe are adding support for Aggregate functions and Time windowing in Rules that will enable monitoring telemetry over a certain timeframe before alerting.
I will update the thread once the feature is available to try out.
Thanks
Ankit -
support objects in JSON payload
Nested objects and arrays.
Use case: When the device acts as a protocol translator for another network, example BLE and the payloads are identical but from a different address.
Here is a simplified example:
"ble": [
{
"000B576FC3C7": {
"v": "4",
"T": 30,
"H": 24
},
"000B576FAAAA": {
"v": "4",
"T": 23,
"H": 24
},
}
],27 votesHello all,
We have added support for the complex objects with the latest preview update of Azure IoT Central. We also have array support on the roadmap and will share more details as they become available.
Please note that these features are in preview and we are listening to the feedback to further refine them.
You can read more about the new capabilities in the device template here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-central/core/tutorial-define-iot-device-type-pnp?toc=/azure/iot-central-pnp/toc.json&bc=/azure/iot-central-pnp/breadcrumb/toc.json#prerequisites
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Ankit -
Mobile apps for Azure IoT Central
I want to view/operate our devices by our phone.
26 votesHi Yoshihiro,
Thanks for taking the time to provide us with feedback. We’re currently investigating mobile offering. We’ll provide updates as we learn more.
Thanks,
Luis on behalf of the Azure IoT Central team -
Trigger event based on offline devices
So what would be great is if there was some way to detect when devices haven't "reported in" within a specific time span to be alerted to offline devices. I haven't found a way to do it but I may be missing something.
22 votesThank you for taking time to submit the feedback. We are considering this functionality and will follow up once we have further updates.
Thanks,
Ankit -
Save Analytics
Be able to save configuration for Analytics search.
It is very tedious every time we want to look for certain devices we have to complete Device Set, Filter and Time Period. If you can name and save these you will be able to get these results at a click of a button (and hopefully add them to your dashboards). At the moment we have to go through this process of completing the search many time a day which is wasting a lot of time.18 votesThanks for the feedback! We are considering the suggesstion and will provide an update here as soon as we have more information to share.
Thanks
Ankit -
Main dashboard should support device sets and multiple devices
Currently I can't put a map on the main dashboard with more than one device on it. I would like to have a way to add a map to the main dashboard that show multiple devices based on some kind of rule.
Example: I want to see a map of devices that report a temperature above 50.
17 votesThank you for the feedback! We are currently evaluating Dashoboard improvements and will share an update here as soon as we have finalized our plans. Stay tuned and please keep the feedback coming!
Thanks
Ankit -
View raw telemetry data sent by the device without any aggregation
What I'd like to do is display the data in the storage of IoT Central by displaying the defaults other than the maximum, minimum, average, and count.
For example, it is difficult to deal with situations where two data are added when one of the two data is an integer value and the other is a decimal value.
15 votesWe are currently evaluating displaying raw telemetry without any aggregation and will share an update as we formalize our plan.
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Ankit -
Import and export templates
Hello,
Could we have the feature to import/export device templates
For example: save template as json/yml -> go to different app import from json/yml file
Or alternatively have the ability to link to a repository where templates can be edited and released onto the application.
Many thanks
Samuel
14 votesHi Sam -
Thanks for taking the time to submit feedback. I understand how frustrating it might be to have to re-create an app template from scratch. We currently support an App Copy feature that enables you to create a replica of an app, except the devices/rules associated with it. We’re also exploring surfacing capabilities to import/export templates, we’ll update here when we have more info to share.
Cheers,
Luis on behalf of the Azure IoT Central team -
Show last known value for lists of devices on the dashboard
We'd like the main dashboard to have the ability to show a list of last known values for all our devices (of a particular device type is fine). Adding individual last known value widgets, one by one, is not practical as it's not data driven and you will soon run out of screen real estate once you're past about 20 devices.
We thought the 'device set grid' would do this for us but bizarrely it only shows things that don't change often for us like settings and properties.
12 votesThank you for the feedback. We are working on understanding the customer needs for more granular tiles in the dashboards, so your request is very timely. I cannot provide any timelines at this time, but we’ll post an update here once we have a better idea of the improvements we’ll make to the dashboard tiles.
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Ankit -
Allow to send C2D messages from function and UI
Currently there is no clear way of sending a C2D message(direct method or messages) to the devices configured through the IoT-central
The users should be able to send a C2D to a particular device, once a workflow process is complete after a Function is triggered from an Alert on IoT-central.
12 votesHi Saikumar,
We are exploring APIs to enable sending C2D messages without using the UI.
Today a workaround is by using Microsoft Flow to build your workflow and updating a property/setting of a specific device through the IoT Central connector.
Thanks,
Vivian -
Dashboard with multiple devices, group by "tag or property"
Nice if I was able to group different devices (models) in a single view.
For example:
By store, I have 3 refrigerators, one coffee machine, and one couponing station12 votesHi Uri,
Thanks for taking the time to provide us with feedback. We’ll consider this as we plan our future investments. We’ll post updates here as we learn more.
Thanks,
Luis on behalf of the Azure IoT Central team -
Virtual State and Event
Allow adding state and event fields to the model, even if these don't originate from the device. When a rule occurs on any telemetry field an action set the desired value into these virtual fields.
Example: When Temperature > 80 Deg, Set the Virtual Event vTemperatureEvent = IntoAlarm and the vTemperatureState = "Alarm"
When the temperature drops back to 65, vTemperatureEvent = OutOfAlarm and vTemperatureState = Normal12 votesHi Uri,
Thanks for taking the time to provide us with feedback. This is great feedback and we’ll consider this as we build our feature roadmap. We’ll provide updates here once we make any determinations.
Thanks,
Luis on behalf of the Azure IoT Central team -
Save measurements selection for future navigation
If I leave the "Measurements" view and return, I lost the selected fields and settings. It reverts to the first 4 elements in the payload always in average.
It is clear this view is fluid and dynamic, but nice if it was able to remember where I left it.
9 votesHi Uri,
Thanks for taking the time to provide us with feedback. I understand that the lack of state can be frustrating. We’re actively working to enhance this experience, so stay tuned for updates.
Thanks,
Luis on behalf of the Azure IoT Central team -
PowerApps - get device telemetry data via connector
Would be nice getting telemetry data in PowerApps.
We already can get device name and some other features via connector like this: "AzureIoTCentral.DevicesGet("---myapplicationID---","---my-device-ID---").name"The formula editor offers additional actions but actual data can't be retrieved. E.g. this formula returns with an empty table:
"AzureIoTCentral.DevicesGet("---myapplicationID---","---my-device-ID---").measurements.telemetry.key"
If I try adding telemetry field name at the end of formula, I get error message: This identifier not recognized.Can you please add this functionality to IoT Central connector?
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Allow for connection string creation via the web UI
Right now I need to use another tool - dps-keygen - and provide it with Primary key, Device id and Scope id to generate a device connection string ; it would be great if I could generate and access it without downloading node.js
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Support measurements, events and states to formulate a device set conditions
The current implementation only supports adding properties to the conditions for Device-Sets.
We recommend to Support
Last Known Values, Event, and State in the query predicate.7 votesHi Uri,
Thanks for taking the time to provide us with feedback. We’ll take this into consideration as we plan feature roadmaps. We’ll post updates here as we determine next steps.
Thanks,
Luis on behalf of the Azure IoT Central team -
Show DeviceConnectedState as a property for devices
(if this suggestion already exists, please disregard)
For device sets and any device view, show the DeviceConectedState.Support rules and actions with this property.
3 use cases:
1) As an operator, I want to get an email when any device connects, I would like to see the total number of device connected
2) As an operator, I want to get a notification when any NEW device connects and nice if I was able to render a KPI for provisioning velocity
3) As an operator, I want to get a notification after 'n' minutes of device inactivity or disconnection (debounce the…6 votes -
OR operator for multiple condition in a single Rules
It is very nice that you allow entering more than one condition in the evaluation engine, but it is missing an operator for multiple conditions.
I have a Sensor that needs calibration to report temperature and humidity, it reports -999 when it is not calibrated.
I would like to set up a rule like this:
Temperature = -999 OR Humidity = -999But the way it is implemented today, the 2 conditions need to occur for the rule to trigger.
I can create 2 rules, but I am sure you have multiple discussions about it, I definitely vote to implement…
5 votesHello, Thank you for the feedback! We are considering this functionality and will follow up once we have further updates.
Thanks,
Ankit -
Chart for measurements is misleading, should use only the selected decimals
See the attached chart. The voltage fluctuated a little, and it is great that the chart can provide so much detail. but if the selection was only 2 decimals, then the expected chart is a flat line.
4.18Volts
5 votesHi Uri,
Thanks for taking the time to provide us with feedback. I can see how this could be misleading, we’ll take a look to see how we can address this. We’ll post updates here as we determine next steps.
Thanks,
Luis on behalf of the Azure IoT Central team
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