# Azure IoT Central Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [IoT Device Management Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-device-management-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 24 ## About Azure IoT Central Azure IoT Central brings the Internet of your things to life by connecting your devices, analyzing previously- untapped data, and integrate business systems and transforming your company when you uncover new business models and revenue streams. ## Azure IoT Central Reviews ### 1. I can quickly create IoT integrations in a few clicks **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** The number of connectors and customization of dashboards is very fast. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Nothing because it has good use cases that are created quickly to learn. It's a good environment **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick proofs of concept and dashboard in five minutes. Apart from moving the information to other Azure resources in a very simple way. ### 2. Complete package for IoT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** It gives all the required tools in one place. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Sometimes it gets a bit over complicated. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** The provided solutions are ranging from virtual machines to Active directories, from user restrictions to Admin privileges. ### 3. Azure for Sure! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Easy to use saves me lots of time. I have had no problems!! The biggest thing for me is it saves me time, and I can use the time saved on other projects to help me manage my day more efficiently. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** A great tool. I haven't had any issues at all! Any questions I've had somebody resolved with a quick call to the support staff who were eagerly there wanting to help. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving Time is my most significant benefit. When the Team saves time, we all win! Time equals money, and everyone benefits when we all save Money. Saving time makes us all a little more productive throughout the day. ### 4. Azure IoT Central way better than its competitor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ritwij a. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Creation and management of user roles, who can access your IoT resources and configure the level of access, very granular and self-explanatory **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** I wish they could add more security options, as leaving it by the default values opens up too many vulnerabilities. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuration of apps and devices, integrations, and administrations in an intuitive way, and navigating through the available settings. ### 5. Beginner and trial wallet friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emir B. | Digital Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Thing i would point out is the availability of service for people who want to learn more about it. When i first started to learn about IoT Azure was the great place for it. Straight forward I could delve into tutorials and examples found in documentation. I was particularly interested in Azure's IoT Hub and there was an example for every common programming language (C#, Java, Javascript, Python...). Entire chain from reading data on sensor to storing it in any kind of storage in Azure was straightforward to do. At enterprise level i find that there is a lot of flexibility regarding the prices of different services, it is easy to fit any kind of business into just about right pay tier. My company has different IoT services on Azure and we could fit all into right category for paying. Best out of these are the pay as you use services which are great for mini jobs (very cost effective). Last thing i want to mention here is Azure's App Service which can host variety of apps. Using Visual Studio is plain easy to publish an application to app service. There is great support for .Net and we had a situation where we had to upgrade our SDK to newer version. After updating the local repository it was once again enough just to re-publish the application and all was taken care of automatically! **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** We had a couple of situations where it was difficult to set up debugging of web applications on Azure, because the logs are in our opinion not clearly documented. Also some parts about IoT Hub are not clear even with documentation, but it was overcome-able. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very big one actually. It enables us to connect thousand of sensors on manufacturing machines to a Hub where all data is processed and stored into multiple database systems. Then it enables us to deploy our applications and web jobs very easily. In the end it results with very complex solution for a very complex problem, but Azure has so far excelled for it. ### 6. A lot of help and customisation available on azure iot hub with streaming **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faraz S. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Testing software, azure function, stream analytical job those services are user friendly and there is a lot customization and help available and also logging all information if i got any error so it's very helpful. When i go with iot hub there is many way to communicate and process the data , once you will configure iot hub than you integrate stream analytical job to save data in azure sql server ,In stream analytical job has many feature to process json , docx , xml kind of data ,you can write own JavaScript functions to process or decode your iot data if you want to process or embed your logic in stream analytical job. But i should mention stream analytical job in too costly service please need to thing about cost. Another way to process the iot hub , we have server less azure function where is more functionality and function available like azure iot hub trigrre, iot event hub .In case of iot hub we can use iot hub trigger by grouping to merge or group the iot information and also you can store information of data in sql ,mysql , or other database structures. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** just only one thing downsizing of iot hub there is 5s water mark delay just need to minimise that delay. **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** Reduce the water mark delay. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oil gas industry and traffic lights monitoring, there is only one disadvantage water mark delay. ### 7. It made system integrations possible for my THE CORE™ HYPER VX-1 SYSTEM™ : OSIRIS ONE™ A.I. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent የአማልክት ፈቃድ M. | Chief Executive Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** The ability to integrate all my devices, industry-focused application templates for retail, healthcare, government, and energy, Other features include: support for IoT edge devices and module deployments, for customers to deploy cloud workloads directly onto connected devices; plug-and-play support for faster device development and connectivity; ability to save, load, and re-use applications; options for exporting data to other Azure services; support for single applications with multiple tenants; and custom user roles for control of data, actions, and configurations in the system. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** 1 .The inability to have it operational and smoothly with Ubuntu and Ubuntu servers and Huawei's Harmony operating system devices. 2. A fragmented ecosystem of standards, devices, and services. Wi-Fi’s power requirements and range constraints limit its suitability to IoT sensors and tags that are meant to run on batteries or relay information over long distances. 3.Inherently weak security. IoT endpoints often lack the hardware capabilities to support security best-practices, such as digital certificates. 4. A lack of interoperability between devices, causing extensive system integration i.e. Huawei Chips **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** Its the perfect Iot solution for current and future device's operating systems, integration as well as makes it easy for interoperability of different platforms and at the ‘cloud platform’ layer, Microsoft Iot Central can provide everything required to build an IoT solution without the need to invest in costly and fault-prone infrastructure that’s difficult to scale .Azure IoT Central is the one service you’ll need to connect end devices, both new and existing, to the cloud and build simple and straightforward applications to deliver insights to decision-makers. This service was designed to be simple. There are several prebuilt templates for popular use cases in various industries (e.g. patient monitoring in healthcare, inventory management in retail, etc.) available to speed up the development. App platform allows customizing user roles, access and configuration for both security and usability. The device management module enables device monitoring and remote management, including problem detection and remote reconfiguration. And finally, Azure IoT Central allows you to integrate your IoT application with the existing business infrastructure and other services . **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** the inability which i had of not being able to get all eGovermnment devices working in a uniform way and getting any easy flow of data to the main core of my system .As we work with our international federal partners, we find that IoT Central networks are being deployed in an ad hoc way: agencies want to fix a specific problem, such as better tracking of supplies, so they buy a specific IoT-based system. Later they are in need of an IoT Central capability for something different, such as on-base security, so they procure a separate system. Although each deployment works for that particular use case, what they end up with is multiple, uncoordinated gateways, expensive cable pulls, additional switches and several applications to manage. ### 8. Good for Knowledge ,Architecture & End to End IoT Learning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanket S. | Team Lead - Digital Transformation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Initial level to Expert knowledge provided in Azure IOT Central 1) Azure IoT Center 2)Edge & Hub Concept 3) Every Module & Section with Sandbox Exercise --10/10 4)Security 5)Storage 6)Azure IoT Central Flow -Dashboard, Device Grouping, Rule Engine, Analytics, Multiple Job creation in Application wise on Azure IoT Central, Real-Time Analytics, Email Central in Realtime, Database Mapping with devices and Device Twins, Firmware Update execution, 7) Build & Deploy Devices 8) VM Instance 9)Multiple Platform support like NodeJs, C# 10)Example Provided 11)I like demo and tutorials 12) Data Export Options 13) Easily Configure and understandable how to map in Device in Multiple Region 14)Case study execution **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** It's difficult to say dislike. 1) As of now all learning content is good with Sandbox as I required for End to End Cycle. If possible to add more video for learning and experiment exercise. **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** 1) Good For Architecture Flow Learning and understanding how exactly pre-requisite for IoT 2) End to End Understanding 3) Different types of services & major provided security 4) Easily Scalable Devices , Instance Creation & with more features **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefit is many. 1) Expert level understanding 2) Multiple Storage option 3) Securely Connect Device on Cloud 4) Dashboard Creation - Dynamic Templated Generation Visualization 5) Hub & Edge Device Fundamentals The main benefit I realized Architecture & End To End Lifecycle also learns in growth in which Azure is provided. it's helpful in my carrier. ### 9. IoT Central was instrumental in developing a prototype for a long term project in a very short time **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adi S. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** The fact that most of the scenarios were already thought of and supported by the platform. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Minor modifications required some effort to do so. While it would've been easy for someone familiar, it took a little longer than expected for a person new to such a platform. **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** If you're relatively well-versed before you get into it, you'll have a much better time of making use of it. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped solve some pipeline streamlining issues with regards to my prototype. Now that I've realized the inner workings, the benefits are that going forward, it'll be so much easier and faster to implement. ### 10. AZURE IOT central Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** satyansh s. | Software Development Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Ease of connecting multiple devices and quick set up. I liked that we can see all our devices at one places irrespective of the make and model. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** There is nothing sort of disliking , but yes may be there can be better documentation ona granular level. Also please add support for window IOT core in new raspberry please. **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** I would recommend this to everyone who is starting with IOT. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically we are creating MVPs as of now using raspberry PIs for agriculture and manufacturing sector. I have developed on MVP for mask detector using Windows IOT core and Raspberry pi 3. ### 11. A powerful, secure and robust IoT Solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Batuhan U. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** The most important feature of the product is that it provides very strong security standards. In addition, having detailed documentation about the product allows you to learn everything about the product. In addition, the product is very easy to integrate and implement into your system. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** The only thing I can say about the product is the pricing model. This model is not as flexible as its competitors. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** The highly robust and scalable Azure IoT can be easily deployed to manage and run any IoT infrastructure (messaging, notifications, business rule engine, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence) you need. It also integrates well with broader Azure offerings and other open source tools. Security is a professional and the user base is growing. Another advantage is geo-availability, especially if you need to support different requirements such as GDPR or China. ### 12. An easy to use product if you don't need a solution tailored to your need **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dong Q. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** A lot of build-in features reduce your overall development time and allow fast speed to market. The build-in dashboard saves a lot of time for the operational team to monitor the devices' health and telemetry. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Very limited customization is allowed which sometimes troubleshooting issues become a challenge. It's most likely going to be more expensive for its ongoing cost. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast speed to market with all the features you need is the number one benefit and you don't need to worry about the security of your solution. ### 13. Scalability is the biggest plus with Azure IoT **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi Teja Reddy N. | Senior .Net Full Stack Web Developer || Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Scalable to millions of messages in real-time is the biggest asset. We are able to connect hundreds of sensors which are sending millions of messages and track the data in real time. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** The api documentation to connect to the IoT services should be more clear. **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** Go ahead and try it. You will realize its potential. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are monitoring real time asset tracking system which consists of many physical devices. We are able to analise the anamolies in the assets that got deployed ### 14. Excellent solution for deploying the IOT devices **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ishan a. | Technical Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Easy to integrate the iot devices with IOT hub and implementation of analytics via stream analytics. Easy to integrate with other azure services. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Sometimes we will have to do a lot of configurations for device configurations. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the IOT device management can be easily done , No matter how much data is there coming on high frequency , the azure IOT hub and stream analytics all together do a really great job. ### 15. I feel compare to aws IoT solution, the ui little confused **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SUBRAMANIAN M. | Senior Associate Consultant (Devops professional | Opensource professional), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** In my understanding it's best because of we integrate any azure service with IoT core. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** The ui and complexity of development. That's only **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used for my poc part, then i moved to gcp because gcp provide good ai solution. ### 16. I have 19 years IT experience with IoT Book Author and currently working as Enterprise architect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** I like this service due to low maintenance cost and also plug and play . The other features including the S L A and also the serverless design patterns **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** The Security Features mainly how to give more control to open source tools integration **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of Digital Factory , patient monitoring in healthcare and inventory management in retail and ecommerce systems. There are log of innovation solutions also we are targeting. ### 17. Azure IoT Central review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** It is a one stop for maintaining and monitoring multiple IoT services in Azure. Also, portal is designed in a very user friendly way. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** This tool should expand to include many more features like other elements of Azure IoT suite like certificate handling, Azure log analytics, etc. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding series of IoT devices for my project. ### 18. IoT Central is a easy tool for IOT developers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dumin S. | Founder , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** IIOT Module which allows for OPC UA for IIOT **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Currently I don't have any at the moment **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** IIOT problems together with OPC Issues we have recitfied ### 19. How Azure IoT Central helps business succeed **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** It is easy to build a template. IoT is not rocket science anymore.Anyone can build it easily in quicker pace. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** The downside of using azure iot central is you dont get to learn nuances of iot .Its make life so easier :) **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collection of industrial sensor data from scada and modbus systems at faster pace and see the plots quickly for analysis. ### 20. C# Dev 3+ years **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** No up front cost, Standard Microsoft web UI design Easy extention of device Information **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Confusion between lot hub and iot central **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** Be careful with add-ons price can quickly spiral **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving us a centralised point for environmental lot devices ### 21. Visit IoT for insights and predictive capabilities **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** on azure platform with multitude capabilities **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** not sure if it can be connected via related APIs **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** yes, and be sure to get your developer teams in the project. **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** connect partner data ### 22. Superb **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Easy to learn and manage. For data storing, masking , triggering **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Nothing as such.i liked that. Data masking **Recommendations to others considering Azure IoT Central:** A manaageble and understandable cloud platform to work with **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project requirements ### 23. All in one IoT solution for your enterprise **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Reema U. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** It has all the tools and features starting from Edge device life cycle management, data analytics and connectors to different external entities. Very secure and easy to set up **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Nothing. Its one of the best. It caters all the requirements when you are starting a project with IoT **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployments and management of Edge, IoT devices ### 24. IOT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared R. | Principal Architect, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Azure IoT Central?** Compared to other IoT products, it has an easy developer experience which has been getting better by the day. **What do you dislike about Azure IoT Central?** Not a complete solution but very close to **What problems is Azure IoT Central solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ingesting sensor data for later analytics in the healthcare space ## Azure IoT Central Discussions - [What is the difference between IoT central and IoT hub?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-iot-central-and-iot-hub) - 1 comment - [View Azure IoT Central pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-iot-central/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+03%3A20%3A20+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=616d1898-4c0c-4dd1-887b-47205210c680&secure%5Btoken%5D=f88a2794e5eba344ad1a9651b3e8abc2c1b07b4c588a5358e25b96cd5fd3339b&format=llm_user) ## Azure IoT Central Features **Device Recognition** - Device Discovery - Device Types - Dashboard ** Application Design** - Interface - Templates - Device Workflows - Testing - Hardware Support - Application Deployment **Monitoring** - Device Status - Alerts & Notifications - Analytics ** Application Control** - Data Migration - Data Syncronization - Data Security - Integrations - Lifecycle Management - Analytics **Provisioning** - Remote Configuration - Event Triggering - Device Diagnostics & Repair - Firmware Updates ## Top Azure IoT Central Alternatives - [Google Cloud IoT Core](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-iot-core/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (29 reviews) - [IBM Watson IoT Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-watson-iot-platform/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (21 reviews) - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (694 reviews)