Angular & the Cloud: Serverless IoT with Azure & ESP8266

Nowadays you can buy a lot of stuff for home automation. Amazon Echo, Google Home, etc. are used as a home automation hubs and controllers for smart devices like Hue lights, smart locks, air conditioner, cameras or your lawn mower. Cool consumer stuff, ready to be used in your own home. But what happens if your customer wants his hardware to be “home automatable”? A difficult task? Maybe not! With microcontrollers like the ESP8266 and tools like Azure IoT Hub and Azure Functions we’re able to connect everything to the cloud and to our smartphones easily. And with a little security sugar its safe as well! Join Manuel Rauber in this short talk about getting things “home automatable”.

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1. Angular & the Cloud
   Serverless IoT with Azure & ESP8266
   Manuel Rauber
   @manuelrauber
   Consultant
   

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2. Consultant @ Thinktecture AG
   ! manuel.rauber@thinktecture.com
   " @manuelrauber
   # https://manuel-rauber
   .com
   Microsoft MVP
   The guy who’s talkin’
   Angular & the Cloud: Serverless IoT with Azure & ESP8266
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   Manuel Rauber
   

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3. Talking Points
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4. • A lot of IoT-ready devices are already out there:
   • Google Home, Amazon Alexa, …
   • Philips Hue Lights, Spotify Speaker, …
   • Smart Locks, temperature control, …
   • Cameras, lawn mower, …
   • What about „my custom hardware“?
   • As a developer?
   • As a hardware vendor?
   • What can be used to bring my devices to the cloud to be home-automatable?
   Scenario
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5. • Microcontroller unit
   • 80 MHz
   • 64 KiB instruction RAM, 96 KiB data RAM
   • IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (WEP
   , WPA/WPA2)
   • Full TCP/IP stack
   • SDKs
   • NodeMCU (LUA)
   • Arduino (C++)
   • Espruino (JavaScript)
   ESP8266
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6. IoT Hub
   • Bi-directional communication with IoT devices
   • Authentication
   • IoT device management
   • Supports MQTT (machine-to-machine connectivity protocol)
   • Lightweight
   • Publish/Subscribe
   • Lots of SDKs
   • C
   • .NET
   • Node.js
   Azure
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7. Event Hub
   • Near real-time event communication
   • Fully managed by Azure – no servers to maintain
   • Easily scalable for millions of events per second
   • Lots of SDKs
   • C
   • Java
   • .NET
   • Node.js
   • Python
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8. Cosmos DB
   • „Globally distributed, multi-model database“
   • Elastically scalable
   • No database schema/index management
   • Fully managed by Azure
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9. Functions
   • Event-driven
   • Serverless („focus on app instead of infrastructure“)
   • Easy interaction possibilities with other Azure Services
   • Cosmos DB
   • Storage
   • 3rd-parties like Twilio also possible
   • SDKs for
   • .NET
   • JavaScript
   • PHP
   • Bash
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10. PoC Architecture
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11. Angular & the Cloud: Serverless IoT with Azure & ESP8266
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    DEMO
    

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12. Thank you! Questions?
    @manuelrauber
    manuel.rauber@thinktecture.com
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