Slides for a talk presented at the eleventh meeting of the .NET User Group Paderborn, Germany

1. Integrating The Things Network Applications
with Azure IoT Services
Jens Siebert (@jens_siebert)

3. AGENDA
The Things Network Basics
Azure IoT Services
Azure Functions
The Integration
Use Cases
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2
3
4
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4. Long Range Wide Area Network

5. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION
Suitable for Spotify, Netflix,
large file exchange
Suitable for battery powered,
connected sensors

6. LORA

7. LORA
RANGE
LOW POWER
CONSUMPTION
BANDWIDTH
THOUSANDS OF DEVICES
UNLICENSED SPECTRUM
Up to 15km
Devices can last months / years
on a battery
Can be connected per gateway
868MHz (EU) 915MHz (US)
Max 50kb/s

8. Our mission is to build a
DECENTRALIZED,
OPEN and CROWDSOURCED
INTERNET OF THINGS data network
OWNED and OPERATED by its USERS

9. BUILDING A GLOBAL NETWORK

10. BUILDING A GLOBAL NETWORK

11. HOW DOES THIS WORK?
DEVICES GATEWAYS NETWORK
SERVER
APPLICATION
SERVER

12. SMART MOUSE TRAP
www.xignal.com

13. AELORA
www.aelora.nl

14. FLOOD.NETWORK
www.flood.network/

15. FLOOD.NETWORK

16. SAFECAST
www.blog.safecast.org/

18. Application Integrations
DEVICES GATEWAYS NETWORK
SERVER
APPLICATION
SERVER

19. The Things Network APIs

20. Azure IoT Services Overview

21. Azure IoT Hub Overview

22. Azure IoT Hub Overview

23. Azure Functions Overview

24. Azure Functions Use Cases

25. Azure Functions Use Cases

26. Azure Functions Use Cases

27. Integration Functionality
- D e v i c e M a n a g e m e n t E v e n t s ( C r e a t e , D e l e t e )
- D e v i c e t o C l o u d M e s s a g e s
- D e v i c e M a n a g e m e n t E v e n t s ( C r e a t e , D e l e t e ) *
- C l o u d t o D e v i c e M e s s a g e s * *
* = I m p l e m e n t a t i o n p h a s e
* * = N o i d e a y e t 😉

28. Integration Architecture
M Q T T
H T T P
H T T P

29. Demo Time!

32. Code: github.com/jsiebert/TTNAzureBridge
Slides: slideshare.net/JensSiebert1
Jens Siebert (@jens_siebert)
www.thethingsnetwork.org

33. YOU ARE THE NETWORK
LET’S BUILD THIS THING TOGETHER!
Jens Siebert (@jens_siebert)
www.thethingsnetwork.org