Cisco IoT Field Network Director vs. Microsoft Azure IoT Hub

I would recommend Azure IoT Hub for the energy industry and for massive scaling, maintaining security, and easy management of devices. It could be less suited from my point of view to small IoT projects due to the steeper learning curve.

Incentivized

• Very Strong Security Standards.
• Good documentation and easy to implement.

Incentivized

• Its expensive for individual use and price needs to be decreased.
• Documentation of IOT hub is a little confusing and needs to be detailed.
• Azure edge services are mediocre as compare to Amazon edge services.

Incentivized

Azure IoT support professionals are strong, and always provide timely responses. Vast documentation and examples are available, plus a network of professionals in the market. It's very comparable to the main competitor offer, and easily integrated into the main Azure product offer. Azure IoT is not a new solution, so it is very mature and support can easily address any day to day or architectural concern you have.

Incentivized

Azure IoT provides robust bi-directional communication within the cloud and can store millions of messages from the different devices on the cloud. It provides seamless communication and it's easy to integrate different IoT applications like app service and device management. It handles heavy throughput and can collect sensor data which is cool.

Incentivized

• Little code
• scalable
• secure

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