Microsoft wants Azure to power the next gen of IoT devices
 

Microsoft wants Azure to power the next gen of IoT devices
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SAN FRANCISCO — Smart devices like Amazon Echo and Nest thermostats are only as intelligent as the data behind them. Otherwise, they're just dumb household gadgets. You can put a computer brain inside any of them, but real-time info will have to come from sensors, the Internet and, increasingly, cloud-connected services.

The Echo's Alexa voice assistant, for instance, has Amazon's cloud behind it

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**w more future IoT devices and services could have Microsoft's Azure Cloud Services behind them. The company, which already handles a healthy amount of IoT traffic (2 trillion IoT messages are processed each week, according to Microsoft)*an**unced at its annual Build conference that it's making brand new Azure IoT starter kits available to developers on Thursday. Read more...


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