IoT Plug and Play

2019: Announcement

At the beginning of May, 2019 Microsoft provided the tool for fast connection of the equipment of Internet of Things to cloud services. The solution was received by the name IoT Plug and Play.

  The Plug and Play function (literally "included and work") implemented in Windows allows to automatically determine automatically new (yet not present at a system) the device, for example, the keyboard, a mouse or the printer. After installation of a component it can be used in work at once, passing manual manipulations on installation of drivers for it.

Connect the IoT-device to a cloud as a mouse to the PC: Microsoft has a tool

IoT Plug and Play solves one of the biggest problems which developers face — scaling of the IoT-equipment. Earlier it was necessary to create the software for the specific supported attached devices.

The new tool from Microsoft offers a wide ecosystem of the certified partner devices which can be quickly and are easily connected, noted in Microsoft. Compal, Tokyo Electron Device, Atmark Techno, Seeed, Delta Electronics, Sharp, Plat’Home, Via, Thundercomm, Branium, Wistron, Kyocera and STMicroelectronics were among the first partners of the company in this project.

The company calls IoT Plug and Play the modern language of modeling capable to allocate IoT-solutions with opportunities of cloud computing. Thanks to this technology developers can connect IoT-devices to clouds without writing of the inline code.

It is possible to look at the supporting IoT Plug and Play of the device in the register of Azure IoT Device Catalog.

The concept of the Plug and Play in the field of Internet of Things is also developed by the Linux Foundation organization. It is about the EdgeX platform within which inclusion in an ecosystem of the growing community of IoT solution providers is provided. EdgeX provides to developers the ready configured infrastructure for deployment of peripheral solutions.^[1]

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