Azure IoT Overview

The Azure Internet of Things (IoT) is a collection of Microsoft-managed cloud services that connect, monitor, analyze data from internet, and control billions of IoT assets. In simpler terms, an IoT solution is made up of one or more IoT devices that communicate with one or more back-end services hosted in the cloud.

Read the official documentation of Azure IoT here.

Azure IoT on Connect iPaaS

Connect iPaaS enables you to integrate Azure IoT with other SaaS and enterprise applications. You can build a workflow to send a new event or message to your IoT device based on certain events in other applications. Conversely, you can perform actions on other applications based on an event or message from an IoT device.

Figure 1. Azure IoT Application on Connect iPaaS