Microsoft Launches Public Preview of Azure IoT Hub Device Streams

To encourage continuing development and secure connectivity for a diverse range of new internet of things devices, Microsoft has launched a public preview of its Azure IoT Hub Device Streams to help make it happen. An IoT Hub device stream is a data transfer tunnel that provides connectivity between two TCP/IP-enabled endpoints, wrote Reza Sherafat, the senior program manager for the Azure IoT team, in a recent post on the Microsoft Azure Blog."One side of the tunnel is an IoT device and the other side is a customer endpoint that intends to communicate with the device," wrote Sherafat. That customer endpoint, also commonly called a service endpoint, needs help in many cases where direct connectivity to a device is prohibited based on the organization's security policies and connectivity restrictions placed on its networks, he wrote. "These restrictions, while justified, frequently impact various legitimate scenarios that require connectivity to an IoT device."