22-25 April 2026
SQLBits 2017

Building an End to End IoT Solution Using Pi Sensors & Azure

Demonstrating an end to end IoT solution providing real-time sensor data from a Raspberry Pi into an Azure IoT Hub, through Stream Analytics, then with outputs to Power BI and SQL DB. Learn how to build this simplified IoT solution from scratch.
The Internet of Things is the new kid on the block offering a wealth of possibilities for data streaming and rich analytics. Using a Raspberry Pi 3 we will take an end to end look at how to interact with the physical world collecting sensor values and feeding that data in real-time into cloud services for manipulation and consumption. This will be a heavily demonstrated session looking at how such an environment can be setup using Microsoft offerings, including; Windows 10 IoT Core, a C# Universal Windows Platform application, an Azure IoT Event Hub, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure SQL DB and Power BI. This is an overview of what’s possible, but showing exactly how to build such a simplified solution with a session which will be 90% demonstrations. This will hopefully add that level excitement to real-time data with plenty of hardware out there showing what it can do when setup with Microsoft software. In addition, spare Raspberry Pi devices will be available for the audience to pass around and look at. 

Speakers

Paul Andrew

mrpaulandrew.com

Paul Andrew's previous sessions

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Building an End to End IoT Solution Using Pi Sensors & Azure
Demonstrating an end to end IoT solution providing real-time sensor data from a Raspberry Pi into an Azure IoT Hub, through Stream Analytics, then with outputs to Power BI and SQL DB. Learn how to build this simplified IoT solution from scratch.