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| -title: Gateways for downstream devices - Azure IoT Edge |
| 2 | +title: Use Azure IoT Edge as a gateway for downstream devices |
3 | 3 | description: Use Azure IoT Edge to create a transparent, opaque, or proxy gateway device that sends data from multiple downstream devices to the cloud or processes locally.
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4 | 4 | author: PatAltimore
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6 | 6 | ms.author: patricka
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| -ms.date: 04/29/2025 |
| 7 | +ms.date: 07/09/2025 |
8 | 8 | ms.topic: concept-article
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9 | 9 | ms.service: azure-iot-edge
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10 | 10 | services: iot-edge
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40 | 40 | Beginning with version 1.2 of IoT Edge, transparent gateways can handle connections from downstream IoT Edge devices.
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41 | 41 |
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| -<!-- TODO add a downstream IoT Edge device to graphic --> |
| 42 | +<!-- |
| 43 | +Change arrow styles to include a double hyphen to make it work in the markdown mermaid renderer. The single hyphen is a workaround for the HTML end comment tag. |
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| 45 | +```mermaid |
| 46 | +graph TD |
| 47 | + A[IoT hub] -> B[IoT Edge gateway] |
| 48 | + B -> C[Downstream device 1] |
| 49 | + B -> D[Downstream device 2] |
| 50 | + B -> E[Downstream IoT Edge device] |
| 51 | + E -> F[Child device 1] |
| 52 | + E -> G[Child device 2] |
| 53 | + style A fill:#f9f,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px |
| 54 | + style B fill:#bbf,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px |
| 55 | + style C fill:#bfb,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px |
| 56 | + style D fill:#bfb,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px |
| 57 | + style E fill:#bbf,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px |
| 58 | + style F fill:#bfb,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px |
| 59 | + style G fill:#bfb,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px |
| 60 | +``` |
| 61 | +--> |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +:::image type="content" source="media/iot-edge-as-gateway/edge-gateway-relationship.png" alt-text="Diagram showing the device parent and child relationship using IoT Edge as a gateway"::: |
43 | 64 |
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44 | 65 | ### Parent and child relationships
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45 | 66 |
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