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title: Gateways for downstream devices - Azure IoT Edge
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title: Use Azure IoT Edge as a gateway for downstream devices
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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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author: PatAltimore
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ms.author: patricka
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ms.date: 04/29/2025
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ms.date: 07/09/2025
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ms.topic: concept-article
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ms.service: azure-iot-edge
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Beginning with version 1.2 of IoT Edge, transparent gateways can handle connections from downstream IoT Edge devices.
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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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```mermaid
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graph TD
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A[IoT hub] -> B[IoT Edge gateway]
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B -> C[Downstream device 1]
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B -> D[Downstream device 2]
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B -> E[Downstream IoT Edge device]
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E -> F[Child device 1]
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E -> G[Child device 2]
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style A fill:#f9f,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px
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style B fill:#bbf,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px
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style C fill:#bfb,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px
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```
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:::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":::
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### Parent and child relationships
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