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articles/iot-central/core/concepts-iiot-architecture.md

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- Model and organize the data from your industrial assets and use the built-in analytics and monitoring capabilities
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By using the Azure IoT platform, IoT Central lets you evaluate highly available, scalable, and secure solutions.
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By using the Azure IoT platform, IoT Central lets you evaluate solutions that are scalable and secure.
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## Connect your industrial assets
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articles/iot-fundamentals/iot-introduction.md

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#Customer intent: As a newcomer to IoT, I want to understand what IoT is, what services are available, and examples of business cases so I can figure out where to start.

articles/iot-fundamentals/iot-services-and-technologies.md

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# What Azure technologies and services can you use to create IoT solutions?
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Azure IoT technologies and services provide you with options to create a wide variety of IoT solutions that enable digital transformation for your organization. For example, you can:
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* Use [Azure IoT Central](https://apps.azureiotcentral.com), a managed IoT application platform, to build and deploy a secure, enterprise-grade IoT solution. IoT Central features a collection of industry-specific application templates, such as retail and healthcare, to accelerate your solution development process.
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* Use [Azure IoT Central](https://apps.azureiotcentral.com), a managed IoT application platform, to evaluate your IoT solution.
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* Use Azure IoT platform services such as [Azure IoT Hub](../iot-hub/about-iot-hub.md) and the [Azure IoT device SDKs](../iot-hub/iot-hub-devguide-sdks.md) to build a custom IoT solution from scratch.
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![Azure IoT technologies, services, and solutions](./media/iot-services-and-technologies/iot-technologies-services.png)
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## Azure IoT Central
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The [IoT Central application platform](https://apps.azureiotcentral.com) reduces the burden and cost of developing, managing, and maintaining enterprise-grade IoT solutions. IoT Central's customizable web UI in lets you monitor device conditions, create rules, and manage millions of devices and their data throughout their life cycle. The API surface within IoT Central gives you programmatic access to configure and interact with your IoT solution.
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[IoT Central](https://apps.azureiotcentral.com) is an IoT application platform as a service (aPaaS) that reduces the burden and cost of developing, managing, and maintaining IoT solutions. Use IoT Central to quickly evaluate your IoT scenario and assess the opportunities it can create for your business. IoT Central streamlines the development of a complex and continually evolving IoT infrastructure by letting you to focus on determining the business impact you can create with your IoT data.
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Azure IoT Central is a fully managed application platform that you can use to create custom IoT solutions. IoT Central uses application templates to create solutions. There are templates for generic solutions and for specific industries such as energy, healthcare, government, and retail. IoT Central application templates let you deploy an IoT Central application in minutes that you can then customize with themes, dashboards, and views.
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The web UI lets you quickly connect devices, monitor device conditions, create rules, and manage devices and their data throughout their life cycle. Furthermore, it enables you to act on device insights by extending IoT intelligence into line-of-business applications. Once you've used IoT Central to evaluate your IoT scenario, you can then build your enterprise ready solutions by using the power of Azure IoT platform.
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Choose devices from the [Azure Certified for IoT device catalog](https://devicecatalog.azure.com) to quickly connect to your solution. Use the IoT Central web UI to monitor and manage your devices to keep them healthy and connected. Use connectors and APIs to integrate your IoT Central application with other business applications.
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As a fully managed application platform, IoT Central has a simple, predictable pricing model.
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## Custom solutions
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To build an IoT solution from scratch, or extend a solution created using IoT Central, use one or more of the following Azure IoT technologies and services:
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[Azure Digital Twins](../digital-twins/overview.md) is an IoT service that enables you to model a physical environment. It uses a spatial intelligence graph to model the relationships between people, spaces, and devices. By corelating data across the digital and physical worlds you can create contextually aware solutions.
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Iot Central uses digital twins to synchronize devices and data in the real world with the digital models that enable users to monitor and manage those connected devices.
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IoT Central uses digital twins to synchronize devices and data in the real world with the digital models that enable users to monitor and manage those connected devices.
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title: Azure Internet of Things (IoT) solution options
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description: Guidance on choosing between a platform services or managed app platform approach to building an IoT solution. The platform service approach uses services such as IoT Hub and Digital Twins as building blocks. The managed app platform approach uses IoT Central to quickly get started.
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description: Guidance on using platform services and a managed app platform when you're evaluating and building an IoT solution. Platform services, such as IoT Hub and Digital Twins, are building blocks for your IoT solutions. A managed app platform, such as IoT Central, lets you quickly get started evaluating an IoT solution.
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# What is the right IoT solution for your business?
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To build an IoT solution for your business, you typically choose to use either the *platform services* or the *managed app platform* approach.
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To build an IoT solution for your business, you typically evaluate your solution by using the *managed app platform* approach and build your enterprise solution by using the *platform services*.
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Platform services provide the building blocks for customized and flexible IoT applications. You have more options to choose and code when you connect devices, and ingest, store, and analyze your data. Azure IoT platform services include the products Azure IoT Hub and Azure Digital Twins.
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Platform services provide all the building blocks for customized and flexible IoT applications. You have more options to choose and code when you connect devices, and ingest, store, and analyze your data. Azure IoT platform services include the products Azure IoT Hub and Azure Digital Twins.
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A managed app platform lets you get started building apps more quickly than platform services by reducing the number of decisions needed to achieve results. The managed app platform takes care of most elements of your solution, so you can focus on adding industry knowledge, and scaling and connecting devices. Azure IoT Central is a managed app platform.
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A managed app platform lets you quickly evaluate your IoT solution by reducing the number of decisions needed to achieve results. The managed app platform takes care of most infrastructure elements in your solution, so you can focus on adding industry knowledge, and evaluating the solution. Azure IoT Central is a managed app platform.
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- Manage scaling and securing services to meet your needs.
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The platform services approach is appropriate for a business with cloud solution and device expertise that wants to:
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## Next steps
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For a more comprehensive explanation of the different services and platforms, and how they're used, see [Azure IoT services and technologies](iot-services-and-technologies.md).
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To learn more about the key attributes of successful IoT solutions, see the [8 attributes of successful IoT solutions](https://aka.ms/8attributes) white paper.
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For an in-depth discussion of IoT architecture, see the [Microsoft Azure IoT Reference Architecture](/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/iot).
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To learn about the device migration tool, see [Migrate devices from Azure IoT Central to Azure IoT Hub](../iot-central/core/howto-migrate-to-iot-hub.md).
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