Merge pull request #300079 from dominicbetts/iot-overviews

IoT: Include cloud-based/edge-based terminology in IoT services

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/digital-twins/overview.md

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ms.service: azure-digital-twins
 
 *Azure Digital Twins* is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that enables the creation of twin graphs based on digital models of entire environments, which could be buildings, factories, farms, energy networks, railways, stadiums, and more—even entire cities. These digital models can be used to gain insights that drive better products, optimized operations, reduced costs, and breakthrough customer experiences.
 
-Azure Digital Twins can be used to design a digital twin architecture that represents actual IoT devices in a wider cloud solution, and which connects to [IoT Hub](../iot-hub/iot-concepts-and-iot-hub.md) device twins to send and receive live data.
+Azure Digital Twins can be used to design a digital twin architecture that represents actual IoT devices in a wider cloud-based solution, and which connects to [IoT Hub](../iot-hub/iot-concepts-and-iot-hub.md) device twins to send and receive live data.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Azure Digital Twins is different from [digital twin builder (preview) in Fabric](/fabric/real-time-intelligence/digital-twin-builder/overview) and the [device twins used by IoT Hub](../iot-hub/iot-hub-devguide-device-twins.md).

articles/iot-central/core/overview-iot-central.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: What is Azure IoT Central
 description: Azure IoT Central is an application platform that simplifies the creation of IoT solutions, reducing the overhead of IoT management operations, and development.
 author: dominicbetts
 ms.author: dobett
-ms.date: 10/14/2024
+ms.date: 05/09/2025
 ms.topic: overview
 ms.service: azure-iot-central
 services: iot-central
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ ms.custom: mvc
 
 # What is Azure IoT Central?
 
-IoT Central 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. To streamline the development of a complex and continually evolving IoT infrastructure, IoT Central lets you focus your efforts on determining the business impact you can create with the IoT data stream.
+IoT Central is an _application platform as a service (aPaaS)_ that reduces the burden and cost of developing, managing, and maintaining cloud-based IoT solutions. Use IoT Central to quickly evaluate your IoT scenario and assess the opportunities it can create for your business. To streamline the development of a complex and continually evolving IoT infrastructure, IoT Central lets you focus your efforts on determining the business impact you can create with the IoT data stream.
 
-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. After you've used IoT Central to evaluate your IoT scenario, you can then build your enterprise-ready Azure IoT solution.  
+The web UI lets you quickly connect devices, monitor device telemetry, 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. After you've used IoT Central to evaluate your IoT scenario, you can then build your enterprise-ready Azure IoT solution.  
 
 This article provides an overview of the features of Azure IoT Central.
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Every [device template](howto-set-up-template.md) includes:
   - The telemetry it streams to IoT Central.
   - The read-only properties it uses to report state to IoT Central.
   - The writable properties it receives from IoT Central to set device state.
-  - The commands called from IoT Central.
+  - The commands called from IoT Central to control the device.
 
 - Cloud properties that aren't stored on the device.
 - Customizations, forms, and device views that are part of your IoT Central application.

articles/iot-dps/about-iot-dps.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ms.subservice: azure-iot-hub-dps
 
 # What is Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service?
 
-The IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS) is a helper service for IoT Hub that enables zero-touch, just-in-time provisioning to the right IoT hub without requiring human intervention. DPS enables the provisioning of millions of devices in a secure and scalable manner. Many of the manual steps traditionally involved in provisioning are automated with DPS to reduce the time to deploy IoT devices and lower the risk of manual error.
+The IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS) is a helper service for IoT Hub that enables zero-touch, just-in-time provisioning to the right IoT hub without requiring human intervention. In a cloud-based solution, DPS enables the provisioning of millions of devices in a secure and scalable manner. Many of the manual steps traditionally involved in provisioning are automated with DPS to reduce the time to deploy IoT devices and lower the risk of manual error.
 
 ## How Device Provisioning Service works
 

articles/iot-edge/about-iot-edge.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Azure IoT Edge is a device-focused runtime that enables you to deploy, run, and
 
 Analytics drives business value in IoT solutions, but not all analytics need to be in the cloud. Azure IoT Edge helps you bring the analytical power of the cloud closer to your devices to drive better business insights and enable offline decision making. For example, you can run anomaly detection workloads at the edge to respond as quickly as possible to emergencies happening on a production line. If you want to reduce bandwidth costs and avoid transferring terabytes of raw data, you can clean and aggregate the data locally then only send the insights to the cloud for analysis.
 
-Azure IoT Edge is a feature of [Azure IoT Hub](../iot-hub/iot-concepts-and-iot-hub.md) and enables you to scale out and manage an IoT solution from the cloud. By packaging your business logic into standard containers and using optional pre-built IoT Edge module images from partners or the [Microsoft Artifact Registry](https://mcr.microsoft.com/catalog?cat=IoT%20Edge%20Modules&alphaSort=asc&alphaSortKey=Name), you can easily compose, deploy, and maintain your solution.
+Azure IoT Edge brings edge-based capabilities to a cloud-based solution and is a feature of [Azure IoT Hub](../iot-hub/iot-concepts-and-iot-hub.md) that enables you to scale out and manage an IoT solution from the cloud. By packaging your business logic into standard containers and using optional pre-built IoT Edge module images from partners or the [Microsoft Artifact Registry](https://mcr.microsoft.com/catalog?cat=IoT%20Edge%20Modules&alphaSort=asc&alphaSortKey=Name), you can easily compose, deploy, and maintain your solution.
 
 Azure IoT Edge is made up of three components:
 

articles/iot-hub-device-update/understand-device-update.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ms.subservice: device-update
 
 # What is Device Update for IoT Hub?
 
-As Internet of Things (IoT) solutions become increasingly widespread, it's essential that the devices forming these solutions are easy to connect and manage at scale. Azure Device Update for IoT Hub is a service that enables you to deploy over-the-air updates for your IoT devices.
+As Internet of Things (IoT) solutions become increasingly widespread, it's essential that the devices forming these solutions are easy to connect and manage at scale. Azure Device Update for IoT Hub is a service that enables you to deploy over-the-air updates for your IoT devices in a cloud-based IoT solution.
 
 Device Update for IoT Hub is an end-to-end platform for publishing, distributing, and managing over-the-air updates for everything from tiny sensors to gateway-level devices. To realize the full benefits of IoT-enabled digital transformation, Device Update provides capabilities to operate, maintain, and update devices at scale, such as:
 

articles/iot-hub/iot-concepts-and-iot-hub.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ms.date: 02/27/2025
 
 The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical devices that connect to and exchange data with other devices and services over the Internet or other network. There are currently over 10 billion connected devices in the world and more are added every year. Anything that can be embedded with the necessary sensors and software can be connected over the internet.
 
-Azure IoT Hub is a managed service hosted in the cloud that acts as a central message hub for communication between an IoT application and its attached devices. You can connect millions of devices and their backend solutions reliably and securely. Almost any device can be connected to an IoT hub.
+Azure IoT Hub is a managed service that acts as a central message hub in a cloud-based IoT solution. It enables reliable and secure communication at scale between an IoT application and its attached devices. Almost any device can be connected to an IoT hub.
 
 Several messaging patterns are supported, including device-to-cloud messages, uploading files from devices, and request-reply methods to control your devices from the cloud. IoT Hub also supports monitoring to help you track device creation, device connections, and device failures.
 

articles/iot-operations/overview-iot-operations.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ms.date: 10/22/2024
 
 # What is Azure IoT Operations?
 
-_Azure IoT Operations_ is a unified data plane for the edge. It's a collection of modular, scalable, and highly available data services that run on Azure Arc-enabled edge Kubernetes clusters such as [AKS Edge Essentials](#supported-environments). It enables data capture from various different systems and integrates with data modeling applications such as Microsoft Fabric to help organizations deploy the industrial metaverse.
+_Azure IoT Operations_ is a unified data plane for the edge. It's a collection of modular, scalable, and highly available data services that run on Azure Arc-enabled edge Kubernetes clusters such as [AKS Edge Essentials](#supported-environments). It enables data capture from various different systems and integrates with data modeling applications such as Microsoft Fabric to help organizations deploy the industrial metaverse in an edge-based solution.
 
 Azure IoT Operations: