Author Archives: Holger Kenn

When you cannot use Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service

Hi! You may know already about the Azure IoT Device Provisioning service, if not, head to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-dps/ for more information. The idea behind DPS is short and simple: Imagine, you’re the manufacturer of an IoT device and you want enable … Continue reading

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Mioty at DPK

Hi! A couple of weeks ago, we had the Microsoft German partner conference (DPK) in Leipzig, where our IoT partners were showing their solutions. And one of the partners that presented their technology is Mioty. So what is this? (roll … Continue reading

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Hilscher NetPi: Raspberry Pi 3 for industrial automation (Part 1)

Hi! Over the last weeks, I’ve been working with a nice little device that is very useful for prototyping professional IoT. One of the challenges in this area is talking to field bus systems. There are many field busses out … Continue reading

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Just returning from ISWC2017

Hi! I’m on my way back from ISWC2017 (the International Symposium on Wearable Computing) and it’s been great! This year marks ISWC’s 20th anniversary. The web page of the first conference can now only be found on the wayback machine: … Continue reading

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Pi-Top and Windows 10 IoT Core: A Raspberry Pi Laptop running Windows

Hi! I’m in the middle of preparing a hands-on lab for an event next month, Microsoft Germany’s Technical Summit in Darmstadt. Here, we will show you how to build, customize, program and connect devices based on Windows 10 IoT. And … Continue reading

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Troubleshooting Azure IOT Hub connections on embedded Linux

Hi! I’m in Japan for a few days, working with local partners to get their devices connections to Azure IoT Hub. And I want to share a few lessons learned. We always started from the Azure IOT Hub SDK on … Continue reading

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Asia Tour: June 2016

Hi! I’m on the way back from touring partners customers in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. We had very interesting meetings with our partners there who are ready to get “things” connected to the cloud. In this post, I want … Continue reading

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AzureIotHubProxy

Today, I uploaded a project to github that I wrote in the last weeks in order to simplify things with the Azure IoT hub for demos, makers etc. If you haven’t heard about Azure IoT hub, this is a very nice … Continue reading

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My azure scripts on github

  Hi! I’ve decided to put my azure scripts on Github, that keeps them in one place and I can update whenever I find bugs. https://github.com/holgerkenn/azurescripts  I have more scripts in the queue, but I first need to remove credentials, … Continue reading

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Linux and Azure Files: you might need some help here…

  Hi! tl;dr: To mount Azure Files from linux, you need cifs support in the kernel, the right mount helper and versions recent enough to supports the SMB2 protocol version. I just got a ping from a customer who had … Continue reading

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