Real-time asset tracking with Azure: leveraging IoT, maps, and serverless technologies

Overview

Implementing high throughput event processing with Azure services presents many interesting challenges. A location tracking scenario adds its own challenges on top of those, such as dealing with coordinate systems and map services. Picking the right Azure services is important as is how they are configured and used. In this talk we will look at a scenario that our team had to implement, the challenges it presented, and how we solved them using Azure services. We will go through a demo application that uses simulated GPS trackers and shows their real-time location on a map view. We will also look at possible optimizations and options. In this talk we will look at the following Azure services: Event Hubs, Functions, SQL, Data Explorer, Maps, and SignalR Service.