Capstone Update January 25, 2019

Greetings,


For this week’s capstone, the group did a bit of research instead of working to complete an integration or getting hardware to work. There are many different services offered by Microsoft Azure such general, computing, networking, storage, web mobile, databases, analytics, AI, IoT, and many other services. We wanted to learn more about these services, so we created a couple of items.



We tried Azure Cloud Database for MySQL, IoT Hub, Storage account, SQL database, Azure Cosmos DB, Virtual Network, DDoS protection and SQL Server. The goal of this research was to save sensor data directly from device to database using Node-Red, and the next step would be to do it through WiFi using a device such as ESP8266.
    

Node red has nodes designed for Microsoft Azure, we tried using the Azure SQL, database and Blob. We kept getting a disconnect or error on login even though the information we input was correct. This means that the way we set up Microsoft Azure was wrong and that will be investigated next week.


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