1. Connected Living Connected Living What to look for Architecture
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost ​
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​​
Connected Living
Optimize the way the living environment is used, maintained, and powered to improve household wellness, reduce energy consumption, and improve safety of people at home
What to look for
Target this solution to home developers or insurers promoting the benefits of connected living for energy efficiency, utility savings, or household safety
Architecture
Solution and reference architectures
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2. Connected Living Solution
Optimize the way the living environment is used, maintained, and powered to improve household wellness, reduce energy consumption, and improve safety of people at home
Key Benefits:
Connected homes with smart devices and sensors capturing real-time data
Efficient resource management and predictive maintenance using homes performance telemetric data
Monitor and manage living activities remotely with a mobile device
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost ​
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​​

3. What to look for
Target this solution to home developers or insurers promoting the benefits of connected living for energy efficiency, utility savings, or household safety
A device in the home registers to a gateway so it can send and receive the data to and from the cloud.
The cloud routes device messages to various storage mediums for the purpose of archival and staging for downstream processing.
The solution enables users to view and analyze the data collected from their home devices. This layer also allows integration of the IoT solution back end with existing line-of-business applications to tie into enterprise business processes or workflows.
End users will be notified of alerts, alarm conditions, or necessary actions that need to be taken through push notifications.
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost ​
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​​

4. Solution Architecture
Business User
Developers planning smart living spaces promoting household wellness and energy efficiency. Also insurers promoting connected home monitoring for improved safety.
Solution goal
This solution will optimize the way the living environment is used, maintained, and powered to improve household wellness, reduce energy consumption, and improve safety.
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost ​
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​​
Solution components
This solution is built on the following Azure managed services: IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Table Storage, DocumentDB, Machine Learning, HDInsight, and PowerBI. These services run in a high availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution vs. the environment to run them in.

5. Reference Architecture
Data Ingestion
Transform
Store
Analysis & Presentation
Power Meter
Smart Plugs
Dimmer Lights
Lights
Monitoring & Servicing
Machine Learning
Asset Mgmt
Device Firmware
Power BI
Collects raw data and manages the Azure communication
Field Gateway
Stream Analytics
Storage (Azure)
Telemetry
Command & Control
HDInsight
Update & Security
Web Dashboard
IOT Hub
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6. Reference Architecture
Specialized gateway for community utilities monitoring and analysis

7. Reference Architecture
Cloud Gateway
Manages communication between devices. This enables consumer devices to receive notifications about events or state changes. Also enables user-initiated or machine-initiated control actions to be performed on producer devices, e.g., turning on/off the device.
IoT Hub
A fully managed service that enables reliable and secure bidirectional communications between millions of IoT devices and a solution backend. Provides reliable device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device messaging at scale
Stream Analytics
A fully managed, cost effective real-time event processing engine that helps to unlock data stream insights from devices, sensors, web sites, social media, applications, infrastructure systems, and more.
Azure Blob Storage
Unstructured data storage, scaling up (or down) as your needs change and you pay only for what you use, saving budget over on-premises storage options.
Azure SQL
A relational database-as-a-service that delivers predictable performance, scalability, business continuity, data protection, and near-zero administration to cloud developers
Machine Learning
A cloud predictive analytics service that makes it possible to quickly create and deploy predictive models as analytics solutions.
HDInsight
Fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA
PowerBI
A suite of business analytics tools to analyze data and share insights
Target this solution to government leaders advocating for the transformation of urban or rural areas into more livable, workable and sustainable communities
Operational analytics dashboard updated in near real time as data streams are continuously uploaded into the Azure cloud​
Localized street light remote “tuning” for weather conditions or optimizing cost ​
Act on real-time information about public safety, environmental protection, traffic flow or parking
Utilize light poles as public Wi-Fi access points ​​

8. Pricing Calculator
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