Azure Iot Hub Receiver

The iothub data receiver reads data from the Azure Iot Hub with a built-in event hub endpoint. Metadata including application properties and the time that the data has been saved to the iot hub will be included.

Example:

{
    "data_receiver": [
        {
            "connections": [
                {
                    "connection_string": "Endpoint=...;SharedAccessKeyName=...;SharedAccessKey=...;EntityPath=...",
                    "event_hub_name": "event-hub-x",
                    "start_datetime": "2022-11-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "data_receiver_name": "my_iothub_receiver",
            "poll_interval": 10,
            "protocol": "iothub",
            "streams": [
                {
                    "asset": "asset1",
                    "stream_type": "stream_type",
                    "device_id": "device-1"
                },
                {
                    "asset": "asset2",
                    "stream_type": "stream_type",
                    "device_id": "device-2"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Configuration:

Required and optional properties that can be configured for an Iot Hub receiver:

• connections: How to connect to an Iot Hub server and retrieve tags. A connection has the following configurable settings:

  • connection_string: Represents all the needed connection info. The iot hub has a built-in “Event Hub compatible endpoint” which you can copy from.

  • event_hub_name: Name of the event hub

  • start_datetime: Initial datetime for data we want to fetch. Default is earliest datetime possible.

  • max_buffer_size: Max size of buffer for data to be pushed.

  • transport_type Transport type that will be used to communicate with EventHub. Allowed options are amqp (port 5671), amqp_websockets (port 443). Defaults is amqp.

  • consumer_group The consumer group used for iot hub to retrieve data from partitions. Default is ‘$Default’.

• streams: Each input stream has the following configurable settings:

  • asset: Asset identifier

  • stream_type: Type of data stream

  • device_id: Name of the edge device id on the iot hub.

  • payload_field The name of the field to fetch data from. Default field name is “payload.” Useful only for fetching one-layer nested fields.

  • unpack_array If the iothub message or specified ‘payload_field’ in the message is an array, use this option to unpack the array. Defaults to True

• poll_interval: The number of seconds to wait between attempts to push buffered data to the next stage.