Sander van de Velde | MVP

First look at Fabric Map on top of Fabric RTI In the last couple of months, I have written about various ways to work with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence data, both about ingesting, enriching, and representing. Adding Microsoft Fabric…

Working with geospatial data? Check out #Fabric_RTI Map for layered visualizations. Get context data from Lakehouses or real-time data from KQL Databases and represent it in Data layers. Learn about using KQL for location data at
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Have an actual conversation with your agent about your Fabric Eventhouse timeseries data In my previous blog post about the Fabric RTI MCP, I showed how to get started with the MCP and use the GitHub Copilot chat in Visual Studio Code to ‘talk’ to your Real-Time data via th…

Talk to your device, your data just got a voice. Have a real chat with your Microsoft Fabric RTI data using speech-to-text and text-to-speech. No keyboard needed anymore, just voice. sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/h... #mvpbuzz

Azure IoT Operations, building a custom module using the SDK Azure IoT Operations is the Edge platform for Azure IoT, part of Azure IoT vNext (part of the latest Azure IoT stack with other features like the MQTT support for Azure EventGrid Namespaces and Mic…

Are you ready to build Azure IoT Operations custom logic? Did you build Azure IoT Edge modules in the past? Get a head start with the Azure IoT Operations SDK. Learn about what works and what does not work yet sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/a... #mvpbuzz

Getting started with the Model Context Protocol for Microsoft Fabric RTI in GitHub Copilot In the last couple of months, I have written about various ways to work with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence data, both about ingesting, enriching, and representing. Adding Microsoft Fabric…

Using MCP Support for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (RTI), we can query real-time data via Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot. Read the full story at sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/g... #SDG-group #mvpbuzz

What happens if you combine Azure IoT Operations telemetry with Microsoft Fabric commands via a medallion architecture? A full cloud feedback loop, just to turn on some signal tower lights. Read the full story at sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/a... #mvpbuzz

Azure IoT Operations: Local dashboard based on TIG stack Azure IoT Operations is the Edge platform for Azure IoT, part of Azure IoT vNext (part of the stack based on the MQTT support for Azure EventGrid Namespaces and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intellige…

Are you familiar with the TIG stack? Check out how @grafana.bsky.social @influxdb.com database and Telegraf offer local dashboards on the Azure IoT Operations edge. Add remote monitoring dashboards to the local #MQTT broker sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/a... #MVPBuzz

What is the value of IoT telemetry without context? Add weather data to your solution using #fabric #RTI Eventstream and Eventhouse. Add a materialized view and retention time to optimize the flow. Read about this new data source at sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/m... #mvpbuzz

Microsoft Fabric RTI: Azure Event Grid Namespace (MQTT) support Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time intelligence, and business intelligence. It offers a n…

Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence now supports integration with the Azure Event Grid Namespace, both for MQTT and non-MQTT messages. See how IoT Device MQTT messages flow towards Fabric and querying them in an Eventhouse sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/m... #ALTEN_group #mvpbuzz

Microsoft Fabric Eventstream now supports Change Data Capture of Azure Data Explorer Table rows.
With the help of Microsoft Fabric, Azure resources can use this feature too.
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Happy #iotday. Check out all activities at iotday.org Join the presentation from Rob Tiffany at www.youtube.com/watch?v=h13n... about Saving the Earth with AI and the Internet of Things

Microsoft Fabric RTI: Data Agent conversations on real-time telemetry Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution for enterprises that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time intelligence, and business intelligence. It offers a n…

Check out Microsoft Fabric Data Agents (fka AI Skills) to see how Fabric Eventhouse data can be given context and queried via conversations. Use English-language questions to get insights on incoming telemetry. Available from F2 SKU soon. sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/m... #mvpbuzz

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Architecture picture of Microsoft Fabic Real-Time Intelligence items, including Data Pipeline and DataFlow Gen2

Use Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2 to write and read data in an Eventhouse. Use a Data Pipeline for more granular scheduling. The example included is based on the International Space Station's current location. Read the full story sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/m... #mvpbuzz

Azure IoT Operations: Event Hub telemetry and commands Azure IoT Operations is the new Edge platform for Azure IoT, part of Azure IoT vNext (Next to the MQTT support for Azure EventGrid Namespaces and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence). In previo…

Connecting Azure IoT Operations to an Azure Event Hub opens many integration possibilities. How about forwarding telemetry to Azure Data Explorer or sending back commands to the edge device via Azure Functions? It's so easy sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/a... #mvpbuzz

Interested in Azure IoT and what you can do with it? join the Microsoft IoT MVP Summit 2025, collaborating with Microsoft and the AzureIoT Insights community. Register via the QR code and join this free online event on March 1st. CfP still open sessionize.com/microsoft-io... #mvpbuzz

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Hello to all my Candian friends. Interested in Azure IoT Operations? And live demos of what is currently offered? Check out my in-person presentation on March 20 at the Microsoft Reactor in Toronto Canada. Free registration at developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reacto... #ALTEN_group #SDG_group #MVPBuzz

Why throw them away already? What a waste of alcohol 😅 First taste. Especially beer you find in your supermarket can 'expire' for years before it goes sour.

Using Azure Runbooks to pause resources and save money As with every cloud provider, Microsoft also offers pay-as-you-go usage for most Azure Resources. For example, running a Virtual Machine is most expensive when it’s actually running. When you…

Are you interested in pausing Azure resources and saving some money on your subscription costs? Check out how Azure Automation Runbooks help you to pause resources via a scheduler and make use of those monthly 500 free minutes of Job run time.
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Azure IoT Operations now supports a monthly release plan. Check out here to upgrade sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/a... #MVPBuzz

Cycle around the world with Streetview and a Wilderness labs meadow f7 2025 just started so it’s time for good intentions. Having better health is always great so I got this home trainer for Christmas. But being an IoTeer, just using it as-is is not that much fu…

What are your good intentions for 2025? Start using that darn home trainer? Why not add some IoT stuff and cycle around the world using Google Streetview? Add a Wilderness labs meadow f7 and augment your cycle experience. Source code on Github sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/c... #mvpbuzz

Azure IoT Operations: Reading OPC-UA server tags It shows how to connect a custom OPC-UA server to Azure IoT Operations. It provides steps to work around the challenges of setting up username/password secrets and uploading the server certificate …

Azure IoT Operations supports OPC-UA out of the box as Asset endpoints, Assets, and universal namespaces. Connect a custom OPC-UA server app based on the Traeger C# SDK, complete with credentials and certificates. Use K9S to test connectivity
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Some Sunday afternoon fun with the International Space Station location API api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence. Source code available under MIT license at github.com/sandervandev... #mvpbuzz

Azure IoT Operations: Sending commands via EventGrid MQTT Azure IoT Operations is the new Edge platform for Azure IoT, part of Azure IoT vNext (Next to the MQTT support for Azure EventGrid namespaces and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence). In previo…

Azure IoT Operations supports two-way #MQTT communication via data flows by connecting Azure EventGrid Namespace MQTT topics to MQTT topics on the local MQTT broker. Via Bicep scripting magic, commands are delivered from the cloud to the edge #mvpbuzz sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2024/12/09/a...

How about doing a due presentation regarding Azure IoT vNext? Challenge accepted!

Azure IoT Operations: Microsoft Fabric RTI Eventstream dataflow Azure IoT Operations is the new Edge platform for IoT, part of Azure IoT vNext (Next to the MQTT support for Azure EventGrid namespaces and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence). Just one week a…

Check out Azure IoT Operations MQTT broker and dataflows. Learn how industrial Wago energy meter telemetry is forwarded to the cloud, especially the Real-Time Intelligence part of Microsoft Fabric, including extra transformations.
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Architecture of Azure IoT Operations with extra MQTT clients like MQTTX, Mosquitto client, and Nodered because these can connect to the MQTT broker in the edge solution

Azure IoT Operations is ‘the new kid on the block’ and it comes with a local MQTT broker. Learn how to connect with
@nodered.org, #Mosquitto, and the #mqttx tool using X509 certificates for the #kubernetes loadbalancer listener sandervandevelde.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/a... #mvpbuzz