Osamu Koizumi / Mbed OS Mbed-to-Azure-IoT-Hub

Connecting to Azure IoT Hub from Mbed OS device.

Mbed-to-Azure-IoT-Hub

Mbed OS example program connecting to Azure IoT Hub with MQTT over TLS. You can authenticate through X.509 certificates or through a symmetric key.

Setting your device identity

Using an X.509 certificate

See Azure IoT Hub from Mbed OS device for more details on how to create a new certificate.

Using symmetric keys

1. In the Azure IoT Hub, click IoT Devices > Add.
2. Enter a Device ID.
3. Under ‘Authentication type’, select Symmetric key.
4. In this application, open MQTT_server_setting.h, and:
   • Set IOTHUB_AUTH_METHOD to IOTHUB_AUTH_SYMMETRIC_KEY.
   • Set DEVICE_ID to your Device ID.
   • Set MQTT_SERVER_HOST_NAME to your IoT Hub hostname (you can find this under the ‘Overview’ tab in the IoT Hub).
   • Set MQTT_SERVER_PASSWORD to an SAS token.
     • You can generate one easily from the ‘Azure IoT Hub Toolkit‘ extension in Visual Studio Code.

If authentication failed, you’ll see ERROR: rc from MQTT connect is 5 in the console.

Memory usage

Azure IoT Hub uses RSA to authenticate, which requires a significant amount of memory. This library has the following heap requirements:

Symmetric keys

While connecting: 36594 bytes
After connecting: 30098 bytes

X.509 certificates

While connecting: 54673 bytes
After connecting: 42865 bytes