The ThingWorx Azure IoT Hub Connector enables communication between devices that communicate with an Azure IoT Hub and with the Azure IoT Edge service. The IoT Edge is an IoT Service that three components, IoT Edge modules, the IoT Edge runtime, and the IoT Edge cloud interface. For details, refer to the Microsoft Azure IoT Edge documentation.

If you are a PTC ThingWorx Cloud Services customer, you can skip much of the installation, configuration, and deployment information in this help center. However, you are responsible for connecting your edge devices to the Azure IoT Hub. This is true for both customers using the ThingWorx Azure Industrial IoT OPC UA integration and customers using the Connector with their IoT Edge devices. To connect an IoT Edge device to the IoT Hub, a "twin" must be created on the IoT Hub. PTC Cloud Services cannot provide you access to the Azure Portal. Alternatives to the Azure Portal are Visual Studio Code with its Azure IoT Edge Extension and Azure PowerShell.

The ThingWorx Azure IoT Hub Connector integrates edge devices that are running applications developed using a Microsoft Azure IoT SDK with the ThingWorx Platform. The following diagram illustrates the integration. In particular, it shows how data flows in from one or more Azure IoT Edge devices, through Microsoft Azure IoT Hub to the ThingWorx Azure IoT Hub Connector. The Azure IoT Hub Connector translates messages from Azure IoT devices to messages that the ThingWorx Platform can understand. The Connector then forwards the messages to the ThingWorx Platform. The following diagram shows an example of an Azure IoT Hub integration for a standalone ThingWorx Platform. Notice that, except for the edge devices, the components of this integration can exist in the Azure Cloud:

Continue to ThingWorx Azure IoT Hub Connector in a ThingWorx High Availability Cluster to learn about operating the Azure IoT Hub Connector in a ThingWorx High Availability Clustering environment.

End users who have access to ThingWorx Composer or applications written using ThingWorx Mashup Builder and Javascript can work with Azure IoT Edge devices and modules and with Azure IoT Devices in Composer, as indicated in the following table The table provides links to activities that end users may want to perform on the assets for which they are responsible and to which they have permissions in ThingWorx.