How to do it...

To create your first IoT Hub, you will need a Microsoft Azure account. You can easily get registered on Azure.com.

Once you have access, you can follow the steps to create your IoT Hub:

1. Log in to https://portal.azure.com.
2. Once you are logged in, click on the New menu:

1. This blade will show all the Azure services available, we need to expand the Internet of Things and hit the IoT Hub, as shown in the following:

1. This will come up with a new blade, where we need to fill in the details and hit the button to the create IoT Hub:
   • We will give the Name as IoTHubCookeBook
   • Pricing and scale tier should be F1 - Free

1. We will select the data center of our choice from the list of the many available.
2. Partitions: A default value is set when the IoT Hub is created. You can change the number of partitions through this setting:

1. Hit the Create button and Azure will create the free tier IoT Hub for you in a moment: