Intelligent Vending Machines: 1-Day Workshop

This instructor-led workshop details how to implement an IoT solution for intelligent vending machines leveraging facial feature recognition and Azure Machine Learning to drive on-demand pricing, enable real-time analytics, and cloud to device messaging flows.

What You’ll Learn

• How to build cloud-based machine learning applications and real-time analytics with SQL Database inmemory and columnar indexing
• Implementing distributed machine learning with R Server for HDInsight & MS R Server Operationalization
• Facial image processing
• Wrangling Data in Power BI Desktop

Prerequisites

• Workshop content presumes 300-level of architectural expertise of infrastructure and solutions design.
• We recommend taking a Microsoft Azure Essentials course before enrolling in this workshop

Workshop Outline

Module 1: Whiteboard Design – Intelligent Vending Machines

• Review the customer case study
• Call to action: Design a proof of concept solution
• Call to action: Present the solution

Module 2: Hackathon – Intelligent Vending Machines

• Before the hackathon
• Environment setup
• IoT Hub provisioning
• Completing the Smart Meter Simulator
• Hot path data processing with Stream Analytics
• Cold path data processing with HDInsight Spark
• Reporting device outages with IoT Hub Operations

Monitoring

• Cleanup