IoT on PMI-Switzerland chapter newsletter

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Professionals are interested in the growing business of the IoT. This month, PMI-Switzerland has published my article on this subject. You can read more here.

MXCHIP IoT DevKit

If you want to experiment IoT and make your first application, you may want to try MXCHIP and some examples provided by Microsoft through its cloud platform Azure.  

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