Microsoft brings enterprise location-based services to Azure with help from TomTom

Microsoft has announced Azure Location Based Services, an effort to integrate location capabilities directly into Azure for enterprise users. The addition of location services will allow Azure customers to deeply take advantage of geographical data to do things like runway IoT assets, fleet management, and much more than.

"Every bit IoT continues to transform businesses by providing breakthrough insights and capabilities for connected assets, location is becoming an of import aspect to consider," said Sam George, managing director, Microsoft Azure IoT. "For example, a department of transportation can now use Azure Location Based Services to clarify and meliorate traffic in congested cities, freight companies can provide improved fleet management and logistics, and all businesses can track the location of assets and be notified when their location changes."

As part of a partnership that began in late 2022, Microsoft is besides borer mapping company TomTom to supply the location data used by Azure Location Based Services, bolstering Microsoft'due south location and mapping capabilities and, in turn, the data available to Azure customers realying on Microsoft's APIs. Esri, another mapping and geographic information systems company that partnered with Microsoft at the same time as TomTom, volition also provide business customers with "a complete set of location data management, digital mapping and geographic analytics, provided through Esri's ArcGIS suite and developer APIs," Microsoft says.

According to Microsoft, several companies have already been testing Azure Location Based Services in private preview. Fathym, an IoT solutions company, for example, has used the service to help government agencies to visualize road conditions atmospheric condition on a map and adjust routes appropriately.

Azure Location Based Services is available now in public preview. The service is expected to launch globally in 2022 in thirty languages.

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