Helin ontology for DTDL
Central device templates are DTDL. Helin turns them into one ontology of your sites, assets, devices and signals, and carries it into Fabric ontology.
Azure IoT Central migration
Leave IoT Central.
Land on Helin Platform.
Helin Platform runs your fleet on Azure IoT Hub and DPS, keeps your device models and data exports, and streams every signal into Microsoft Fabric.
Free · 45 minutes · Helin engineer
The timeline
IoT Central is retiring.
Your devices and data can stay.
In September 2026, Microsoft announced that Azure IoT Central will retire. Existing apps keep working until September 20, 2029. Microsoft recommends moving to Azure IoT Hub and the Device Provisioning Service, with Microsoft Fabric for analytics.
No new IoT Central apps
IoT Central apps retire
How it works
From your devices to Microsoft Fabric.
Helin Platform connects your leaf devices and edge fleet to Azure IoT Hub and DPS, turns your DTDL models into a living ontology, and streams every signal into Microsoft Fabric through Helin data pipelines.
Leaf device
OPC UA
Modbus
MQTT
Helin edgeData Collector X.509
Helin PlatformPowered by Azure
IoT Hub + DPS
IoT Hub + DPS
Microsoft
Fabric
- Eventstream
- Eventhouse
- Dashboards
- Ontology
Helin Platform
Your fleet on Azure IoT Hub, run by Helin.
One managed platform from the machine to Microsoft Fabric, with a dedicated stack for every customer.
- 13+
- industrial protocols at the edge
- X.509
- identity on every device
- 80–95%
- less bandwidth with delta filtering
- 1
- dedicated hub, vault and database per customer
Azure IoT Hub and DPS
A dedicated IoT Hub per customer. Leaf devices send straight to the hub or through the Helin edge, enrolled through DPS with X.509 certificates from Helin’s own PKI.
Helin edge
The Fledge-based Helin Data Collector reads OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT and data from nearby leaf devices, buffers when offline and forwards over mutual TLS.
Helin data pipelines
Route each stream to Fabric Eventhouse, Azure Data Explorer, Kafka, TimescaleDB, MQTT or SFTP, several in parallel.
Remote operations
Change edge configuration from the portal without SSH, and roll out updates over the air.
Observability
Device health in Log Analytics and ready-made Grafana dashboards from day one.
Models
Your DTDL models become the Helin ontology.
What you modelled in Central comes with you. Helin maps every interface, property, command and relationship into one ontology, then carries it into Fabric ontology through Helin data pipelines.
| Device template | Helin ontology | Fabric ontology |
|---|---|---|
| RelationshiplocatedIn | Site | Entity typesite |
| Propertymodel | Asset | Entity typeasset |
| Commandreboot | Device | Commanddevice |
| Telemetrytemperature | Signal | Eventhousetemperature |
Your Central device templates are DTDL models.
Helin reads them into one ontology: sites, assets, devices and signals. Helin data pipelines carry it into Fabric ontology, bound to live data in Eventhouse.
Data
Every export becomes a Helin pipeline.
Each Central data export is rebuilt as an IoT Hub route to the same destination, with Microsoft Fabric alongside. Old and new run side by side until the counts match, then device groups move one at a time.
Central exportHelin pipelineDestination
Telemetry
TelemetryIoT Hub route
Fabric Eventhouse
Properties
PropertiesIoT Hub route
Blob storage
Alerts
AlertsIoT Hub route
Event Hubs
Central 1,200 msgsHelin 1,200 msgsCounts match
Illustrative message-count comparison.
Same destinations, plus Microsoft Fabric. Both run side by side until the counts match. Then device groups move one at a time. Central stays on as the fallback.
How we do it
How the move runs.
- 01
Assess
The free assessment reads your Central app and maps every device, template and export.
- 02
Setup
Your dedicated IoT Hub, DPS, vault and database.
- 03
Rebuild
Exports become Helin pipelines.
- 04
Run side by side
Old and new run in parallel until the message counts match.
- 05
Move device groups
Device groups move one at a time, with Central kept on as the fallback.
Book an assessment call
Your migration plan, and your first edge application.
One 45-minute session with a Helin engineer. You leave with two things:
- A migration outline
- A first use case
Free assessment. No commitment.
Book your migration assessment
FAQ
Questions about your migration
No new IoT Central apps can be created from September 23, 2026. Existing apps keep working until September 20, 2029.
Yes. Helin maps your DTDL interfaces, properties, commands and relationships into an ontology of sites, assets, devices and signals, then carries it into Fabric ontology.
Each export is rebuilt as an IoT Hub route to the same destination, with Microsoft Fabric alongside. Both run in parallel until the message counts match, then device groups move one at a time.
The Helin Data Collector buffers data when offline and forwards it over mutual TLS when connectivity returns.
Nothing. One 45-minute session with a Helin engineer gives you a migration outline and a first use case, with no commitment.