Sander van de Velde

Sander van de Velde

Principal IoT Architect @ SDG Group; dual Microsoft MVP on Azure IoT and Real-Time Intelligence

Helmond, The Netherlands

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I’ve been presented with the 2017 – 2026 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for my Azure IoT community work.

In 2024, I also received a second MVP award for Real-Time Intelligence.

In my daily work, I'm an IoT solution architect for SDG Group (an ALTEN company) in the Netherlands, the consulting and engineering organization for the high-tech sector, and I specialize in Microsoft Azure IoT together with Microsoft Fabric.

I'm involved with many aspects of the Azure IoT Platform and Azure and IoT in general.

I work on IoT innovations where I add IoT value by working together with clients, partners, and the community.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Manufacturing & Industrial Materials
  • Transports & Logistics

Topics

  • internet of things
  • IoT
  • Iot Edge
  • IIOT
  • Azure IoT
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Services
  • Microsoft (Azure) IoT
  • Azure Digital Twins
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • Fabric RTI
  • Fabric Real-Time Analytics
  • Eventhouse
  • Eventstream

Build your ontology in a no-code way using Microsoft Fabric Ontology

Fabric Ontology creates digital representations of real-world environments to optimize physical operations using data. It structures your chaotic domain into entity types, relationships, properties, and rules and constraints.

It is the new member of Microsoft Fabric IQ and merges well with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence. Fabric Ontology offers a no-code, low-code experience for collecting, managing, and displaying data in a multidimensional structure, even when it arrives in real time.

In this session, we will go hands-on with the Fabric Ontology. Attendees learn how an ontology is created, how it is enriched with real-time data from, for example, IoT devices, and how this ontology leads to new insights via entities and relationships. From there, we check out usage in an agentic way.

Unlocking Real-Time Insights: Integrating Azure IoT Operations with Microsoft Fabric

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the seamless integration of Azure IoT Operations with Microsoft Fabric to unlock real-time intelligence.

Azure IoT Operations is the latest solution for highly available Edge computing within the ever-expanding Azure IoT ecosystem. It leverages cutting-edge standards like MQTT and OPC-UA, offering a robust suite of integration solutions. This enables efficient telemetry transmission to the Fabric Eventstream and even supports receiving commands.

In this session, after introducing Azure IoT Operations, we dive into the integration with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence. This part of Microsoft Fabric's SaaS Data platform makes it easy to ingest Real-Time data using an intuitive portal experience.

While experiencing hands-on demonstrations using actual IoT devices, learn how Azure IoT Operations is configured to collect device messages and integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Fabric's real-time intelligence features.

Once the telemetry is available in the Fabric Eventhouse, Real-Time insights and actions are demonstrated based on a medallion architecture and conversational AI.

Attendees will gain valuable insights and practical knowledge on leveraging powerful low-code Fabric features to enhance IoT operations and real-time intelligence capabilities.

Visualizing geofences and enforcing them using geospatial KQL in Microsoft Fabric Map

All kinds of vehicles (ships, planes, cars, buses, etc.) have their location emitted nowadays. Visualizing those Geospatial data points on maps seems trivial if you only work with the latitude and longitude values on a map chart. Once you try to visualize if vehicles enter or exit a (forbidden) area, called a geofence, this is not trivial anymore.

Using the power of Microsoft Fabric Map and KQL databases, we are in full control of both visualizing shapes like polygons, circles, and more on your maps. You can also calculate the whereabouts of those vehicles using geospatial functions to have a full grasp of where vehicles are, should be, and should not be.

Attendees learn about representing locations and shapes in Microsoft Fabric Map. They experience how to enforce geofencing based on geospatial data using the power of the KQL query language. Along the way, Microsoft Fabric RTI is introduced for ingesting and storing GPS data coming from GPS trackers.

This presentation is supported by several live demos using Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence for ingesting and storing, transforming, and representing real-time data.

This presentation is supported by several live demos using Microsoft Fabric and real-time data. We work with (recorded) live tracking data.

Together in Electric Dreams: Microsoft Fabric excellerates Azure IoT Operations

In the 1980s synth-pop hit "Together in Electric Dreams," the lyrics tell of a connection that transcends physical distance through a shared vision. Today’s industrial landscape faces a similar challenge: Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) have long been "miles apart," separated by legacy protocols and data silos. This presentation demonstrates how Microsoft’s ecosystem finally brings these worlds into perfect sync.
The journey begins at the edge with Azure IoT Operations. By leveraging Azure Arc-enabled services, we synchronise chaotic data from industrial protocols into a clean, unified stream. This creates the "Electric Dream", a digital heartbeat of the factory that is consistent, scalable, and cloud-ready.
Once the data flows, we transition to Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence (RTI). If IoT Operations is the nervous system, Fabric RTI is the brain. We explore how the Real-Time Hub captures high-frequency events using KQL (Kusto Query Language), spotting anomalies (e.g., motor vibrations) before they lead to expensive unplanned downtime.
Finally, Microsoft Fabric Apps is introduced as a pro-code layer for visualizations and taking action. This way, we can go beyond what Fabric offers for end users and citizen developers.
By the end of this session, attendees will see that through edge connectivity, IT and OT will "always be together" in a seamless, electric dream of operational excellence.
This session is for data professionals, architects, and Fabric enthusiasts who want to see how Real-Time Intelligence becomes truly powerful when streaming analytics, vibe coding, and business context come together.

This talk demonstrates real hardware and cloud working together.
Please provide a cabled internet connection.

Sander van de Velde

Principal IoT Architect @ SDG Group; dual Microsoft MVP on Azure IoT and Real-Time Intelligence

Helmond, The Netherlands

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