Device Lifecycle Management via a Central Identity Service

In an IoT environment, a method of managing devices in the IoT environment, the method comprising:

• as a result of a device being provisioned by a special-purpose solution, storing at a central unified registry a correlation of the device and the given special purpose solution;
• correlating the device to a different special-purpose solution at the unified registry;
• and
• as a result, causing subsequent configuration of the device to be performed by the different special-purpose solution.

A device management service:

• one or more processors;
• one or more computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions that are executable by the one or more processors;
• wherein the device management service is configured to update a central unified registry as a result of devices being provisioned by special-purpose solutions, to store at the central unified registry a correlation of the devices and the given special purpose solution;
• and
• wherein the device management service is configured to move devices to different special-purpose solutions by updating the correlations at the unified registry to cause subsequent configuration of the devices to be performed by the different special-purpose solutions.