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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

By : Alexander Meijers
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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

By: Alexander Meijers

Overview of this book

In today’s world, clients are using more and more IoT sensors to monitor their business processes and assets. Think about collecting information such as pressure in an engine, the temperature, or a light switch being turned on or off in a room. The data collected can be used to create smart solutions for predicting future trends, creating simulations, and drawing insights using visualizations. This makes it beneficial for organizations to make digital twins, which are digital replicas of the real environment, to support these smart solutions. This book will help you understand the concept of digital twins and how it can be implemented using an Azure service called Azure Digital Twins. Starting with the requirements and installation of the Azure Digital Twins service, the book will explain the definition language used for modeling digital twins. From there, you'll go through each step of building digital twins using Azure Digital Twins and learn about the different SDKs and APIs and how to use them with several Azure services. Finally, you'll learn how digital twins can be used in practice with the help of several real-world scenarios. By the end of this book, you'll be confident in building and designing digital twins and integrating them with various Azure services.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Azure Digital Twin Essentials
4
Section 2: Getting Started with Azure Digital Twins
11
Section 3: Digital Twins Advanced Techniques
19
Section 4: Digital Twin Implementations in Real-world Scenarios

Subscribing to event messages

The Event Grid Topic service is great for transporting messages to other services. Unfortunately, it is not possible to view the messages through the Azure portal. But there is a trick to view the messages and, at the same time, show how we can transport the messages to another service. The queue of an Azure Service Bus can be viewed using the Service Bus Explorer.

We will start by creating a new queue in our existing Azure Service Bus. Execute the following steps, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Open our existing Azure Service Bus; that is, dtbservicebus.
  2. Select the Queues option from the left menu.
  3. Press the + Queue button.
  4. Enter monitoringeventgridmessages for Name.
  5. Tick the Enable dead lettering on message expiration checkbox.
  6. Press the Create button to create the queue:

Figure 12.9 – Creating a queue in Azure Service Bus

The newly created queue is visible in the overview of...