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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

Creating a Creator resource

A Creator resource allows us to create private indoor map data. Private indoor map data can be used to create an interactive and dynamic indoor map by connecting digital twins to different parts of the map. This allows us to update a certain area of the map with a color based on a temperature sensor. But before we can do that, we need to create a Creator resource in the Azure Maps account. Follow the next steps to do this:

  1. Open the DTBMaps resource.
  2. Select Creator overview in the left menu.
  3. Press the Create button.

    The following screenshot highlights this process:

Figure 13.5 – Opening Creator overview in the Azure Maps account resource

This will open the next step. Execute the following steps to configure the Creator resource:

  1. Enter IndoorMap as the name for the Creator resource.
  2. Enter the value 1 in the Storage Units field. Each storage unit represents 100 MiB. MiB stands for mebibyte and is...