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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

Chapter 2: Requirements and Installation

In this chapter, we will go over all the requirements to get up and running with the Azure Digital Twins service. We will explain the prerequisites of Azure Digital Twins, as well as how to install and configure the service. We will also explain how to install and use some of the tools that will help to build Digital Twins solutions with this service. After this chapter, you will have all the tools available to start building.

In the upcoming chapters, you will learn and understand how to build Digital Twins solutions using Azure Digital Twins. But before you can start, we need to have the service up and running and some additional tools to support you.

We will go through the following topics:

  • Azure Digital Twins service
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • The Windows Azure CLI with Windows PowerShell
  • Node.js
  • Azure Digital Twins Explorer
  • Creating your first Digital Twin