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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

Azure Digital Twins service

The Azure Digital Twins service is a service from Microsoft that provides a means of storing the definitions, models, and logic around a Digital Twin. Microsoft provides a rich set of APIs and SDKs that enable all kinds of different ways to interact with, store, retrieve, and update definitions, models, and logic.

Azure account

An Azure account is required to create and use the Azure Digital Twins service. If you don't have one available, it is possible to create an Azure account for free today. The Azure account allows you to try out several services for free over a period of 12 months. After the 12-month period, you will require a credit card to continue using paid services. Sign up using the following URL:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

After signing up, you will have an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account that allows you to perform several administrative tasks in the Azure portal. The Azure portal can be found using the following...