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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

Microsoft Visual Studio

Several examples require us to program some code. We will be using Microsoft Visual Studio as the development platform. It is possible to use other applications, such as Visual Studio Code, but they will not be discussed in this book. There are several different versions of Microsoft Visual Studio available and you probably already have something installed. But if not, Microsoft has a Community Edition available. This Community Edition is free for individuals, academic users, and for use in open source projects. Microsoft Visual Studio Community can be found via the following URL: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/free-developer-offers/.

When you open the URL, you will get the option to download the Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition:

Figure 2.9 – The download website for the Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition

The Vs_community_[version].exe file is downloaded into the downloads folder:

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