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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 8: Building Models Using Ontologies

This chapter will describe the strategy for modeling your digital twin using ontologies. Ontologies are predefined model sets for a certain industry. These ontologies can help us to create and define a model in order to obtain a faster solution. This chapter will offer a detailed explanation of ontologies, as well as what modeling strategies are available. We will examine in detail some of the industry-standard ontologies, and explain how to upload them into an Azure Digital Twins instance.

In this chapter, we will learn how to decide on the strategy that will work for us. We will also learn how to use some of the standard ontologies to help us get a quick start when building digital twin solutions. The following is a list of the section headings in this chapter:

  • Understanding ontologies
  • Modeling strategy
  • Using industry-standard ontologies
  • Uploading ontology models