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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

Summary

We have learned in this chapter to understand the differences between APIs and SDKs. We have learned that the underlying REST API for Azure Digital Twins is divided into a control plane and a data plane. The chapter has demonstrated several examples of using the Azure CLI, which allows us to provision and control Azure Digital Twins instances via PowerShell. Finally, we have learned how to monitor the API requests and what the impact is of the service limits. As a reader, you now have the skills to use the REST API and the Azure CLI to access Azure Digital Twins.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to set up a pipeline in Microsoft Azure using several Azure services to get data from a demo sensor onto an Azure Service Bus namespace.