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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

Setting up a demo sensor using Azure IoT Central

We will start by setting up a demo sensor using the Azure IoT Central application. To do this, we will need to use the Azure portal. Go to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com and log in with your credentials as before. Execute the following steps, as shown in Figure 10.2:

  1. Open the hamburger at the top left and select + Create resource. Enter IoT Central Application in the search box and press Enter.
  2. Click the Create button in the IoT Central application box and select the IoT Central application option:

Figure 10.2 – The marketplace in the Azure portal for selecting the IoT Central application

Next, execute the following steps, as shown in Figure 10.3:

  1. Use dtbdemosensors as the resource name. This will fill in the application URL accordingly. If, for some reason, the name is already taken, try using another unique name.
  2. Select the subscription you have been using throughout...