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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

By : Alexander Meijers
Book Image

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

Getting sensor messages on Azure Service Bus

In this section, we will set up an Azure Service Bus queue and configure the Azure IoT Central application to export telemetry to this queue. Go to the Azure portal using the following URL: https://portal.azure.com. We start by creating the Azure Service Bus instance. Execute the following steps, as shown in Figure 10.12:

  1. Click on the hamburger and select + Create. Enter service bus in the search field and press Enter.
  2. Click on the Create button in the Service Bus box and select the Service Bus option:

Figure 10.12 – The marketplace view used to find Azure Service Bus

Execute the following steps, as shown in Figure 10.13:

  1. Select your subscription.
  2. Select the DigitalTwinsBook resource group.
  3. Enter the name dtbservicebus for our new Azure Service Bus instance. If the name is already in use, choose another unique name.
  4. Select the location. Choose the location that is closest...