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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

Creating an Azure function

An Azure function can be created by using Visual Studio. It is like creating a .NET web application that runs in the cloud based on a trigger. Start Visual Studio. Select Create a new project, as shown in Figure 11.5:

Figure 11.5 – Getting started with Visual Studio 2019

Execute the following steps, as shown in Figure 11.6:

  1. Enter Azure Function in the search field.
  2. Select the Azure Functions template.
  3. Click on the Next button:

Figure 11.6 – Select Azure Functions as the template for our project

Execute the following steps, as shown in Figure 11.7:

  1. Enter the project name SmartBuildingSensorUpdater.
  2. Set the location to c:\Github.
  3. Click on the Create button:

Figure 11.7 – Enter the project and location name for our project

Execute the following steps, as shown in Figure 11.8:

  1. Select Service Bus Queue trigger.
  2. Select...