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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

Understanding Azure Maps

We focused on getting digital twin events through Event Grid in the previous chapter. Event Grid allows us to send these events to other Azure services. One of those services is Azure Maps. Azure Maps allows us to create location-aware applications based on geospatial information. We can build rich visualizations for any type of device using this Azure service. This service can be enriched with rich datasets, allowing you to build all kinds of different solutions for web, mobile, and even other platforms, solutions that present layers of data on top of a map providing services—for example, improving travel time and avoiding traffic congestion, finding the shortest and quickest available routes, gaining insights into elevations and specific terrains, customer geographical information, weather, and much more.

Azure Maps can be used in conjunction with TomTom, AccuWeather, and Moovit to build solutions that use real-time locations. Azure Maps also supports...