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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

Building a map

Indoor maps are based on the DWG format. DWG is a binary file format that contains two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) designs with additional metadata. DWG is a native format that is accepted by many CAD applications such as AutoCAD. CAD drawings are vector-based.

The Creator service expects a drawing package. We will be using one of the sample packages of Microsoft. Download the following package: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/am-creator-indoor-data-examples/blob/master/Sample%20-%20Contoso%20Drawing%20Package.zip.

Unzip the package to a temporary folder and view the contents to have an idea of its structure.

A drawing package consists of one or more DWG files and a manifest file. In the case of an indoor map, each of the DWG files represents a floor of the building. The manifest file contains information that describes the building, its floors, and other metadata—for example, the physical location of the...