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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

Visualizing the model

Microsoft offers an easy way of visualizing the indoor map model. We have the Azure Maps Indoor module available as part of the Azure Maps software development kit (SDK). This module allows us to render an indoor map that was created with the Azure Maps Creator service.

It is possible to use this module in two ways. We can download the Azure Maps Indoor module to disk, or we can use the Azure Content Delivery Network (Azure CDN) version of the Azure Maps Indoor module.

In this example, we will be using the Azure CDN version. We can easily reference the JavaScript and style sheet files needed to render the model. Microsoft has the following web page that describes how to set this up: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-maps/how-to-use-indoor-module#embed-the-indoor-maps-module. It also contains the code we will be using to render the model. Execute the following steps to set up a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) file for rendering the model:

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