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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 the scenario

Over the past year, something I have been involved with at work is a concept called the facility of the future. This concept refers to the aim of combining several existing sources of information and business applications within an organization to build rich solutions that support firstline workers and business processes. Today's organizations are facing challenges. While they often have systems in place to collect sensor data, use customer relationship management systems to support business processes, and use several applications on both desktop and mobile to support their firstline workers, they frequently have no idea how to bring these things together. And that is what the facility of the future is all about, as you can see in Figure 16.1:

Figure 16.1 – The facility of the future concept

The facility of the future is all about being connected. It is about the connected vehicle, connected worker, connected equipment...