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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

The smart building architecture

This building scenario is a perfect use case for Azure Digital Twins. The building is using a large set of sensors that are connected to different levels, rooms, and desk spaces in the building. Also, sensors from assets across the building are part of the system. Buildings such as the Contoso building contain thousands and thousands of sensors that need to be connected. For that, Azure IoT Hub is the perfect Azure service. It is scalable enough for large sets of sensors to transport their data to several other locations within Azure using Azure Service Bus. Messages are posted on different queues within Azure Service Bus to move the data to an Azure Digital Twins instance and to Azure Machine Learning.

The Azure Digital Twins instance contains a comprehensive model and set of business rules to describe the whole ecosystem of the smart building. It contains a clear model that contains entities to describe each of the floors, rooms, desk spaces, elevators...