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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

Solution design and architecture

In this section, we will be going into several solution designs using examples based on the categories mentioned in the previous section.

Work preparation

We have a government organization, Contoso Safety and Health, focusing on safety and health during large events. The organization needs to be sure to position safety and health posts accordingly to support different types of safety challenges during the event.

The organization is using a simulated model that visualizes the location of the event. Information from different sources is pulled in and layered on top of the visualized location to give the organization a better understanding of what they are against. Historical crowd data of the event is being used to get a better understanding of how the crowd moves during the day. All that information together will allow them to pinpoint the best locations during the day where safety and health posts need to be installed. While in normal situations...