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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

Chapter 3: Digital Twin Definition Model

This chapter will look at the Digital Twin Definition Language in depth. The Digital Twin Definition Language is used to describe the meta models we use to create custom models to instantiate Digital Twins. First, we will explain the different meta models such as interfaces, properties, and components. Then, we will learn about the Digital Twin Model identifier, its available schemas, and its semantic types. Some examples will be used to explain it more thoroughly.

While this chapter is more theoretical than the other chapters, it will pave the way for building Digital Twins using the Azure Digital Twins service. You will use each of these definitions in the upcoming chapters to understand their examples, which allow you to start building Digital Twins using the service.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Digital Twins Definition Language
  • Interface content
  • Schemas
  • Primitive schemas
  • Complex...