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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

Creating an application

This chapter contains several scripts for managing Models and Digital Twins. We will be using a .NET Console application to test these scripts against the Azure Digital Twins instance.

Start Visual Studio and select the Create a new project option, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.1 – Opening Visual Studio

We need to use the Console App (.NET Core) template here, which allows us to create a .NET Console application. If the template is not visible as one of the default selections, use the search box to find it. Execute the following steps, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Select the Console App (.NET Core) template.
  2. Press the Next button:

Figure 4.2 – Creating a new project in Visual Studio

Next, as shown in the following screenshot, we need to configure our new project. Execute the following steps:

  1. Enter SmartBuildingConsoleApp for the name.
  2. Enter...