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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

Setting up a demo graph

We require an example graph of several digital twins with relationships to understand how we can query digital twins. Therefore, we start by setting up a demo graph to support further steps.

Go to the following GitHub URL: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Azure-Digital-Twins. Then, copy the contents of /SmartBuildingConsoleApp/Models/chapter7 into your project. This contains several model files and an Excel file. The result should be similar to the following figure:

Figure 7.1 – The result after copying the contents of the chapter7 folder

We need to modify several existing models with additional properties in order to build our demo graph. In Chapter 4, Understanding Models, you learned how to manage models. Models can be removed and added via Azure Digital Twins Explorer. Execute the following steps to replace the models:

  1. Open Azure Digital Twins Explorer.
  2. In the model view of Azure Digital Twins Explorer...