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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

Querying using code

Querying can be done through a call with the Query API using the .NET SDK. The result, however, can differ from the query request. It is mainly determined by the SELECT specification. Here, you will see several different return scenarios:

Table 2

Since the result can differ per query, it is somewhat difficult to write a method that can be reused. It completely depends on what result you want the query to give back. However, it also allows you to write your own classes, supporting the serialization of results backward and forward.

A result set is always based on the Pageable<> class. It is a collection of values that support iteration over multiple service requests.

We will start by creating a method supporting the SELECT * type of query. Open the DigitalTwinsManager class and add the following code:

public Pageable<BasicDigitalTwin> QueryDigitalTwins(string query)
{
    Pageable<BasicDigitalTwin>...