Chapter 5: Setting Up a Digital Twin Prototype
In Chapter 4, Getting Started with Our First Digital Twin, we evaluated the planning phase and framework of the Digital Twin journey. We covered the business outcomes expected from a Digital Twin and the process to get to the desired state. We discussed the technical requirements around creating and managing a Digital Twin in an enterprise.
This chapter will cover the steps needed to build a prototype of a Digital Twin. We will begin by evaluating the public cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) platform considerations, along with the capabilities needed to build a Digital Twin.
We will cover these topics in this chapter:
- Identifying a Digital Twin platform
- Evaluating the public cloud, IoT, and specialty platforms for a Digital Twin
- Configuration and setup
- Data considerations for your Azure Digital Twin
- Solution architecture
Let's start with a discussion on the considerations around a Digital Twin...