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Build and design simple to complex digital twins solutions

Create end-to-end solutions with Azure Digital Twins

Integrate the Azure Digital Twins service with other Azure services to provide even richer solutions

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Azure developers, Azure architects, and anyone who wants to learn more about how to implement IoT solutions using Azure Digital Twins and additional Azure services. Prior experience using the Azure Portal and a clear understanding of building applications using .NET will be helpful.

What you will learn

Understand the concept and architecture of Azure Digital Twins

Get to grips with installing and configuring the service and required tools

Understand the Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) and digital twin models

Explore the APIs and SDKs available to access the Azure Digital Twins services

Monitor, troubleshoot, and secure digital twins

Discover how to build, design, and integrate applications with various Azure services

Explore real-life scenarios with Azure Digital Twins

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James Apr 04, 2022

I've been working with Digital Twins for almost 10 years and as simple as the concept is, ontologies get in the way of implementations. The big deal is how can you implement, how does one actually create a digital twin and deploy it to your users.Let's be honest though, the Azure Digital Twin service/product is complex and requires a ton of work. It isn't an upload CAD drawing and connect some data sources. In this case Meijers does a great job of walking through how to get started. But it isn't for beginners, you'll need to have previous experience with Azure Cloud services, Microsoft Visual Studio and the ability to debug code. But if you've got even a general understand of this, the walk throughs are detailed enough to learn the idiosyncrasies of the Azure Digital Twin process.The book does take you through the process of understanding what an Azure Digital Twin model is, how to upload them, developing relationships between models and how to query them. After you have an understanding on this, Meijers dives into connecting the model to services, updating the Azure Digital Twin models and then connecting to Microsoft Azure Maps to view the model on maps. Finally he showcases how these Digital Twins can become smart buildings which is the hopeful outcome of doing all the work.The book has a lot of code examples and ability to download it all from a Github repository. Knowledge of JSON and JavaScript, Python and .NET or Java is probably required. BUT, even if you don't know how to code, this book is a good introduction to Azure Digital Twins. While there are pages of code examples, Meijers does a good job of explaining the how and why you would use Azure Digital Twins. If you're interesting in how you can use a hosted Digital Twin service that is managed by a cloud service, this is a great resource.I felt like I knew Azure Digital Twins before reading this book, but it taught me a lot about how and why Microsoft did what they did with the service. Many aspects that caused me to scratch my head became clearer to me and I felt like this book gave me additional background that I didn't have before. I debated between 4 and 5 star rating, mostly because this book requires an undemanding of programming but after finishing it I felt like Meijers' ability to describe the process outside of code makes the book well worth it to anyone who wants to understand the concept and architecture of Azure Digital Twins.Thoroughly enjoyed the book.

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Jack Raifer Mar 04, 2022

Having a digital representation of reality is becoming more common and more important to solve today’s problems. Alexander Meijers does a great job at explaining the Digital Twins technology and takes you step by step through a journey of building them using the Azure Digital Twins Architecture. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to work on or simply learn more about Digital Twins.

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Savitha Manojna Mar 03, 2022

Working a Solutions architect i have been part of teams implementing Digital Twin projects for a range of customers mainly from Healthcare and Manufacturing,though this is an evolving space with no single native platform offering all the tools and solutions needed by the use case this book by Alexander makes an honest attempt by bringing an approach to the madness of implementing a Digital twin on Microsoft Azure platform.Some of the features which enhnace the quality of the conetent are:a) Code based approach to building a digital Twin using Azure services and VS Code.b) Building Models which are the essential part of any Digital twin , teh models are the ones which decide if the implementaion is a success or failure.c) Detailed explanation of the azure services, concepts through diagrams and charts.d) Confidence building measures provided through actual blocks of code in the book and online supporting content.And many more practical industry based examples ..This book is a must for all Product leaders,Architects,Leads & developers who are working on Digital Twin projects. Could portentially save a lot of time and help avoid pitfalls.

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Shyam Apr 11, 2022

I would recommend this book on Azure Digital Twins to Software Development Managers and Senior Developers. Would also recommend reading "Building Industrial Digital Twins" by same publisher Packt for Techno-Functional knowledge of Digital Twins, and then read this book for complete hands-on skills.

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David G Apr 14, 2022

This book provides a practical guide for working with Digital Twins for a virtual representation of the real world. Having a virtual representation allows you to provide data to the virtual representation to helps visualize insights or to simulate real-life situations to gain insight, for collaboration or optimize operations and costs. It is designed around building distributed IoT solutions targeted at Azure developers, solutions architects to learn about how to implement IoT solutions using Azure Digital Twins and additional Azure services.The book has sections for starting to build and define the model using features of the service: structured language to define model, model templates, adding telemetry and relationships with other digital twins, and ultimately querying to obtain data from the models and their relationships. Along with more advanced features using APIs and SDKs for management and control of digital twins, building a pipeline to converge data from different Azure services. The book will also provide examples for event routing to other services and using Azure Maps to create location-aware application based on geospatial information. And then finally providing scenarios of various examples to include future facilities and smart buildings as well as simulation in order to improve you modeling process and achieve better results.

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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins: A practical guide to building distributed IoT solutions

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