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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

You're reading from   Hands-On Azure Digital Twins A practical guide to building distributed IoT solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071383
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexander Meijers Alexander Meijers
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Azure Digital Twin Essentials
2. Chapter 1: About Digital Twins FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Requirements and Installation 4. Section 2: Getting Started with Azure Digital Twins
5. Chapter 3: Digital Twin Definition Model 6. Chapter 4: Understanding Models 7. Chapter 5: Model Elements 8. Chapter 6: Creating Relationships between Azure Digital Twin Models 9. Chapter 7: Querying Digital Twins 10. Chapter 8: Building Models Using Ontologies 11. Section 3: Digital Twins Advanced Techniques
12. Chapter 9: APIs and SDKs 13. Chapter 10: Building a Digital Twin Pipeline 14. Chapter 11: Updating the Model 15. Chapter 12: Event Routing 16. Chapter 13: Setting up Azure Maps 17. Chapter 14: Integrating Azure Maps 18. Chapter 15: Monitoring and Troubleshooting 19. Section 4: Digital Twin Implementations in Real-world Scenarios
20. Chapter 16: Facility of the Future 21. Chapter 17: Creating Digital Twins for Smart Building 22. Chapter 18: Simulations Using a Digital Twin 23. Assessments 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 3: Digital Twin Definition Model

This chapter will look at the Digital Twin Definition Language in depth. The Digital Twin Definition Language is used to describe the meta models we use to create custom models to instantiate Digital Twins. First, we will explain the different meta models such as interfaces, properties, and components. Then, we will learn about the Digital Twin Model identifier, its available schemas, and its semantic types. Some examples will be used to explain it more thoroughly.

While this chapter is more theoretical than the other chapters, it will pave the way for building Digital Twins using the Azure Digital Twins service. You will use each of these definitions in the upcoming chapters to understand their examples, which allow you to start building Digital Twins using the service.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Digital Twins Definition Language
  • Interface content
  • Schemas
  • Primitive schemas
  • Complex...
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