Chapter 7: Deployment and Value Tracking

In Chapter 6, Building the Digital Twin Prototype, we covered the development of a wind-farm Digital Twin that consists of many wind turbines, each with its own Digital Twin. The Digital Twin application was configured using the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) on the Microsoft Azure Digital Twins (ADT) service. The Visual Studio IDE approach is for programmers who want to build advanced Digital Twin applications on the ADT service. We further demonstrated this using a no-code application development platform aimed at subject-matter experts (SMEs) who want to create Digital Twin applications without coding. We further assessed the testing, technical evaluation, and business validation of our first Digital Twin.

This chapter will focus on the deployment and scaling of the solution in an operational environment. This will help to provide a structured approach, from initial experimentation with a Digital Twin to a target...