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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

Understanding relationships

A relationship is always between two Digital Twins called the source digital twin and the target digital twin. We can use descriptive language to describe the relationship between both Digital Twins. This makes it easier to understand what the relationship is about and in which direction the relationship has been set up. These descriptive names will also help us quickly identify the relationship when we use the Azure Digital Twins Explorer tool.

What is descriptive language and what does it look like? The following table contains several examples of descriptive language:

Table 1

The descriptive name describes the relationship that the source digital twin has with the target digital twin, or vice versa. This will change the descriptive text:

Table 2

It does not always make sense if you change the direction of the relationship. To make the right choice for a relationship, its direction, and description, we can take...

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