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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 is a professional who inspires, motivates, and supports others and helps them to innovate. His goal is to help organizations achieve more by creating, improving, and working smarter, with the aim of shortening business processes and improving the environment for employees.rnAs global XR technology lead and Microsoft Windows MVP for mixed reality, working for Avanade, he understands business issues and translates them into logical solutions using technology. Additionally, he supports companies in applying emerging experiences during their digital transition journey.rnHe works with technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, in combination with cloud services including mixed reality services, Azure Digital Twins, and IoT, from the Microsoft Azure platform, Office 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365.rnHis primary focus is manufacturing, utilities, and the engineering and construction sector. However, he certainly does not stay away from other sectors.rnHe engages in speaking, writing books, blogging, and is an organizer of local and global events such as the Mixed Reality User Group in the Netherlands, and Global XR Talks and the Global XR Conference, both part of the GlobalXR.Community.rnIn the last few months, he has designed and implemented a solution. Data is collected from IoT and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service. An Azure Digital Twins service is built up dynamically by using Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Logic Apps. A 3D visual is generated by using Microsoft HoloLens 2 as an augmentation device.rnSince January 2018, he has been a Windows Development MVP for the Mixed Reality category.
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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 2: Requirements and Installation

In this chapter, we will go over all the requirements to get up and running with the Azure Digital Twins service. We will explain the prerequisites of Azure Digital Twins, as well as how to install and configure the service. We will also explain how to install and use some of the tools that will help to build Digital Twins solutions with this service. After this chapter, you will have all the tools available to start building.

In the upcoming chapters, you will learn and understand how to build Digital Twins solutions using Azure Digital Twins. But before you can start, we need to have the service up and running and some additional tools to support you.

We will go through the following topics:

  • Azure Digital Twins service
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • The Windows Azure CLI with Windows PowerShell
  • Node.js
  • Azure Digital Twins Explorer
  • Creating your first Digital Twin
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Alexander Meijers is a professional who inspires, motivates, and supports others and helps them to innovate. His goal is to help organizations achieve more by creating, improving, and working smarter, with the aim of shortening business processes and improving the environment for employees. As global XR technology lead and Microsoft Windows MVP for mixed reality, working for Avanade, he understands business issues and translates them into logical solutions using technology. Additionally, he supports companies in applying emerging experiences during their digital transition journey. He works with technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, in combination with cloud services including mixed reality services, Azure Digital Twins, and IoT, from the Microsoft Azure platform, Office 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365. His primary focus is manufacturing, utilities, and the engineering and construction sector. However, he certainly does not stay away from other sectors. He engages in speaking, writing books, blogging, and is an organizer of local and global events such as the Mixed Reality User Group in the Netherlands, and Global XR Talks and the Global XR Conference, both part of the GlobalXR.Community. In the last few months, he has designed and implemented a solution. Data is collected from IoT and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service. An Azure Digital Twins service is built up dynamically by using Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Logic Apps. A 3D visual is generated by using Microsoft HoloLens 2 as an augmentation device. Since January 2018, he has been a Windows Development MVP for the Mixed Reality category.
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