The smart building architecture

This building scenario is a perfect use case for Azure Digital Twins. The building is using a large set of sensors that are connected to different levels, rooms, and desk spaces in the building. Also, sensors from assets across the building are part of the system. Buildings such as the Contoso building contain thousands and thousands of sensors that need to be connected. For that, Azure IoT Hub is the perfect Azure service. It is scalable enough for large sets of sensors to transport their data to several other locations within Azure using Azure Service Bus. Messages are posted on different queues within Azure Service Bus to move the data to an Azure Digital Twins instance and to Azure Machine Learning.

The Azure Digital Twins instance contains a comprehensive model and set of business rules to describe the whole ecosystem of the smart building. It contains a clear model that contains entities to describe each of the floors, rooms, desk spaces, elevators...