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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071383

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Industrial Internet of Things

Author (1):

Alexander Meijers

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

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

Azure Digital Twins service

The Azure Digital Twins service is a service from Microsoft that provides a means of storing the definitions, models, and logic around a Digital Twin. Microsoft provides a rich set of APIs and SDKs that enable all kinds of different ways to interact with, store, retrieve, and update definitions, models, and logic.

Azure account

An Azure account is required to create and use the Azure Digital Twins service. If you don't have one available, it is possible to create an Azure account for free today. The Azure account allows you to try out several services for free over a period of 12 months. After the 12-month period, you will require a credit card to continue using paid services. Sign up using the following URL:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

After signing up, you will have an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account that allows you to perform several administrative tasks in the Azure portal. The Azure portal can be found using the following...