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

Creating your first Digital Twin

This final section will help you to create your first Digital Twin using Azure Digital Twins Explorer. The source code of Azure Digital Twins Explorer comes with a rich set of example files that we can use to create the first Digital Twin graph. The example files can be found here: C:\Github\digital-twins-explorer-master\client\examples.

The structure of Azure Digital Twins will be explained in depth in the upcoming chapters. For now, we need to understand that an Azure Digital Twins instance contains one or more Digital Twins. Each Digital Twin, which represents an entity, is based on a model. A model defines the properties of the Digital Twin and the relationships to other Digital Twins. A Digital Twin Graph is a visual representation of Digital Twins and their relationships.

Uploading models

A Digital Twin is always created from a model. Models are defined by JSON files. This means that we need to upload the models first. Perform the following...