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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins
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Hands-On Azure Digital Twins

by Alexander Meijers
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
8h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1: About Digital Twins

This chapter will explore the concept of a Digital Twin. A Digital Twin is a virtual representation of the real world combined with real-world data. Digital Twins can be used for a variety of scenarios. Digital Twins can be used to visualize insights or to simulate real-life situations by using a virtual representation and real-life sensory data. Learning about Digital Twins allows you to build solutions around these scenarios.

In this chapter, we'll go through several scenarios to understand Digital Twin implementations. We'll look at Microsoft's Azure Digital Twins service and how it allows us to model a Digital Twin. We'll walk through the layout of the service and how it is incorporated into the model of a ...

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ISBN: 9781801071383