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

Node.js

Node.js is an open source JavaScript runtime environment that allows us to execute JavaScript code outside a web browser. It is mostly used for creating event-driven servers to create websites and API services and operates on a single-thread architecture. It allows you to create a local web server with ease. We will be using Node.js to create the local web server in which Azure Digital Twins Explorer will run:

Figure 2.16 – The download location of Node.js

We begin by installing Node.js. Perform the following steps:

Open a web browser and go to the following URL: https://nodejs.org/en/download. This will open a download page for Node.js.
Select the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the Windows Installer file depending on the Windows 10 operating system that is installed.

This will download the MSI file into the downloads folder. Run the installer. Select the following installation path: C:\Program Files\nodejs.

We need to make...