IT major Microsoft has released a new preview of Azure Digital Twins with a set of new features. Azure Digital Twins is a Cloud-based analytics service for industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, it said in an announcement.
The new preview of Azure Digital Twins, said Microsoft, allows you to create custom models of any connected environment. Using the rich and flexible Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL), based on the JSON-LD standard, you can configure your Azure Digital Twins service to tailor to the specific needs of your use case.
Real-world environments are created from connected twins. Each twin is modeled using properties, telemetry events, components, and relationships that define how twins can be connected into rich knowledge graphs. DTDL is also used for models throughout other Azure IoT services, including IoT Plug and Play and Azure Time Series Insights.
Microsoft said DTDL was the glue that kept your Azure Digital Twins solution connected and compatible with other parts of the Azure ecosystem.
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