Digital Twin of Process without IOT Device

Question

Dear Team,

While I could understand that the Digital Twin concept mostly evolves around IoT, is there a way where Digital Twin can be used to enhance a process that is not connected to IoT?

For example, in Supply Chain management, can a digital twin of a process that is not connected to any of the IoT devices be created.?
If So how do we load the metadata of a process module?

Answer 1

Hello @Srividhya P ,

If you are looking for a standalone app or daemon app running on some server, sending telemetry data, then you can leverage some of the examples as mentioned in the below link, the below example show a simulated device as well.

Azure Digital Twins end-to-end samples

Create IoT solutions that model the real world

Updated:6\03\2021

• Absolutely this can work. Even IoT-based solutions have a connection to LOB systems such as asset management to give the ADT structure meaning. As ADT is API-based, you can easily push data in via functions or LogicApps for example.
• You could use Data Factory to pick up the text based data then push that into ADT, either to define the initial (and changing) model structure, and also the properties of the twins to represent the overall state of the process. Have a look at the supply chain example here:
• solliancenet/microsoft-leveraging-azure-digital-twins-supply-chain: This repo contains the Microsoft Cloud Workshop - Leveraging Azure Digital Twins in a supply chain.

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