Connectors
Once real-time digital twin models have been deployed to the ScaleOut ScaleOut Digital Twins™ service (or on-premises with ScaleOut StreamServer), the next step is to connect data sources such as IoT devices to the execution platform for processing. This is accomplished using connectors to various popular event hubs or by making web service calls to the ScaleOut REST service.
You also can use a connector to integrate a digital twin model with an Azure Digital Twins model for the purpose of retrieving and persisting properties stored in digital twin instances. Please see the topic Azure Digital Twins Integration for a full description of this feature.
You can also persist both real-time and simulation digital twin properties to a SQL Server or SQLite database and optionally retrieve theri properties when digital twins are created.
Finally, you can use connectors to integrate with some of the most popular monitoring services, such as Splunk On-Call, PagerDuty, and Slack. Digital twins will then be able to trigger alerts on those monitoring services if they determine a situation requires human attention.
Note
Connectors that connect to live message hubs are intended only for use with real-time digital twins and not for simulation.
The ScaleOut Digital Twins UI allows connections to be created and configured using these connectors.