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Azure Digital Twins can be used to design a digital twin architecture that represents actual IoT devices in a wider cloud solution, and which connects to IoT Hub device twins to send and receive live data.
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> IoT Hub device twins differ from digital twins in the Azure Digital Twins service. While *IoT Hub device twins* are maintained by your IoT hub for each IoT device that you connect to it, *digital twins* can be representations of anything defined by digital models and instantiated within Azure Digital Twins.
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> IoT Hub **device twins** are different from Azure Digital Twins **digital twins**. While *IoT Hub device twins* are maintained by your IoT hub for each IoT device that you connect to it, *digital twins* in Azure Digital Twins can be representations of anything defined by digital models and instantiated within Azure Digital Twins.
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Take advantage of your domain expertise on top of Azure Digital Twins to build customized, connected solutions that:
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* Model any environment, and bring digital twins to life in a scalable and secure manner
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You can think of these model definitions as a specialized vocabulary to describe your business. For a building management solution, for example, you might define models such as Building, Floor, and Elevator. You can then create digital twins based on these models to represent your specific environment.
*Models* are defined in a JSON-like language called [Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL)](https://github.com/Azure/opendigitaltwins-dtdl/blob/master/DTDL/v2/dtdlv2.md), and they describe twins by their state properties, telemetry events, commands, components, and relationships. Here are some other capabilities of models:
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* Models define semantic *relationships* between your entities so that you can connect your twins into a graph that reflects their interactions. You can think of the models as nouns in a description of your world, and the relationships as verbs.
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* You can specialize twins using model *inheritance*. One model can inherit from another.
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* You can design your own model sets from scratch, or get started with a pre-existing set of [DTDL industry ontologies](concepts-ontologies.md) based on common vocabulary for your industry.
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DTDL is also used for data models throughout other Azure IoT services, including [IoT Plug and Play](../iot-develop/overview-iot-plug-and-play.md) and [Time Series Insights](../time-series-insights/overview-what-is-tsi.md). This type of commonality helps you keep your Azure Digital Twins solution connected and compatible with other parts of the Azure ecosystem.
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DTDL is also used for data models throughout other Azure IoT services, including [IoT Plug and Play](../iot-develop/overview-iot-plug-and-play.md) and [Time Series Insights](../time-series-insights/overview-what-is-tsi.md). This compatibility helps you connect your Azure Digital Twins solution with other parts of the Azure ecosystem.
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:::image type="content" source="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/azure-digital-twins-explorer-portal-access.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Overview page for an Azure Digital Twins instance. There's a highlight around the Open Azure Digital Twins Explorer (preview) button." lightbox="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/azure-digital-twins-explorer-portal-access.png":::
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This will open Azure Digital Twins Explorer in a new tab. It may already be connected to your instance, or you may see the following screen requesting an Azure Digital Twins URL.
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This will open Azure Digital Twins Explorer in a new tab. If this is your first time using the Explorer, you'll see a welcome modal summarizing its key features.
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:::image type="content" source="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/azure-digital-twins-explorer-no-environment.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Azure Digital Twins Explorer. The Azure Digital Twins URL modal displays an empty editable box for the Azure Digital Twins URL." lightbox="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/azure-digital-twins-explorer-no-environment.png":::
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If you see this modal, enter *https://* into the box, followed by the host name of your instance. These values together make up the instance URL. Select **Save** to connect to the instance.
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>You can find the host name of your instance in its **Overview** page in the portal.
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> :::image type="content" source="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/portal-host-name.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the Azure portal showing the Overview page for an Azure Digital Twins instance. There's a highlight around the Host name value." lightbox="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/portal-host-name.png":::
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>If Azure Digital Twins Explorer can't automatically connect to your instance, you'll see the following screen asking you to specify an Azure Digital Twins URL.
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>:::image type="content" source="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/azure-digital-twins-explorer-no-environment.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Azure Digital Twins Explorer. The Azure Digital Twins URL modal displays an empty editable box for the Azure Digital Twins URL." lightbox="../articles/digital-twins/media/includes/azure-digital-twins-explorer-no-environment.png":::
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>If you see this, enter *https://* into the box, followed by the host name of your instance (this can be found back on the instance's **Overview** page in the portal). These values together make up the instance URL. Select **Save** to connect to your instance.
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