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Example usage: The data in your *Azure Digital Twins* model can be routed to downstream Azure services for more analytics or storage.
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### Azure Digital Twins instance
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A single instance of the [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins) service in a customer's subscription. While Azure [Digital Twins](#digital-twin) refers to the Azure service as a whole, your Azure Digital Twins *instance* is your individual Azure Digital Twins resource.
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A single instance of the [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins) service in a customer's subscription. While [Azure Digital Twins](#digital-twin) refers to the Azure service as a whole, your Azure Digital Twins *instance* is your individual Azure Digital Twins resource.
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Casing rules: Always capitalize the service name.
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First and subsequent mentions: Always spell out in full as *Azure Digital Twins instance*.
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### Azure IoT
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### Configuration
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### Device provisioning
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Abbreviation: DTDL
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### Digital twin
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### Digital twin change events
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### Downstream service
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A relative term describing services that receive data from the current context. For example, in the context of [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), Time Series Insights is a downstream service if you set up your data to flow from Azure [Digital Twins](#digital-twin) into Time Series Insights.
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A relative term describing services that receive data from the current context. For example, in the context of [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), Time Series Insights is a downstream service if you set up your data to flow from [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins) into Time Series Insights.
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## E
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The process of sending events and their data from one [device](#device) or service to the [endpoint](#endpoint) of another.
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In [IoT Hub](#iot-hub), you can define [routing rules](#routing-rule) to describe how messages should be sent. In [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), event routes are entities that are created for this purpose. Azure [Digital Twins](#digital-twin) event routes can contain filters to limit what types of events are sent to each endpoint.
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In [IoT Hub](#iot-hub), you can define [routing rules](#routing-rule) to describe how messages should be sent. In [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), event routes are entities that are created for this purpose. [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins) event routes can contain filters to limit what types of events are sent to each endpoint.
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## F
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### IoT Edge
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### Linked IoT hub
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### Model ID
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When an [IoT Plug and Play device](#iot-plug-and-play-device) connects to an [IoT Hub](#iot-hub) or IoT Central application, it sends the [model](#model) ID of the [Digital Twins Definition Language](#digital-twins-definition-language) model it implements. Every model as a unique model ID. This model ID enables the [solution](#solution) to find the [device model](#device-model).
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### Model repository
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Stores [Digital Twins Definition Language](#digital-twins-definition-language)[models](#model) and [interfaces](#interface). A [solution](#solution) uses a [model ID](#model-id) to retrieve a model from a repository.
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### Model repository REST API
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An API for managing and interacting with a [model repository](#model-repository). For example, you can use the API to search for and retrieve [device models](#device-model).
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In the context of [Digital Twins](#digital-twin), a set of [models](#model) for a particular domain, such as real estate, smart cities, IoT systems, energy grids, and more. Ontologies are often used as schemas for knowledge graphs like the ones in [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), because they provide a starting point based on industry standards and best practices.
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In the context of [digital twins](#digital-twin), a set of [models](#model) for a particular domain, such as real estate, smart cities, IoT systems, energy grids, and more. Ontologies are often used as schemas for knowledge graphs like the ones in [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), because they provide a starting point based on industry standards and best practices.
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For convenience, many of the tutorials and quickstarts run [device](#device) code with simulated sensors on your local development machine. In contrast, a [physical device](#physical-device) such as an MXCHIP has real sensors and connects to an [IoT hub](#iot-hub).
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In the context of IoT, *solution* typically refers to an end-to-end IoT solution that encompasses IoT devices or assets as well as the cloud services they connect to. A solution includes elements such as [devices](#device), [assets](#asset), [device apps](#device-app), an [IoT hub](#iot-hub), other Azure services, and [back-end apps](#back-end-app).
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The subset of an IoT [solution](#solution) that tends to handle cloud-side tasks like device management or data processing and analytics, including an [IoT hub](#iot-hub), other Azure services, and [back-end apps](#back-end-app).
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Example usage: Don't use the word *telemetries*, telemetry refers to the collection of data a device sends. For example: When the device connects to your IoT hub, it starts sending telemetry. One of the telemetry values the device sends is the environmental temperature.
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A relative term describing services that feed data into the current context. For instance, in the context of [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), [IoT Hub](#iot-hub) is considered an upstream service because data flows from IoT Hub into Azure [Digital Twins](#digital-twin).
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A relative term describing services that feed data into the current context. For instance, in the context of [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins), [IoT Hub](#iot-hub) is considered an upstream service because data flows from IoT Hub into [Azure Digital Twins](#azure-digital-twins).
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