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Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history
Data history is an integration feature of Azure Digital Twins.
June 2022
General availability: MATCH clause for Query
The MATCH clause is used in the Azure Digital Twins query language and allows you to specify which pattern should be followed while traversing relationships in the ADT graph.
May 2022
Public preview: Azure Digital Twins 3D Scenes Studio
3D Scenes Studio allows you to build lightweight 3D visualization with contextual data visualizations that can be consumed easily from web browsers.
June 2021
General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer
Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data.
Azure Digital Twins Explorer available in public preview
Visual developer tool for exploring your digital twin is now available as a web application.
May 2021
General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—April 2021
April updates include API general availability, new guidance articles, dashboard updates, IoT Edge updates, and device connectivity events.
April 2021
Azure IoT Edge nesting capabilities are now generally available
Our commitment is to simplify IoT for mainstream adoption. As such, we are announcing general availability of nesting capabilities for Azure IoT Edge for industrials to connect their equipment to the cloud through multiple network layers as recommended by the ANSI/ISA-95 standard.
December 2020
Azure Digital Twins is now generally available
Azure Digital Twins is generally available and read for production deployments. Features include: Flexible modelling and general graph topology, richer compute, bring your own IoT Hub for easier integration, and improved scalability.
September 2020
Announcing the unified Azure Certified Device program
A unified and enhanced Azure Certified Device program was announced at Microsoft Ignite, expanding on previous Microsoft certification offerings that validate IoT devices meet specific capabilities and are built to run on Azure. This program offers a low-cost opportunity for device builders to increase visibility of their products while making it easy for solution builders and end customers to find the right device for their IoT solutions.
July 2020
IoT Plug and Play new features now in public preview
IoT Plug and Play new features in Public Preview to continue simplifying IoT.
Azure Digital Twins enhanced features are now in preview
Create new generation IoT connected solutions that model the real world
May 2020
Azure Digital Twins now has expanded digital representation capabilities
Azure Digital Twins adds expanded digital representation capabilities.
December 2019
Csharp and Java SDKs for IoT Plug and Play are now in Preview
We have added two more SDK languages to the IoT Plug and Play public preview. You can now develop with the Azure IoT Csharp SDK and the Azure IoT Java SDK, in addition to Azure IoT SDK for Node.js and Azure IoT SDK for C.
September 2018
Azure Digital Twins is now in preview
Azure Digital Twins is now in preview. Azure Digital Twins is a new platform for comprehensive digital models and spatially aware solutions that can be applied to any physical environment.
December 2016
General availability: Azure IoT Hub device management
Azure IoT Hub device management enables IoT developers and operators to harness the power of the Azure hyperscale cloud to organize, monitor, query, and orchestrate changes across billions of devices.
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