Dan Benitah

Azure Digital Twins (ADT) Explorer

June 02, 2021iot projects2 Min Read

Since last summer, a great tool was made available to easily browse Azure Digital Twins v2's graph called the ADT Explorer. First and…

DTDL models inheritance

December 20, 2020iot projects7 Min Read

Digital Twin Language Definition (DTDL) is brilliant and helps standardize how to create your twin models and how they relate to each other…

New query COUNT functionality for Azure Digital Twins

October 12, 2020iot projects1 Min Read

A quick one in case people did not notice it is now possible to use COUNT in queries to the Digital Twins v2. Very basic, but makes a big…

SPFx not appearing on refresh anymore!

September 15, 2020workplace automation1 Min Read

Last summer I started looking a little bit more into SPFx development, having to port a very basic HTML/CSS/JS component from content editor…

Using tags with Azure Digital Twins

September 01, 2020iot projects1 Min Read

The latest version Azure Digital Twins' DTDL (Digital Twin Definition Language v2) supports a wide variety of schemas. One of them is the…

Asking for confirmation when using Microsoft Power Automate and Planner

August 25, 2020workplace automation2 Min Read

As discussed in my previous post, posting via flow immediatly after people would inadverdetly tick a box (which completes that task) would…

Querying Rigado data through IoT Central

August 07, 2020iot projects2 Min Read

Quick one around querying IoTC Rest API to retrieve the last known values of some of your Rigado connected sensors... It starts with the…

Using Microsoft Power Automate and Planner to automate praise

August 04, 2020workplace automation2 Min Read

This year, my company had an Azure certification challenge and the team started to track people's certification status using planner. That…

Azure Digital Twins new Multi join query feature

August 02, 2020iot projects1 Min Read

Microsoft's Azure Digital Twins Preview v2 team has released a new feature. It allows to query the twin graph with up to 5 joins. Concretely…

Azure IoT Hub test data using Particle Internet Button

June 01, 2020iot projects3 Min Read

Particle internet buttons as IoT hub test data source. Use a Particle internet button to create test data for your Azure IoT projects…

Automate daily time-lapses

February 28, 2020iot projects3 Min Read

Looking back at picture of how the garden evolved throughout the spring and summer, I kept on thinking that a time-lapse of this would look…