November 27, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 4: Writing Databricks' Predictive Maintenance Results to Blob

In this post, we will detail how we committed our results from part 3 to Azure Blob Storage so it's accessible to our Digital Twins project.

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Theta

November 26, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 2: Setting up Azure Databricks for Predictive Maintenance

In this post, we will elaborate upon Azure Databricks, and explain how we set it up to prepare for Predictive Maintenance of our digital twin’s corresponding real-life assets.

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Theta

November 25, 2019

Enhancing Digital Twins Part 1: Harnessing Data and Predictive Maintenance to Enhance Digital Twins

Part 1 of a 4-part series about displaying Predictive Maintenance insights in Digital Twins, using Azure Databricks. Before we get into the setup details, we’ll introduce the concept of Predictive Maintenance and the tools we used to make predictions.

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Theta

August 23, 2019

On the road with 365 Saturday

Wagner Silveira, Tharanga Chandrasekara and Steve Gichure have been busy presenting at the recent 365 Saturday events, where you can learn more about Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. Here's an update from Wagner to give us an insight into what they've been up to. Watch this space for another update once they've finished the series.

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Theta

August 13, 2019

Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Keeping Your Company Devices Secure

Many of us work from different locations, at various times of the day and use an array of devices including laptops, mobile phones and tablets. Mobility has become a necessity, but what are the security vulnerabilities?

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Theta

July 30, 2019

Exploring digital twins part 4: AR/VR Digital Twinning with SignalR and Mixiply

This is the final post in a series of by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.

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Theta

July 15, 2019

Exploring digital twins Part 3: Raspberry Pi and Azure IoT Hub connection using Python

This is part three in a series of blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform. Extending from part one, this post will demonstrate sending telemetry from a Raspberry Pi IoT device to Azure’s IoT Hub, using Python.

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Theta

July 8, 2019

Exploring digital twins part 2: IoT Hub, Azure Functions and SignalR

This is the second in a series of tech blog posts by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.

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Theta

July 1, 2019

Exploring digital twins part 1: Azure DevKit and IoT Hub

This is the first in a series of tech blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.

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Theta

April 17, 2019

Automating expense reporting with robotic process automation

Nobody likes entering expenses into their company’s business management system, so we decided to tackle the frustration head on. How could we make expense reporting faster? Better? Funner? (ok maybe that’s not a word but you know what we mean!). Could robotic process automation help?

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Theta