Hexagon and Fujitsu are collaborating to jointly develop digital twin applications for predicting and mitigating natural disasters and traffic accidents.
Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division and Fujitsu Limited are jointly developing digital twin applications for predicting and mitigating natural disasters and traffic accidents.
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As an extension of digital twins, the metaverse will rely on data to make improvements to trial models
Digital twins have been used for several years to model projects in a virtual world before committing money and resources to build them physically. They are commonly used for tasks ranging from modeling manufacturing processes to simulating behaviors to try and prevent failures in systems and cities. They’re now being called the “building blocks of the metaverse”.
Read more: Digital twins: Modelling the future and the metaverse
What if we tell you that the age of AI is bringing your imagination to reality? The human mind works in fabulous and astonishing ways. Sometimes, when we close our eyes, we see, feel, touch, and experience our ideas clearly and accurately. However, the calculations, logistics, and mistakes take time and resources to translate this concept into reality. The Digital Twin technology is the technology of the future, and it will take us there faster, so we can minimize loss & damage – it will take us there virtually first.
Read more: How Digital Twins are revolutionizing Manufacturing and Smart Cities
Mark Enzer, CTO at Mott MacDonald and vice chair of the new Digital Twin Hub strategy board at Connected Places Catapult, lays out the challenges to overcome and requirements for a widescale, connected digital twin ecosystem to come to fruition.
Q: Where did your work on digital twins begin and what are the aspirations like for a connected ecosystem?
Mark Enzer: I’m a process engineer by training, which means that I’m very much into systems thinking, focusing on outcomes, processes, and information flow – all of which is highly relevant for digital twins in urban contexts because the use of digital twins is really all about outcomes for people, society, and nature. In this field, you must start with the outcome in mind. The work that we’ve been doing on digital twins at the Centre for Digital Built Britain has been to advance the idea of a connected digital twin ecosystem. The market for digital twins is taking off and doesn’t need an awful lot of encouragement, but to get the twins to talk to each other, leading to an ecosystem of connected digital twins, is more challenging because organisations using digital twins will need to be convinced to do the same thing in the same way.
Read more: Connected digital twins are in reach with the right approach
Digitally transforming your organization can be fraught with complexities and roadblocks, so you need a kind of “navigator” to help with the journey.
One of Gartner’s recommendations is to create a digital twin of your organization (DTO) to assist in the navigation. “Without some sort of a “navigator,” the risk of failure increases dramatically as the scope and pace of the digital business initiative expands.”