Track: Digital Twin

There are many enterprise IoT use cases where connectivity needs to reach every corner of the planet and require maximum service reliability. Deploying both cellular and satellite connectivity and managing these networks from a single console helps to get a seamless IoT experience. This session will explore use cases where enterprises with critical operations and infrastructure have reduced the complexity of connectivity management and optimized quality.

Linked Things has created a digital twin for Jiangsu Xinsheng Oil Facility that monitors edible oil being processed in tanks in real time. The data collected is used to improve the oil processing, bring operational transparency, make the process more efficient and highlight issues before they become a problem and improve decision making around tank operations.

The UK Government will set out their vision and next steps to enabling a Cyber-Physical Infrastructure - the collective capability that increasingly interconnected cyber-physical systems including Digital Twins, IoT, AR/VR, and Robotics & Autonomous Systems, powered by AI, HPC and advance networks will realise. Their work builds upon the findings of a government consultation during 2022 and will highlight UK Government's priority areas for public and private collaboration and co-creation in realising the innovation and resilience benefits of these increasingly federated systems.

Electric Places Community Interest Company collaborated with Slingshot Simulations Ltd to develop a geospatial digital twin to help them solve a significant challenge in relation to meeting Net Zero targets within the region. This project helped digitally represent the region and offer a visual and co-simulation optioneering, data-based route to identify the optimal projects and locations to deliver Net Zero solutions.

Digital Twins require modeling, information and data models, 2D and 3D spatial models, system models, simulation models, and more. In this session we will explore the various model types, their purpose, and their value. We will also discuss how all the models need to come together and the state of interoperability and standards.

Data products serve as a competitive advantage when they simplify how users across the enterprise and partners access and unlock value from data. What’s new is an emerging data mesh trend that offers a decentralized means of publishing and managing products so that different LoBs and partners can make different choices in technology, models, and SLAs—and still work together. Accenture, bp, and Schneider Electric share how adopting data products accelerates data value realization across their companies and with their partners.

Axomem has been working with a large 2,000-bed hospital since mid-2020 to create a 4D digital twin combining location and time-based patient and disease data, including COVID19 and MDROs (superbugs). This has allowed infectious disease team members to see, understand and predict disease transmission in a much more granular and intuitive manner than ever before. Mr Whiteley will present on how the project established a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, specialists, administrators and IT experts, along with the successes and unique lessons learnt from the journey to date.

Learn how to build and utilize a digital twin of human knee and how to utilize it for: 1) Diagnosis of injuries of knee and acceleration of rehabilitation outcomes 2) Treating Chronic conditions like arthritis 3) Improving health and wellness 4) Enhance performance for sports and athletics activities Learn how to measure sensor information relevant for the digital twin of the human knee. Learn about the benefits of this paradigm from the perspective of the patient, sports physician and the medical facilities like hospital.

How a federated digital twin ecosystem was used to solve a complex sustainability problem in maritime involving heterogenous data and diverse ownership. Each of the five participants was able to pursue their own selfish agendas whilst contributing to the collective goal of de-carbonising the maritime traffic using hydrogen. The outcomes were mainly in the research of the feasibility of generating enough electricity and hydrogen to (partially) power a specially adapted diesel engine, but there were concrete improvements to the air quality and operations of the port as well.

The value of Digital Twins can only be realized if Digital Twins and their virtual environment contain the same data and resulting information as their corresponding Physical Twins and real world environment. This means that the need for more extensive, faster, and richer sensing of the physical world will dramatically increase as valuable use cases proliferate. In addition, we will evolve from working in either the physical or virtual environments to integrating and working simultaneously in both environments. Dr. Grieves will discuss his views of the opportunities and issues of this evolution.

Vortex Bladeless, a Spanish technology startup, developed an aerogenerator with no blades as a solution to avoid the current problems of wind turbines and achieve advantages of solar energy. In this session, discover how they defined, designed, and optimized the prototype and continued with the development of a digital twin to accelerate the development process. Learn how IoT capabilities enabled them to monitor and control the asset in real-time while performing advanced data analytics to improve decision-making and extend the equipment's lifetime.

In order to meet its environmental, production quality and management optimization challenges, VINCI Construction has implemented a technological platform based on the Azure stack, along with Avanade. This collaboration around data, analytics and digital twin has enabled VINCI Construction to monitor its asphalt plants and energy consumption. During this session, discover the project implementation methodology as well as concrete use cases.

For the intelligent edge to reach its full potential, solution providers will need to deliver AI, IoT, computer vision, robots, and connectivity services - at scale. From farms to airports, these solutions must be tailored to specific customer requirements and desired outcomes - including sustainability. This requires a paradigm shift in the way we trade and deliver solutions. A collaboration of Digital Twin Consortium, TM Forum, and Airport Council International member organizations aligned concept, capability, and event models to simplify the delivering of complex multi-party services.

Valencia’s Digital Twin has been used as a decision support system tool to manage the water distribution network of the city and the metropolitan area, assisting the design of new infrastructures and supporting the daily operation for over 15 years. Valencia’s Digital Twin was the first use case of GoAigua Digital Twin. This platform integrates and normalizes information provided by sensors and different systems already deployed in the utility. This system keeps the model running live, having a holistic view of the system performance.

In medicine, the concept of digital twin is used to describe the use of individual-specific computer models for the prevention, prediction, diagnosis and treatment of a disease, as well as the optimization and personalization of intervention options. It provides a patient-specific means to answer therapeutic questions, from the discovery of new therapies to the prediction of the effect of a proposed therapeutic intervention and optimization of care. This session will explore how digital twins can improve healthcare and the main hurdles to their development and acceptance. Learn how digital twins can directly benefit patients by allowing for personalized treatment.