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Digital twins are the most useful when they are able to tap into as many sources of data as possible. Similarly, the benefits of digital twins for an organization are most acutely felt when the insights gleaned are shared across divisions. Creating standards for digital twinning exercises makes it easier to apply them across disparate parts of a business and makes it more likely they’ll remain interoperable down the road as needs and contexts change. The right investments upfront, both financial and in terms of planning, can reap dividends later.


In the UK, for instance, digital twins are being used to help public utilities like water and sanitation monitor sewer networks using smart infrastructure. Improved intelligence is seen as the primary means of ensuring not only regulatory compliance but managing pollution and ensuring network capacity is able to match increasing demand, even if portions of the network need maintenance or other attention.


Globally, it’s hoped that the move towards more connected, smarter cities will help meet the challenges of aging infrastructure, increased urbanization, and climate change head on. What’s needed is predicting and planning for problems, rather than reacting to try and resolve them.


For example, flash floods and other weather-related incidents in 2018 caused an estimated $166 billion in economic losses and almost 7,000 fatalities. Climate change means such events are only going to become more common. Growing urban density exacerbates the problem. But digital twins can help, for example by proactively warning citizens in areas likely to flood that they’re at risk via a message to their cellphones.


Sensors and technology like LiDAR can be used to map flood routes with unprecedented precision, while the massive computing power available today can turn that data into virtualized flood models. By enacting floods or other natural disasters on a virtual twin environment, the actual one it represents can be assessed and, if necessary, altered proactively by city planners or other stakeholders.


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