Digital twin technology means a lot for flood preparedness, drainage and wastewater management and a host of other things in the water sector and beyond. It also has a lot to do with running business differently as the knowledge obtained from digital twins, including how to aggregate and visualise data, has large potential to shape the future of decision-making and data.<\/p>\n
For those unaware, digital twin is a bit of buzzword that is catching on in academic, industry and policy worlds that refers to a live real time digital counterpart of physical systems we encounter in the real world. It\u2019s closely related to what people in academia and industry also call \u2018cyber-physical\u2019 (more about this in our podcast on \u2018The Fourth Industrial Revolution<\/a>\u2019).<\/p>\n Here is an example of a Games Engineering<\/a> student’s final project in creating a digital twin of a building, in this case the Urban Sciences Building at Newcastle Helix<\/a>. When the lights turn on and off in the building itself they do the same in the simulation.<\/p>\n