Reply To: Towards a Web of Digital Twins discussion

2 minutes ago, olivierthereaux said:

One of the things which our research hints at, is that we may not be seeing (only) direct data connectivity between twins, but in many cases there will be pooling/aggregation of higher level data by intermediaries. 

The need for standards and protocols starts is driven initially by a need to connect sub-systems, rather than to enable an extensive web of systems. If we think about VCRs (apparently the go to case study for standards), it was important from an ecosystem point of view to develop and adopt standards, not from a wider connectivity point of view. So, if I buy a digital twin of a pump (ideally provided alongside the physical asset), I need to know it will plug into my exiting digital twin of my pumping station, and to my network digital twin. We can then in time scale from there to an infrastructure level.