Digital Twin Roadblocks POLL – We would like your help in prioritising next steps for the DT Hub

[Jonathan Eyre]

Hi Will,
Thanks for your kind words and I fully agree in the need to get from use cases into the case studies as we have been discussing at previous forum events.
With regards to the two use cases you mentioned:

1. This is a really good use case that incentivises a better economy of housing in my opinion. Are you aware of anyone doing this yet or progressing this as a concept? I’ll certainly add this to knowledge graph that was being built up at the previous events that will be open sourced shortly.
2. This is synergistic to a few aspects that was mentioned at the last hack in December. There is quite a bit of work being done around housing passports with the home owner having having access to all their information upon purchase rather than “the drawer” that has all the paperwork. Is there anything for this that you had in mind in particular to help capture this?

Did anyone else have thoughts on these ideas?

[Su Butcher]

Both interesting ideas. The second one, a public cloud storage of design and maintenance documentation is similar to the work that Chimni is doing (and recently completed an InnovateUK funded project on) except that their project is based around the owner being the recipient and manager of asset information following construction and use this for maintenance records etc. This passport/logbook belongs ultimately to the building and remains with it when ownership changes. The difference is that this doesn’t allow for any public sharing of the data about all the buildings involved, though it would allow the homeowner to share the data with prospected buyers I imagine.

What would be the benefit of a public sharing of this data, and would that override the risks and reluctance of homeowners to share?

How might the idea apply to existing buildings, the public rented sector etc.?
Might be an idea to get Nigel Walley of Chimni involved in this discussion.

https://www.chimni.net/abouthttps://www.chimni.net/chimni-innovation-grant 

 

[Jonathan Eyre]

The work Chimni are doing in this space was actually what I was thinking about here Su. I caught up with Nigel recently to learn about what they’ve been up to and is a great example of what Will had identified here as a use case.

[Will Serrano]

Hello all

@Jonathan

Regarding 1) Smart Meters, I reckon the Data Communications Company ( https://www.smartdcc.co.uk/) may help as the starting point. Data from smart meters must be stored already in the cloud (another aspect if is is private / public etc), otherwise, we could not get invoiced. We just need a read only API to it.

@Su

Regarding the 2) We can make it optional if the data is public or private (for the owner to decide). Note we need to consider leaseholders and freeholders. This would be similar to trip advisor / google reviews or CCTV in terms if the owner does not have anything to “hide” then any person may ask “why it is not public?”. I reckon at the beginning if the owner tries to sell or rent, then he will have an incentive to share, although eventually, home insurance could be cheaper if it is shared. 

Regarding existing buildings, the same incentives apply if you want to sell or rent, you can get a survey done or keep maintenance logs. For the public sector we can use regulation, ie demonstrating the building is safe to work or live in.

I reckon eventually the main incentive is competition, like BREEAM. WELL, etc if somebody else has it and you do not, then you are losing out in addition to reducing insurance or maintenance costs.

Next steps

If we could join Chimini + DCC as the starting point, see how the map info to property and space and merge that into a Digital Twin then I reckon we have a valuable application.

Without trying to look like a project manager, unless there are not any other proposals for “bare minimum” case studies, would we agree on the next step to have a 60-minute workshop with both of them to define integrations and data structure?

Thanks

Will