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- Who are you? Adam Jennison – Leading Hull City Council’s Smart City implementation – think of me as a bit of a thinker but mostly a doer – I implement the strategy & vision of others
- What is your industry and profession? Developer & ICT project manager but a huge focus on all things data, in a previous life I was a builder so just love buildings
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? Professionally Hull has ambitions to take the real-time data from our Smart City platform to feed into a local digital twin, which we expect will then feed into a Regional and National Digital Twin. Our aim is digitise as much of the City as possible to provide accurate simulations for “what-if scenario planning” as well as future modelling.
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? Digital Twins are relatively new and provide a huge leap forward in providing plug and play way of trialling things out and modelling the “whole” rather than small geographic areas.
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Yes, they’ve been informative and enjoyable 🙂
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Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? Not yet but we’re part of the recent SlingshotSimulation’s successful Innovate UK bid for phase 1 funding of a Regional Digital Twin covering Hull City Council, Leeds City Council and York City Council. This will initially focus on the building and transport layer. We will be providing GIS layers, bulk datasets (such as Origin/Destination information) as well as real-time feeds such as SCOOT loop vehicle movement and parking.
We very much see that in time a digital twin will become a required system for every LA, we’ve already taken the decision to purchase a Smart City platform to allow us to get maximum reuse of data from internal and partner systems as well as the expected avalanche of IoT and citizen created data that describes the place we live. This platform will provide the additional evidence to augment the move to ‘evidence based decision making’ and where possible and safe to do so some of the decisions will be automated. Machine learning/AI is another topic that is part of our roll out plan but we’ll not discuss that here.
A digital twin is the natural progression for this Smart City data – we can plug the data into a digital twin and run simulations, see if it responds as the real-world does and tweak until we get a working model of the City. From then we can look at effects of an action (e.g. road closure, new housing, etc) propagate across the City.
We’re also looking at fractal digital twins where possible -i.e. digital twins of buildings feeding into the City digital twin, zooming in and in.. 🙂
Everything above will also help with the carbon reduction agenda – it’s all exciting but ultimately it requires data – and real time data hence our Smart City platform and strategy.
If anyone wants to chat about Smart Cities/DTs then feel free to contact me – adam.jennison@hullcc.gov.uk