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- Who are you? Tim Goodwin
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What is your industry and profession?
I am Senior Solutions Consultant for Virtalis and I’ve been working in the VR/Visualisation sector for nearly 25 years. -
Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally?
The digital twin is something we have worked on for many years at differing levels of complexity and use cases. How to layer the different data sources into a unified visualisation to aid communication is vital.
On a personal level, I always loved the ‘size of the earth to universe’ animations as we zoom out from the park to the city, to the country, to the earth until we disappear completely. When I look at the digital twin on a countrywide scale, I see that same idea where I can just keep zooming in and looking at more and more focussed items of interest. The downside, I could see myself losing many hours getting distracted. 🙂 -
Why have you decided to join the DTHub?
There are so many different use cases built in isolation that brought together could truly improve how we work together to improve the country. The challenge is to bring these together from the public and private sector to make it beneficial to all. I think the DTHub is key in bringing together this data and understanding and shaping where we are heading. Whilst the early stages are key in planning that framework, I do see our software GeoVisionary as a perfect tool to provide the platform to visualise these massive disparate data sets. -
Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events?
I have been to one in person and a few webinars. -
Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins?
Whilst we have worked on many digital twins over the years from full ship to maintenance training of household goods, the more relevant in scope are conducted by our users. Our partner in developing GeoVisionary is the British Geological Survey. On a countrywide (and global) level, they are using it visualise huge amounts of data to analyse coastal erosion, geothermal power, urban geology, flooding, city planning among many use cases. Some examples can be found here.https://www.bgs.ac.uk/geology-projects/3d-visualisation-systems/