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- Who are you? Ben Francis
- What is your industry and profession? I’m a Software Engineer and Founder of Krellian, a new UK-based tech startup providing smart building solutions. I have previously worked at Mozilla and Google.
- Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally? I am a W3C Invited Expert on the Web of Things and founder of the WebThings IoT platform, which was recently spun out as an independent open source project after four years of incubation at Mozilla. Krellian provides smart building solutions, including our own products and services, and a consultancy service specialising in the Web of Things.
- Why have you decided to join the DTHub? I learned about the DTHub from a post of the W3C WoT Interest Group’s mailing list and it sounded very relevant to my work on smart buildings and the Web of Things.
- Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events? Not yet, I just joined today.
- Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins? WebThings Gateway powers thousands of private smart homes around the world and the WebThings Framework provides a collection of re-usable software components to help developers build their own web things (connected digital twins) in a dozen different programming languages. I am currently exploring enterprise use cases of the WebThings platform, including for digital signage and building automation.
If you think there’s a way that Krellian could help you research, design, prototype or implement a digital twin based on W3C WoT standards, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.