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26 minutes ago, Guest Dr Max Mallia-Parfitt said:
Digital Twin standards…
In order for digital twins to reliably work across sectors and be interoperable we need to ensure that communications and data standards are adhered to!
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How will this be managed for Digital Twins?
Completely agree – we are going to need standards. The good news is that there are actually a lot of existing standards we can build on and rely on, and some initiatives (like the DFTG) are doing important groundwork for more.
It’s important that we resist the urge to see Digital Twins as a single stack that needs to be standardised centrally. The power of digital twins is that it is an approach / methodology, not a single tech stack. That has an impact on how we create standards for it.
My hunch is that at this point, the most useful thing to do would be for practitioners to share which existing standards they are building on to create and connect twins – whether IoT standards for connectivity, W3C standards for discovery, BIM, etc.