Digital Twin Hub | Brian Matthews | Activity https://digitaltwinhub.co.uk/profile/brian-matthewsstfc-ac-uk/activity/ Activity feed for Brian Matthews. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:44:39 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.3.60 en-US 30 hourly 2 d0e92b569aa0707bbfc3ea5f3f80a985 Brian Matthews replied to a discussion in the forum http://dthub.wpenginepowered.com/forums/discussion/meeting-the-digital-twin-challenge-discussion/page/2/#post-1022 Tue, 05 May 2020 10:51:42 +0100 Reply to Meeting the Digital Twin Challenge discussion

8 minutes ago, Nicholas said:

Hi Tom,

Thanks for this. Brian might add more into this – but just quickly.

These Digital Twin Talks are a good way to find out about some of these cornerstones. For example, the talk last week with the ODI was a great introduction to the data infrastructure needed to to support…

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HI Andrew,

Just now, Andrew Myers said:

I’d be keen to get the thoughts from @Brian and other group members on the pros/cons of DAFNI vs. public cloud providers (such as Azure/Amazon). Also the potential for linking twins hosted the two environments (which links in well with the discussion from the ODI talk last w…

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]]> c542233065bed5d83ca8d513856b3481 Brian Matthews replied to a discussion in the forum http://dthub.wpenginepowered.com/forums/discussion/meeting-the-digital-twin-challenge-discussion/page/2/#post-1019 Tue, 05 May 2020 10:41:21 +0100 Reply to Meeting the Digital Twin Challenge discussion

Dear Mark,

1 minute ago, Guest Mark Jenkinson said:

Brian,

Many thanks for the presentation.  Are you engaging with any universities / organisations outside of the UK?

Thanks

Mark

Our University partners have extensive international connections.    A particularly interesting area is in int…

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2 minutes ago, Marion Samler said:

We will have city level data from our partners i.e. UKCRIC Urban Observatories.  This city level data relates to Newcastle, Sheffield, Bristol, and following these will will be looking to bring on data from Birmingham, Manchester and Cranfield.  

More on the Urban observatories can be fo…

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4 minutes ago, Guest Yu(Steven) ZHANG said:

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the updates, geospatial data is an interesting and exciting area. I guess DAFNI may be able to help Geospatial Commission to <Building correlations between geospatial d…

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2 minutes ago, Guest Andrew Z said:

Brian, thank you. You have mentioned the legacy assets. What type of assets, DAFNI as a platform, mainly keeps – the new ones, which had digital model from the start, or legacy, which needed to be ‘digitised’ recently? 

Much of our current pilots have been on planning of new assets – e…

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]]> ec72c56b47ac716d3393c8ac45219944 Brian Matthews replied to a discussion in the forum http://dthub.wpenginepowered.com/forums/discussion/meeting-the-digital-twin-challenge-discussion/page/2/#post-1009 Tue, 05 May 2020 10:16:02 +0100 Reply to Meeting the Digital Twin Challenge discussion

Hi Nick,

7 minutes ago, Nicholas said:

@Brian Matthews 

It would great to get your overall thoughts please on how  DAFNI contributes to providing the data infrastructure needed for digital twins please? 

Many thanks,

Nick

 

DAFNI provides an integration hub.  We have a metad…

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Hi Steven,

5 minutes ago, Guest Yu(Steven) ZHANG said:

Hi Brian,

Good to know DAFNI is planning to publish a metadata framework. Will there be any data/tools/models to be made publicly accessible via DAFNI?

It will be good to see some contextual and public available data be integrated and made availble vi…

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Hi Steven,

1 minute ago, Guest Yu(Steven) ZHANG said:

Hi Brian,

Good to know DAFNI is planning to publish a metadata framework. Will there be any data/tools/models to be made publicly accessible via DAFNI?

It will be good to see some contextual and public available data be integrated and made availble via DA…

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]]> 5cf27d51f28b790edc4d87cd491c2fb0 Brian Matthews replied to a discussion in the forum http://dthub.wpenginepowered.com/forums/discussion/meeting-the-digital-twin-challenge-discussion/#post-1004 Tue, 05 May 2020 10:00:46 +0100 Reply to Meeting the Digital Twin Challenge discussion

Hello Andrew,

2 minutes ago, Guest Andrew Z said:

Hello Brian,

Thank you for presentation.  Digital twins and networks of twins are obviously very exciting and promising concepts. But currently twins still exist for some selected assets only. Often in a ‘premium sector’ of B2B market. What do you believe may be ma…

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Hi Lawrence,

7 minutes ago, Lawrence Chapman said:

I am currently work on a large rail project across the north of England. We are currently at the design stage , where we would like to understand the carbon impact of different design options. eg Embeded Carbon from built assets (capCarb)  plus operational carbon (OpCarb) from…

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Hi Keith,

2 minutes ago, Guest Keith Deaney said:

Are the metadata framework requirements available for download?  Is there any guidance on the requirements of this data prior to circulation of models? And what standards are these requirements based?

 

Thanks

Keith

We are currently w…

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HI Simon,

4 minutes ago, Guest Simon Scott said:

Hi Brian,

Is there a third category of digital twins: historical? These capture what happened to the physical entities and enable learning and assurance?

Kind Regard

Simon

An interesting question.   These would be like predictive twins – b…

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