Thanks @Tom Hughes for hosting, I’ll keep an eye and respond to further questions periodically as well. And of course the invitation remains open for anyone who would like to explore a case study to try and practially explore some of these topics

A really good point that we’ve started looking at. There’s an example of a company in the US that was recently acquired by an insurer who was trying to do this but with much less data than we’re talking about here: https://www.insurity.com/solutions/insurity-data-analytics-solutions/spatialkey-solutions/

Again this could be a great use case…

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Thanks @Tom Hughes we’ve just finished out Digital Twin series and we’re actually about to start an article series on data formats, sources etc. It’s also worth looking at the Digital Twin Consortium website: https://www.digitaltwinconsortium.org/index.htm

1 minute ago, Steven Zhang said:

Hi @David McKee 

Thanks for answering the question, I’d love to follow up. I have been using relational database, to manage some less real-time data, and also used graph database to explroe the relationship of meta data.

The use case I hope to provide is to use some of the m…

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1 minute ago, Guest Katharine van Someren said:

Hi Tom & David,
Another really interesting and thought provoking presentation, thank you.
David:
Where in your work has the simulated digital twin helped decision makers explore and understand the connections between infrastructure?
Looking at scenario development – do…

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Just now, Steven Zhang said:

Hi, @David McKee  Before contributing a use case. Frist of all, I loved your talk, I loved your introduction of a cloud environment for digital twin that will be available for everyone. 

I noticed you are using a “unified graph-based structure” – that underpins common geospatial reference, do…

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1 minute ago, Tom Hughes said:

When it comes to interconnecting digital twins across organisation and sectors within the built environment what do you see at the key challenges and opportunities?

 

Almost as I mentioned previously:

• Data formats, could we identify the most valuable types
• APIs, do we…

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Just now, Tom Hughes said:

To better understand maturity toward digital twins and the National Digital Twin programme CDBB have recently launched an extension to the Smart Infrastructure Index. This is currently open to DT Hub members from asset owning organisations until 31st August.

@David McKee – How have you seen…

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@Tom Hughes I the most obvious starting point is cities, probably with a focus on transport and mobility. This builds a basis for extending further into built environment as well as environmental concerns such as vehicle pollution and climate change.