Just now, Nicholas said:

You make a really interesting comparison with the world wide web. What can we learn from the work being done by the World Wide Web Consortium on the Web of Things related to data and interoperability for IoT please?

We were heavily inspired by the work of the W3C (as Simon mentions in the intro to…

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12 minutes ago, Guest Luke O’Rafferty said:

I do think your point on pooling/aggregating information, and how we federate to be the most important. If you have a common language for inputs/outputs, an easy (conceptually at least) use case could be how has Covid-19 impact infrastructure energy usage? I can imagine querying each…

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1 minute ago, Chris Jones (NWG) said:

Great. Have you any thoughts on how that might work?

(that = sharing at higher levels)

To be fair, we didn’t explore that in as much depth as I would like. This still feels “early days” with too few well-developed use cases to truly speak authoritatively. 

I can certainly…

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5 minutes ago, Chris Jones (NWG) said:

What does strike me about that, and the conversation in the thread, is that we’ve very quickly got hung up on data, which is essentially the lowest level of the twin concept (ref the triangle diagram in the Gemini Principles). Far greater challenged will emerge as we seek to connect twins as…

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Just now, Nicholas said:

What is the relationship between a network of twins and a National Digital Twin for the built environment please?

The two concepts are very similar! The NDT programme is in effect helping build the web of twins, with a focus on creating positive impact at the national infrastructure level.

The…

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

The intermediaries reminds me of Data Trust. “A data trust is an intermediary between data providers, data users and other stakeholders in the sharing and use of data. ”  ref: https://theodi.org/article/data-trusts-decision-making-report/ 

Indeed.

Data Trusts are one of the…

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4 minutes ago, Chris Jones (NWG) said:

The need for standards and protocols starts is driven initially by a need to connect sub-systems, rather than to enable an extensive web of systems. 

This is incredibly important, and I agree that the first connections will need to be between similar twins and relevant sub-systems.…

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2 minutes ago, Guest Dr Max Mallia-Parfitt said:

I agree in part, but when it comes to data excahnge there has to be a confirmed standard that is extensible, otherwise the benifit of the data exchange will be minimal and people will continue to use ‘Air Gapped’ systems due to their concirn over what data is being…

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6 minutes ago, Guest Charles Keen of Baikal AR said:

Hello Olivier, can you tell us how we can get [free] access to the data standards and indexes, please? 

There are a number of standards being developed – I don’t think there is a single list anywhere yet (that sounds like something useful to develop). As for free…

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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…

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