In this webinar, Samuel Chorlton, chair of the Digital Twin Hub, part of the Centre for Digital Built Britain, spoke about how making data a commodity for public good is an organic opportunity to create a digital Britian consisting of connected digital twins this will create better built environments, sharing of effective information and digital framework coordination.
Samuel has previously led the creation of the Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure at the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory a collaborative cloud initiative looking to support the development of new and emergent techniques within the infrastructure research domain. He is an experienced technical architect and data visualisation specialist with experience spanning the Defence and Cyber sectors. Samuel also specialises in the design and development of platforms to support large scale and heterogenous data analysis.
Centre for digital built Britian is looking to understand how the transport (people and public), energy, telecoms, water, waste, social infrastructure, residential, construction and industrial economies can be combined with the natural environment to create 'built' environments. Having realistic representation of something physical, allows model simulations to create better real-world environments explained Samuel.
Their programme has created 'Gemini principals' that allow data to be shared securely whilst also supporting surrounding ecosystems within societies. By simply understanding how different entities like economic, social infrastructure and natural environments are expected to interact with each other, a 'system of systems' approach allows a built environment to be defined.
The benefits of a digital twin approach will allow society to benefit from lower utility bills, an increase in national productivity and creation of new services - all allowing us to move towards a circular economy - system processes and asset lifecycle can be easily repurposed into main stream components enabling a 'system of services' to mature whilst taking steps to achieve a net zero environments.
Cyber physical systems are expected to play a key role as core data will drive the coherent feedback loops that will allow real time physical systems to be responsive to its environment, which include the 'information value chain' that uses data management, data insights and learning cycles that make digital twins better understand assets, connected assets, and ecosystem of assets, such as an air traffic controller connecting to a freight system that, itself, connects into energy systems!
The National Digital Twin is looking to give better outcomes for the public per whole life pound. The core approach is to have the 'information management framework' derive from the community on what value is required. A community approach is expected to allow digital built standards to be realised for everyone i.e. standards that learn by doing and progress by sharing. The information management framework has foundational data models, reference data libraries and architecture methods being refined and when combined with the Gemini principles, built environments can be purposeful, trusted and holistically functional.
So, digital triplets?
Read the IET's Building Information Modelling (BIM): Addressing the Cyber Security Issues paper here
Read the IET's Good data for the public good here.
View more detail on the National Digital Twin website here.
Centre for digital built Britian is looking to understand how the transport (people and public), energy, telecoms, water, waste, social infrastructure, residential, construction and industrial economies can be combined with the natural environment to create 'built' environments. Having realistic representation of something physical, allows model simulations to create better real-world environments explained Samuel.
Their programme has created 'Gemini principals' that allow data to be shared securely whilst also supporting surrounding ecosystems within societies. By simply understanding how different entities like economic, social infrastructure and natural environments are expected to interact with each other, a 'system of systems' approach allows a built environment to be defined.
The benefits of a digital twin approach will allow society to benefit from lower utility bills, an increase in national productivity and creation of new services - all allowing us to move towards a circular economy - system processes and asset lifecycle can be easily repurposed into main stream components enabling a 'system of services' to mature whilst taking steps to achieve a net zero environments.
Cyber physical systems are expected to play a key role as core data will drive the coherent feedback loops that will allow real time physical systems to be responsive to its environment, which include the 'information value chain' that uses data management, data insights and learning cycles that make digital twins better understand assets, connected assets, and ecosystem of assets, such as an air traffic controller connecting to a freight system that, itself, connects into energy systems!
The National Digital Twin is looking to give better outcomes for the public per whole life pound. The core approach is to have the 'information management framework' derive from the community on what value is required. A community approach is expected to allow digital built standards to be realised for everyone i.e. standards that learn by doing and progress by sharing. The information management framework has foundational data models, reference data libraries and architecture methods being refined and when combined with the Gemini principles, built environments can be purposeful, trusted and holistically functional.
So, digital triplets?
Read the IET's Building Information Modelling (BIM): Addressing the Cyber Security Issues paper here
Read the IET's Good data for the public good here.
View more detail on the National Digital Twin website here.