Digitally Cloning the Physical

Abstract

The developments of Digital Twin-based solutions is receiving increasing attention from a large community of developers. The concept of the Digital Twin is not anymore confined into the realm of manufacturing. Lots of applications are adopting the approach in different application domains such as smart cities, e-health, logistics, education, and many more. The Digital Twin is a software representation of a corresponding complex physical object. The digital twin is based on two important features that are of the interest for the software and Information Technology community: data and modeling. Data are the central aspect for monitoring and representing the status of a physical object. Having access to well-formed data makes it possible to represent the salient features and characteristics of the physical object. The second major feature is how these data are to be organized and processed in order to reflect the actual status of the physical object.