A new knowledge transfer partnership will see Hadean access specialist support from the Catapult via a dedicated knowledge transfer associate.
Award winning metaverse startup Hadean, and Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership, have been awarded a UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant to create a new offering in the transportation sector.
The two-year long project will aim to develop a traffic simulation digital twin that can scale to a large number of entities (cars, standard HGVs, eHGVs, charging points, electric overhead cables), replicate motorways and highways in the UK and study the optimal locations for e-Highways.
Using historical data and Hadean’s cloud computing platform, the 3D environment will also help assess how e-Highways affect the flow of traffic and how infrastructure needs to be built to support them.
This will enable a greater alignment between Hadean’s computing technology and the modelling capability and permit extensive and complex road networks to be modelled, stress-tested, and subjected to "what-if?" analyses. Challenges around scale of simulation, spatial computation, complexity and extent of exploration will be addressed using technologies Hadean has developed for connecting and scaling virtual worlds for metaverse, gaming, and defence.
Connected Places Catapult will provide technical support and guidance to Hadean via a specialist knowledge transfer associate, who will act as a liaison between the Catapult’s experts and the product team at Hadean. Specifically, the Catapult will advise on transport modelling and digital twin applications, supporting Hadean to develop mathematical and agent-based simulation models for road transportation. The Catapult team will also help Hadean overcome challenges around the acquisition and use of relevant data in the development of digital twins.
The grant demonstrates a growing interest in the public and private transportation sectors for scalable, agent-based models that can boost the development of modern, eco-friendly transportation.
“We are excited to be collaborating with Hadean to bring Connected Places Catapult’s knowledge base to bear to support their digital twin challenge. The Catapult’s unique expertise, boosted by the transfer of the Centre for Digital Twin Hub (previously hosted by University of Cambridge) to the Catapult in April 2021, is uniquely positioned to support Hadean in creating create a new offering in the transportation sector, a wholly owned e-Highways simulation digital twin.” Alexander Weedon, Executive Director of SME Development and Academic Engagement at Connected Places Catapult
“Although e-Highways are being tested in California, Germany and the UK, domain-specific expertise of how, where and under what conditions these can be deployed is currently limited. We are excited to take our first step in the transportation industry, alongside our Knowledge Transfer Partners at the Catapult, to leverage the near-unlimited computational capacity of the cloud and develop a cutting-edge decision support tool to help consultancies and government agencies plan the highways of the future. We also believe that such capabilities will have important synergies with creating a category of metaverse worlds which may require the simulating and understanding of real-world and simulated scenario-based traffic patterns and behaviours, as well as exploring hypotheticals and “what-if?” questions around infrastructure design.” Chris Arthurs, VP of Innovation, Hadean
"Connected Places Catapult is delighted to be working with Hadean Supercomputing on this exciting project. Real world testing is extraordinarily expensive and the opportunity to work with Hadean to develop digital twins which can model e-highways in a virtual world at a fraction of the cost is both valuable and a real learning opportunity for both organisations." Alisdair Ritchie, Head of the SME Development Team, Connected Places Catapult
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Friday 27 January, 15:30-16:00 GMT
The Digital Twin Hub and Connected Places Catapult is presenting a 30-minute virtual panel discussion into the intricacies and the financial challenges and opportunities that accompany digital twins creation and implementation. The panel will be hosted by digital twin enthusiast Henry Fenby-Taylor, joined by DT Hub Strategic Board members Mark Coates, of Bentley Systems, and Paul Lam, of TuSimple.
Speakers:
Host – Henry Fenby-Taylor, Creator of Digital Twin Fan Club podcast
Mark Coates, International Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at Bentley Systems
Paul Lam, Director, Corporate Development & Strategy at Tu Simple
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Data sharing between digital twins – can we show this in a simple way?
Sarah Hayes, Strategic Engagement Lead for CReDo
It’s great to hear about our digital twin projects because they’re exciting and innovative. Our use cases are different and varied because there are so many problems that digital twins can help us solve. In a recent radio interview[1], Lord Deben, Chair of the Committee on Climate Change suggested that it should be legally required that every single government decision should be made with climate change and sustainability in mind and that each decision should be made quicker than it currently is. We, the DT Hub community, know that connected digital twins are part of the answer to this to enable quicker decisions taking account of more information so that every decision can be made with climate change and sustainability in mind, and it’s part of our duty to communicate this.
But it’s also part of our job to explain well what digital twins are and how we develop them, not just what they can do for us. When I sat and listened to other presentations at the Utility Week conference last May in Birmingham, I started to wonder how others might become confused by the variety of ways we choose to describe our digital twin projects. Each project has a different diagram to represent how the data is brought together, what the controls over the data are and what the governance looks like. If we had a common diagram to describe these areas we could start to properly compare and contrast our approaches and better understand where bespoke approaches trump a common approach and vice versa.
A group of data and digital twin experts have come together since the summer to talk about how our own projects tackle the thorny problems of data integration and access. How do we bring together data from different sources? Where do we put that data? And how do we ensure as much of it is as open as possible and data that needs to be secure stays so? We found that we use different names for the same things but after some discussion we can come to consensus on which names seem most appropriate. It’s not an exact science, but through discussion and working through examples together, we’re all making progress.
We developed the data architecture wheel (with thanks to the Virtual Energy System team at National Grid ESO for sharing the original basis for this diagram) to show how data can be shared. Organisations have digital twins of their assets and may want to share some of their data and almost certainly need data from outside their organisation. We have different ways to share this data. We can share data on a point-to-point basis as below; I email you my file. But that won’t scale as multiple parties send multiple emails to each other (much like today?).
Or we can develop a central database for open or shared data. We’ll need some access, security and quality protocols (the padlocks) to govern the database and we’ll need a way to agree that. And whilst central databases do have their place, one central database cannot become the national digital twin. And many databases will continue to silo our information, causing duplication, inefficiency and friction.
So we can develop a distributed data sharing architecture with agreed common access, security and quality protocols (the padlocks). This allows organisations to retain control over their data and who accesses it and its’ quality.
In reality we know, we’re going to get a bit of each, and can it be represented like this?
We want your feedback, so let us know! Of course, these diagrams will best come to life when presented in the context of real projects, and that’s why we’re presenting them in the context of CReDo and the Virtual Energy System. Stay tuned to the Gemini Call and the CReDo team will be talking more about the distributed architecture being developed on 21 February.
In order to ingest data into particular use cases or digital twin projects, it is necessary to use 1) a high level data structure or model and 2) a more bespoke data structure tailored to the use case. A foundational or top level ontology would lay the foundations for 1) and 2) as is the thinking behind the development of the Information Management Framework.
Without an agreed top level ontology at this stage in our journey, we can still make progress by sharing our common high level data structures at the industry level and sharing our bespoke data structures at the use case and project level (which can be copied and adopted for similar use cases.) But we just need to make sure we’re talking about the same thing and that we can share our learnings as we go.
Using the same diagrams to point out differences of approach can help. I’m talking through these diagrams at the Gemini call today and putting out a call to action to help us improve these diagrams and to join in our discussion. Can you use this diagram to represent your digital twin or data sharing project? It would be fantastic to see others using these diagrams to talk about their projects at the Gemini calls. And can we start to develop shared rules that will enable distributed architectures to work across industries? Join the Data sharing architectures network on the DT Hub and share your feedback Data sharing architectures - DT Hub Community (digitaltwinhub.co.uk). If you’d like to get more involved then please get in touch.
Sarah Hayes is the Strategic Engagement Lead for CReDo, author of Data for the public good.
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Five-minute survey
Connected Places Catapult is conducting a survey to better understand the priorities of different organisations in relation to the creation of ecosystems of connected digital twins across the transport sector. Focusing on the current receptiveness towards capacity to federate, we are seeking to understand the areas to be addressed and the actions required to enable federation.
We are looking for individuals from the transport sector (or working with systems influenced by this sector, for example, energy) who are currently working on digital twins, shadows, models.
This survey takes 5 minutes to complete and input will be kept anonymised. Closing date: 24 January 2023.
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Background
The Transport Research and Innovation Board (https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/transport-research-and-innovation-board) has identified that there is a need for research and development funding to enable the UK to develop digital twinning capability for transport. Digital twins have potential to revolutionise the real-time monitoring of systems, simulation, optimisation and accurate forecasting and could play a key role in transitioning to net zero, improving user experience, increasing resiliency, furthering safety, and accelerating innovation.
This questionnaire looks to capture input from the community to understand the priorities for different organisations regarding ecosystems of connected digital twins (for example a federated network of digital twins). The questions have been informed by stakeholder interviews conducted in December 2022.
The survey will help inform the future vision and roadmap for ecosystems of connected digital twins in transport.
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Welcome to our last editorial of 2022!
An update from Ryan Goodman, Connected Digital Twin (DT Hub) Team Lead
What are some of the highlights from the last couple of months?
It’s been rewarding to see the DT Hub membership continue to grow month to month. We now have more than 3000 active members from a wide variety of sectors and disciplines. We’ve also seen greater engagement from the community in their willingness to share learnings and best practice when applying digital twin technology. We’re regularly seeing more than a hundred people on our Gemini Calls each week, with interesting discussions about relevant opportunities also being mentioned online. One opportunity to highlight is the recently announced funding call from EPSRC looking at leading a digital twinning research hub for decarbonising transport. There is more about this here.
We hosted our latest Strategic Board meeting on the 24 November 2022. This was an opportunity for board members to discuss the four main areas our Working Groups will focus on in the coming months:
Business case and demonstrating value
Open standards and interoperability
Digital skills and capacity building
Governance models and trust: legal agreement, contract, commercial and procurement clauses.
Each of these groups will be led by experts in their field, who will feed back to the board. We’re excited to see where this process takes us: the groups will drive the conversation to help grow the Hub’s membership into new and emerging sectors, beyond the built environment.
The DT Hub also launched its newly formed Advisory Group at an inaugural meeting in early December. The group has been created to help guide the focus of the Working Groups, and spans more than 25 stakeholders, ranging from sustainability managers to legal representatives and technologists. Again, there has been an emphasis on ensuring we have a wide variety of backgrounds to allow us to serve the community in the best possible way. The Advisory Group will be called on to bring external expertise to all aspects of the DT Hub. It will be a crucial knowledge pool as we move forward.
Acting as a convener and drawing these diverse stakeholders from different disciplines to the table is where the CPC can really add value to the DT Hub and is a personal highlight for me.
Any dates for the diary as we approach the New Year?
I don’t think it’s too early to flag up two key events the DT Hub is working towards:
9 March 2023 FutureBuild panel. This session will comprise several DT Hub community members driving discussions around the future adoption of Digital Twins.
22 June 2023 – Connected Digital Twin Showcase event. Save the date, as we will announce more details about this soon.
What exciting digital twin story have you come across recently?
There are two! The first involves a Swedish Metro station that is creating a digital twin, so that the mechanical control panels used by the operators can be replaced with a modern computerised traffic management system. Automating that whole approach through the use of a digital twin would constitute a huge step forward. It’s an exciting case study for us at CPC as we explore rail-related uses for CPC's programme Station Innovation Zone.
The second story comes from the defence sector where Babcock International is building a naval digital twin of a 4.5” gun. They have installed sensors on a frigate’s chilled water equipment – monitoring heat, pressures, fluid flow, ambient data and so on. This takes information directly from a frigate’s machinery control system – around 300 lines of data – to provide a system-level view. The data is then processed to enable scenario testing and failure prediction, thereby informing the appropriate maintenance interventions. It has the potential to vastly improve reliability and performance targets.
A final word?
As we approach the end of the year, I want to thank our community members for their enthusiasm and support for the programme, their willingness to collaborate with one another and the many who give freely and generously of their time. I would also like to extend my thanks to everyone at CPC for their hard work and dedication. We have achieved some important milestones – 3130 members! – and we have the building blocks in place to keep that momentum going.
Funding opportunity to develop use cases to solve the UK’s transport challenges using digital twins. Use cases should be for the benefit of users/passengers - the environment, or the economy to revolutionise the UK's transport system.
🔔 Applications close on Friday 30 December at 23:59pm 🔔
We are looking for innovative SMEs to identify transport system challenges and propose solutions using ‘digital shadows’ and/or ‘digital twins’ for enhanced decision making. These use cases will feed into and support the development of a vision and roadmap for digital twins.
Use cases should aim to improve transport for the user, reduce environmental impacts of transport, or support levelling up of the UK economy.
Up to ten SMEs will each be granted up to £6,000 to develop digital twin use cases that help to solve UK transport decarbonisation challenges.
Responses should describe the potential impact of proposed use case ideas.
Definitions of digital shadows and digital twins (figure 5) alongside further Information about digital Innovation can be found in the BEIS document: Enabling a national Cyber-Physical Infrastructure to catalyse innovation: consultation.
Who is it for?
SMEs with a UK registered office, interested in exploring the use of digital twins to address UK transport decarbonisation challenges and to contribute to shaping the future of connected digital twins in the UK transport system.
What are the challenge areas?
Use cases should be focused around at least one of the following three themes:
Improving transport for the user
Reducing the environmental impact of transport and moving towards decarbonisation
Levelling up the UK economy
Use cases should also apply to one or more of the following transport modes:
Aviation
Maritime
Rail
Road
Why Apply?
Receive funding to further develop a transport digital twin use case
Engage with the UK’s Transport Research and Innovation Board (TRIB) to refine the transport use cases
Contribute to and inform the vision and roadmap for connected digital twins in the transport sector
Opportunities to raise awareness of proposed solutions
How will the competition work?
Applications will be received by Friday 30 December at 23:59pm.
Successful applications at the first stage will be interviewed on either the 18, 19 or 20 January 2023.
Successful projects will then be issued an offer letter before the end of January for projects to begin in February 2023.
SMEs will be funded up to £6000 during February 2023 to develop their transport digital twin use case with input from challenge owners, who will support the writeup of the use cases.
Challenge owners will be brought into the project once the scope of the responses have been confirmed.
Eligibility
Open to Small to Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) with a UK registered office. An SME is any organisation that has fewer than 250 employees and a turnover of less than €50 million or a balance sheet total less than €43 million.
Key Dates
Competition opens – 9 December
Competition deadline – 30 December (23:59)
Final funding decisions – 24 January
Interviews – 18, 19, and 20 January 2023
Offer letters issued – End of January 2023
Projects start – Beginning of February 2023
Project complete – End of March 2023
Get in contact
For any queries please get in touch by emailing at: innovation_funding@cp.catapult.org.uk
How to apply?
Complete the application form to apply for this opportunity. You can also download the Application Guidance and FAQ document to help with your application.
To apply via the Connected Places Catapult website, click here.
A digital twin approach to embodied carbon calculations
Glen Worrall, Bentley Systems
This article considers how to use the DT Toolkit roadmap to deliver a digital twin suitable for embodied carbon reporting.
The requirement for a reduction in everyone’s carbon footprint can have a wide-ranging net when you consider the many “carbon” interactions we have in any given day.
However, the latency of any transaction tends to affect the ability for carbon teams to have any influence on the design or materials used that can materially impact an assets carbon footprint.
The digital twin mindset means that we can ensure our digital model is as close to the physical model as possible, but also can be interrogated quickly and easily.
Going digital is a common theme, but the effectiveness of this must come from an increase in our targeted goals. The following process may be aligned with embodied carbon workflows but can just as easily be applied to any process that utilises the digital twin framework.
Why... and what is it for?
We require a digital twin to ensure the standardisation of embodied carbon reporting, which will be effective if we can reduce the embodied carbon calculation cycle from two weeks to instant. We also aim to make the report accessible by all project team members to ensure they are aware of how their decisions can make an impact upon the assets embodied carbon.
The digital twin must be fed from current working practices and will remove the duplication of any data. This is an interesting problem that surfaces many times and generally conflicts with ISO 19650 processes, i.e. while we want to access SHARED / PUBLISHED information we do not want to access WIP information and we do not want to access source information using a variety of tools.
There are many ways we can use standards to enable access to the information and while visualising the result should be seen as part of the enhancements, the federation of external sources is not as straightforward as one would imagine.
Carbon Calculators enable smart material selection
What information do we need and what data do we have?
A simple question such as ‘how much concrete is in my model’ unfortunately has a very complex process in obtaining a result and one which costing, construction and carbon teams must answer on a regular basis. The definition of the term concrete is not as simple as it should be with different grades, but standards such as UNICLASS assist and help us locate those elements that will materially affect our embodied carbon total. Even the standardisation of units between the teams that report environmental product declarations and the teams that build engineering models is challenging. However, there are many unit conversion libraries which allow us to utilise tonnes, meters squared or cubic yards.
Standards such as Uniclass assist in developing industry processes
Who will do what?
This is interesting as most teams think that digital twins will remove the task. However, there is still a trade-off that must happen by carbon teams. Are we locally sourcing or cost restrained? This is part of the project planning that does impact the ability to be carbon zero. As long as make the task the sole focus and remove the requirement for finding data and presenting results for the project team, there should be a positive impact on the desired outcomes. We need the carbon teams to focus on effective material selection not being data wizards.
What does the data tell us?
The key here is that the results should be accurate, timely and effective. Improving the latency of the carbon reporting needs to have an impact that sees the reduction of the embodied carbon for all infrastructure. The data should show the reduction but also how complete the calculation is. An ISO 19650 workflow may release data which is not suitable, i.e. is the volume of a steel vessel really what we want to track or is it the volume of the shell of the vessel. This information must be transparent and especially when content is missing which will materially impact the global warming potential, i.e. what is the factor for the MEP systems in a building which may not be modelled for the next six months?
Information Accessibility should be a key value proposition
How are we doing?
Like all infrastructure projects, the project is an evolving twin. Further as we move into construction what processes are in place to ensure the as-built embodied carbon matches the as-designed embodied carbon? There are plenty of processes in place to ensure the as-built asset matches the engineering requirements, but where was a different material used, how did the construction process impact the actual embodied carbon for an asset. What happens in 12 years’ time or after the first maintenance window. This is information which we need to ensure that carbon and whole life costs align with our expectations.
Conclusion
Regardless of our outcome, a framework for our process and data requirements should lead us to a positive outcome. Further, the ability to identify the preferred outcomes allows us to identify those parts of the process that cannot meet requirements or can be improved.
Glen Worrall is a member of the DT Hub Community Council and Director of Digital Integration at Bentley Systems. Contact Glen via the DT Hub.
The climate emergency is here now, and collaboration through connected digital twins is key to tackling climate change.
The recently published JCNSS report points to work underway on digital twins to model climate-related infrastructure interdependencies. As an example it gives the government funded Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) project which is looking at the impact of flooding on energy, water and telecoms networks.
CReDo is combining datasets from Anglian Water, BT and UK Power Networks into one “system model” to develop a “cross-sector picture of impact of extreme weather events on the infrastructure system”. Using data and insights across sectoral and organisational boundaries, we can collaborate on a national network of connected digital twins to create a resilient infrastructure.
Chair of the Joint Committee, Dame Margaret Beckett MP, said:
“Storm Arwen showed how quickly the effects of a power shutdown can impact on other sectors. People were left without any access to their landline phones after the storms, and unable even to call emergency services in areas with a poor mobile signal. These cascading crises are a major danger to the functioning of the UK economy, and to society – that is why this is a serious risk to national security."
The UK’s critical national infrastructure (CNI) is vulnerable to extreme weather and other effects of climate change, such as sea level rises. Major power outages, landslides onto roads, buckling train lines and flooding of infrastructure sites: these are all realistic scenarios, and can lead to ‘cascading’ risks affecting other CNI sectors. Different infrastructure sectors are highly interdependent, so the shutdown of one CNI operator may cause knock-on effects on multiple other sectors.
We need to ready ourselves and adapt to the climate emergency, and although we can’t stop it as we would want to, we can use technology and specifically connected digital twins to mitigate the impact of such natural disasters.
Read the JCNSS report and find out why the CreDo project is so important.
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The Gemini Papers set the vision for the future, showing the vital role that connected digital twins play in improving social, economic, and environmental outcomes.
The Gemini Papers: Summary Paper contains insight from Dame Wendy Hall, Professor Andy Neely, Alexandra Bolton and Mark Enzer and tells you everything you need to know and what must happen next, in three parts:
• What are connected digital twins? • Why connected digital twins? • How to enable an ecosystem of connected digital twins?
The Summary Paper highlights the team responsible for the Gemini Papers and lists the key documents that helped in informing their creation.
Read all the Gemini Papers here.
Here are a few photos from the live launch of the Apollo Protocol white paper on 25 October.
The launch also included news of the InnovateUK funded programme of Hacks we are running over the next few months. Read on for links and more info:
The team who wrote the white paper: @Su Butcher, @Henry Fenby-Taylor, Adam Young (techUK), @Paul Surin, @Rab Scott, @Neil Thompson, @Jonathan Eyre, @Rick Hartwig.
Fergus Harradence (BEIS) endorsing the Apollo Protocol in front of a slide showing the stakeholders.
John Patsavellas cautioning us about data for the sake of it.
Richard Robinson describing the Construction Leadership Council's vision for the future and endorsing the Apollo Protocol.
Austin Cook of BAE Systems gave a fascinating insight into the limitations even such an advanced manufacturer is grappling with, and describing their Factory of The Future project.
A ripple of amusement runs through the audience when Miranda Sharp mentions that "everyone thinks we should share data but not their particular data at this particular time".
@David Wagg has just been appointed one of the leads on the infrastructure arm of the pan-UK Turing Research and Innovation Cluster.
@Jonathan Eyre and @Neil Thompson announce the InnovateUK funded Hack sessions. Read more about the first ones and sign up here: https://engx.theiet.org/b/blogs/posts/digital-twins-apollo-protocol-value-hack
Maria Shiao asks a question from the floor.
Chair @Rab Scott kept us entertained!
Post event drinks and networking
Want to watch the live launch? You can do so here:
Want to come to the Hacks? Find out more here: https://engx.theiet.org/b/blogs/posts/digital-twins-apollo-protocol-value-hack
Want to keep in touch? Join the Apollo Protocol Network here:
100%Open is working with a Net Zero Buildings (domestic & non-domestic sites) accelerator to research the key brands and the propositions working in this area.
If you work in a closely related industry with responsibility for decarbonisation, renewables, energy efficiency and/or net zero buildings’ design, management, products and services and would like to take part in this research, we would love to have you take part and can offer £50 in acknowledgment for the needed time investment of a 45 minute interview this November, 2022.
There is a limited time on this offer, so if you or anyone you know is interested, send us an email to hello@100open.com today!
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The Global BIM Network primary event, the General Assembly, takes place online on 1 December 2022.
The Global BIM Network will bring together members of the global public sector at its Annual General Assembly, to foster a more productive and collaborative global digital construction sector that delivers benefits for people and places.
During the event we will be providing attendees with a preview of the Network’s forthcoming Digital Transformation Playbook for Public Sector Construction. The session will answer the following questions:
◼️ Who is the Digital Transformation Playbook for? ◼️ What states of digital transformation does it address? ◼️ What questions about digital transformation does it answer? ◼️ How can it be used to improve public sector capacity for digital transformation?
You will also hear about the Network’s progress to date, as well as hearing presentations from the Network who will be providing case studies on the digital transformation in their home countries.
Public sector The Annual General Assembly is for public sector representatives interested in the digital transformation of public sector construction, including from national and sub-national levels, policy, change program staff and infrastructure owners and procurers.
Register for the General Assembly here
About us
The Global BIM Network brings together members of the global public sector, non-governmental organisations and multi-lateral institutions, to foster a more productive and collaborative global digital construction sector that delivers benefits for people and places. The network is free to join and will provide access to knowledge and the opportunity to exchange information with peers from across globe.
Global BIM Network General Assembly 2022 Flyer.pdf
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ISO/IEC 30173 is open for public comment. https://lnkd.in/eeRbjWFv
Digital Twin is not a new idea. Twinning has been used in aerospace for over 50 years, but widespread advances in digitalization have enabled the concept to spread and now many more sectors are new and potential adopters.
The purpose of this standard is to provide: a common basis for understanding the concept and composition of a digital twin; an overview of its life cycle in relation to the entity it represents; and a basis for the development of other standards on digital twin.
Click here to review and comment by - deadline extended to 18 November 2022. https://lnkd.in/eeRbjWFv
We are pleased to announce that Computational Modelling Cambridge Ltd (CMCL) will be the development partner for the team of collaborators developing the Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) – a connected digital twin demonstrator across the critical infrastructure network to build climate resilience. CMCL will use semantic knowledge graph technology to help build core functionality to support cross-sector data sharing, system-wide impact modelling and decision support.
Dr Amit Bhave, CEO at CMCL, said:
“Given the growing interest and attention towards data sharing and connected digital twins, we are thrilled to be selected for this highly competitive opportunity to contribute to the next phase of CReDo. The programme is strongly aligned with CMCL’s strategic priority of enabling cross-sector interoperability.”
The CReDo team is also pleased to continue its work with the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), through the Hartree Centre and the Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI), who will provide the project with crucial data and cyber security expertise and provide secure hosting for the system. We hope to confirm the complete team soon.
The contracts signify the start of a new six-month work programme for CReDo and infrastructure collaborators Anglian Water, UK Power Networks and BT, in combining data and insights across sectoral and organisational boundaries – to improve coordination of operational and investment decisions, mitigate the effect of flooding on network performance, and ensure reliable service delivery to customers.
CReDo looks specifically at the impact of flooding caused by climate change on energy, water and telecoms networks, but its longer-term aim is to capture new sectors to realise an integrated infrastructure innovation ecosystem that delivers an even greater level of resilience.
Professor Kate Royse, Director, STFC Hartree Centre said:
“Trying to predict and mitigate the effects of climate change when you can only see a small part of the bigger picture is almost impossible therefore connected data is the key to building climate resilience. We’re excited to be continuing our collaboration with the network of CReDo partners by providing our data science expertise to explore how to work across sectors and systems to address climate change challenges.”
STFC Scientific Computing’s Dr Brian Matthews, who leads DAFNI, said:
“I am delighted to continue to work with the innovative CReDo partnership. Using the secure collaboration space that DAFNI provides, the CReDo partners can work together and share data safely, and so explore the impact of floods on our vital utility networks. This digital twin will help partners to provide rapid responses to emergencies and inform planning decisions, and so it will enhance the resilience of our society as we face the challenges of extreme weather as a result of climate change.”
The first phase of CReDo was funded by a collaboration between UKRI, Connected Places Catapult and the Centre for Digital Built Britain. Connected Places Catapult has taken over as lead organisation for this next stage of development.
Learn more about CReDo
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