A digital twin is the virtual model of a real-world asset or system in real-time. It may include information about people, locations, processes, networks or physical events. Digital twins come in many forms, but they all are comprised of data that represents the physical world. Digital Twins allow analysis to prevent issues before they occur, minimize shutdowns, uncover opportunities and can enable simulations for use in future planning.
Digital Twins and Utilities
For the Utility Industry, digital twin technology assists to break down information silos, improve the customer experience by better understanding outages, enhances operations by providing operational business intelligence, and can fuel innovation of new and emerging business models.
As digital twins are becoming commonplace elsewhere, we are seeing more utilities exploring opportunities to use digital twins to support data-driven decision making in real-time. They are also exploring ways to integrate beyond single point-to-point connections. UDC’s Digital Twin solution for Grid uniquely supports these goals. It fits within your existing Esri ArcGIS Enterprise deployment and provides a bridge between your physical and digital systems enabling multisystem visualization in one place, real-time analysis and enhanced communication.