Digital Twin for Everything: Some Pilot Studies

De-hua \JU
2019 DEStech Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering  
Digital twin for everything has been proposed as a novel idea to implement digital transformation in the 4.0 era. Beyond the industrial applications, more 70 experimental prototype systems have been developed by the author so far to demonstrate its feasibility and general availability for applying digital twins in cultural heritage and knowledge dissemination areas. A universal methodology is developed based on knowledge-graphs and future Internet technologies to implement a goal-oriented
more » ... ces integration and provide high-value cultural and knowledge cloud services, which can be co-created and shared by people, towards building an ideal cultural and knowledge ecosystem. Application Extension of Digital Twin Digital twin, as a virtual replica of a physical asset in the real world, has been listed by Gartner as Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 3 consecutive years, from 2017 to 2019 [1], and viewed as a key technology for Industry 4.0. However, current R&Ds are solely concentrating on industrial applications. For our viewpoint, more value could be created by pursuing digital twin for everything. According to the author, the value of digital twin comes from purposely introducing the DIKW hierarchy into a dumb physical world and enabling possible IT processing to create more smart products and factories for digital transformation. Based on this perspective, we think back the cultural and knowledge domain and can simply find there are already rich and native DIWK contents behind. The key is how to organize effectively these resources and exhibit them clearly and vividly. In turn, more valuable smart cultural/knowledge products and services can be built and rapidly disseminated at large scale over the Internet. In this sense, applying digital twin in the cultural and knowledge domain would be much simpler and easier than in the industrial domain. We will demonstrate such claim in this paper with a universal methodology plus a set of prototype applications.
doi:10.12783/dtcse/cscme2019/32542 fatcat:ogiyejesdrhtbjvwb34lekqnci