DIGITAL TWIN
Framework · Interactive edition

The digital twin, in three dimensions

A digital twin is a virtual twin of an infrastructure asset. It gathers data from the built environment at a set frequency and visualizes computational models at a chosen fidelity. Below, the framework's core figures are rebuilt as things you can move.

PHYSICAL ASSET
DIGITAL TWIN
Drag to orbit · data streams from asset to twin
01 · Foundations

Five foundations every digital twin stands on

A solution is a digital twin only when it rests on all five. Click a layer to bring it forward.

02 · Figure 1

Scaling up individual units of a digital twin

A single twin is only the start. Connect units and an ecosystem of twins can represent a district, a city, or a nation. Step through the scale.

03 · Figure 2

Intelligence nested inside intelligence

Artificial intelligence contains machine learning, which contains deep learning, within which generative AI now sits. Click a ring.

04 · Enabling technologies

Five technologies feed the twin

No digital twin is a stand-alone technology. It is a combination that assimilates data into insight. Click a node to see how it feeds the twin.

Drag to rotate · click a node

05 · Maturity

Five levels, each one climbs higher

No twin starts fully mature. As layers of technology are added it aggregates more data and acts more intelligently. Click a step.

Start lite

A twin does not have to be complete to be useful. It has to be started.

A Digital Twin Lite proves value early in the asset life cycle, before the physical counterpart is even built. It stays visible, connected, and queryable so every asset in a portfolio can report how it is actually behaving today.

See the sensors that feed it