Apart from being a relatively comprehensive speech by the acknowledged “father” of digital twins, this video is of benefit to Nextspace Partners because it discusses the close relationship between IoT and digital twins, and because of a few comments Dr Grieves makes (paraphrased):

• Aim your digital twin strategy at the computing power that will come, not for today’s technical ability
• The need for fast cycle times – IoT capturing data from the real world and feeding it into the virtual world
• The need for integration of IOT and AR to generate actionable information and comparison – sensing where things are at (with the asset but also its environment) and measuring the gap between that and where we want things to be (our goals)
• The need to cause action – either responding autonomously through the twin orby communicating getting humans to act
• The need for cybersecurity - a massive concern

Dr Grieves says digital twins should address three key use case categories:

• Interrogative(giving me information)
• Predictive (giving potential futures with % probabilities so we can avoid adverse events)
• Learning(from previous asset and environment analysis, seeking to identify correlation and causation)

Finally, DrGrieves talks about the various development stages of digital twins and enabling technology since the early 2000’s. He labels our current phases as “Conceptual”and says that data interoperability is the greatest challenge right now. Beyond that he sees the next digital twin phase as “Replication” which is essentially the federation of digital twins.

For more from Dr Grieve’s you can follow him on LinkedIn