Digital Twins for the People!

Synopsis:

Digital Twins are one of the hottest trends in the AECO industry right now, but what exactly are they and how can you create your own Digital Twin? This class will demystify Digital Twins Learn show how it is possible to create your own Digital Twin.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn what Digital Twins are and how they can be used
2. Learn about how it is possible to bring models, sensors, and dashboards together
3. Learn how Digital Twins can be beneficial for designers, owners and users

Body:

“Everyone is talking about Digital Twins, but what exactly are they? What is their purpose? What are the benefits of Digital Twin? What can a Digital Twin do for my project?
This course will prove that Digital Twins are not only for large complex projects to be used exclusively by facilities management departments. They can actually be created for buildings of any size starting at early as the conceptual design phase and they can be used as part of the design process. This course will demonstrate how to plan a Digital Twin for your project, so you can get usable data to inform design decisions. This course will dive into the process of setting up a Digital Twin starting with planning the system though its operation.

Some of the topic covered include:
-What are Digital Twins?
-How do you use a Digital Twin?
-The types of models and documents that can be used.
-The data structure required.
-The types of sensors available.
-Methods for storing the data.
-How to dashboard the data.

This course will prove that you can create a Digital Twin without the need for a huge investment in hardware, software and infrastructure. This class will also demonstrate that you do not need to be an experienced coder or an IT specialist to get a Digital Twin running, so why not start today.”