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9. FiWare FiWare is an open platform, started with EU funds, targeting various areas, including Smart Cities. It aims at providing an environment for developing and operating services in an open and reusable ways (do not reinvent the wheel!). Digital Twins are at the core of the architecture and the …

The  University of Toronto is  among the few that  has a full course on Digital Twins for Intelligent Buildings targeting undergraduates.  This shouldn’t be a surprise since Toronto is among the cities that have taken the decision to adopt Digital Twins to monitor and manage the city, and its infrastructures. …

Cognitive Digital Twins A Digital Twin, as explained in the previous posts, is the sum of three data sets: one representing the model of the physical entity one representing the current status of the physical entity one recording the history of the physical entity, including the relations it had (like …

Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution We are already in the path of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the one characterised by a merging of the physical, digital and -at least for some- biological world. Personally I tend to limit the characterisation to the merging of physical and digital leaving the merging …

World-wide and Vertical-specific platforms The Digital Platforms are for the Digital Transformation what the power lines, highways, railways, ships (and ports, ship-lanes) were for the industrial transformation: they provide the infrastructures supporting the value chain and each player on the value chain. However, the digital platforms have some important difference …

4. Smart Cities platforms I addressed industry platforms in the last posts noting the multitude of data that are created by industry processes and in perspective by the products as they will be used. I also pointed out the crucial role played by Digital Twins in that context (as Digital …

Let’s now consider Digital Platforms designed for specific application areas, starting with Smart Cities. Just to point out the interest existing in this area a search on Google (on February 11th) returned over 200 million references! At the Smart City Expo World Conference (Nov 2018 in Barcelona) the theme was …

Sensors are becoming ubiquitous and they are being deployed by the thousands every day. Each of these sensors is able to detect a specific parameter of its surrounding and they are deployed with a specific goal in mind by an interested party. Although a city already has tens of thousands …

Production processing (not all of them but a growing number) are evolving in the direction of autonomous systems looking out for opportunity to deliver and ready to change their offer to meet the potential market. The designer remains a very important piece in this but the separation that used to …