Digital Twins: The Convergence of Multimedia Technologies

This presentation explores the concept of digital twins, which are virtual representations of living or non-living things. It discusses the emergence of digital twins in different stages, from the invention of the first electronic computer to the development of the World Wide Web. The presentation also highlights the role of IoT as an enabler of digital twins and the technologies that support it, such as 5G, machine taking, and LiFi. References to relevant books and journals are provided for further reading.

Digital Twins

DIGITAL TWINS
 A digital twin is virtual technology that is blueprint of living or non living thing. It
includes process, people, system and devices, etc. which is used for different purpose. (El
Saddik, 2018)
 Emergence of DT- there are four stages in this which is as follows :

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 1946- ENIAC- it was first electronic
computer that was used for digital
purpose. This has first invention in
digital era (Canedo, 2016).
 1981- PC- IBM developed first
personal computer. It emerged as
managing software and systems as DT.

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 1991- WWW- world wide web was developed and used as information system. here, data
was transferred via use of protocols such as HTTP.
 2000’s New IT- This resulted in emerging of new and advance technology. It entirely
revolutionized global world (Tao and Qi, 019). the data and info was shared in wide areas
and with high speed and efficiency.

Internet of Things as the DT enabler
 IoT has resulted in enabling DT. This is
because it has enabled in using new
technologies and software applications.
also, connectivity of network is increasing
in IoT (Debroy and Babu, 2017).
 Many new technologies emerged such as
IOT, cloud computing, DT, etc. here, goal
is to industry ecology digitalisation.
 There are basically three technology and
enablers in IOT which are

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 5G – It is next gen DT integrated with IoT. it is
wireless communication network and uses IoT
sensors with higher radio speeds but from the
ability to exchange data wirelessly (Bruynseels
and van den Hoven, 2018) .
 Machine taking- The rise of MTC in
heterogeneous devices collected together to
deliver new services.

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 New visible light solutions (Lifi)- LiFi can be used for industrial and commercial settings
in which IoT devices direct illumination path.
 Software platforms – In IoT it requires to maintain an effective software application to
allow in smooth processing and sharing of data (Batty, 2018).

REFERENCES
Books and journals
 El Saddik, A., 2018. Digital twins: The convergence of multimedia technologies. IEEE
MultiMedia, 25(2), pp.87-92.
 Canedo, A., 2016, October. Industrial IoT lifecycle via digital twins. In Proceedings of the Eleventh
IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (pp. 1-
1).
 Schluse, M. and Rossmann, J., 2018. Experimentable digital twins—Streamlining simulation-based
systems engineering for industry 4.0. IEEE Transactions on industrial informatics, 14(4), pp.1722-1731.
 Debroy, T. and Babu, S.S., 2017. Building digital twins of 3D printing machines. Scripta Materialia, 135,
pp.119-124.
 Batty, M., 2018. Digital twins.
 Tao, F. and Qi, Q., 2019. Make more digital twins.
 Bruynseels, K. and van den Hoven, J., 2018. Digital twins in health care: ethical implications of an
emerging engineering paradigm. Frontiers in genetics, 9, p.31.