Digital Twins: A Comprehensive Analysis of Technologies

This report provides an overview of Digital Twins, starting with their fundamental concepts and evolution, including the emergence of digital technology from ENIAC to the present. The report explores the impact of IoT, 5G, and various software platforms in enabling and enhancing the capabilities of Digital Twins. It highlights the integration of these technologies and their role in industrial digitalization. The report also discusses the importance of machine learning and data science within the context of Digital Twins, providing a comprehensive analysis of the technologies, applications, and future prospects of Digital Twins in various industries. References to relevant books and journals are included to support the findings.

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.