Digital Twins: Emergence, IoT as an Enabler and Related Technologies

This report provides an overview of Digital Twins, virtual representations of physical entities, and their evolution, tracing back to the ENIAC computer. It highlights the emergence of Digital Twins and the role of the Internet of Things (IoT) as a key enabler. The report discusses how IoT, along with technologies like 5G, LiFi, and machine talking, facilitates the creation and optimization of Digital Twins. It emphasizes how these technologies enable real-time simulations and data sharing, leading to advancements in various industries. Additionally, the report references several books and journals to support its findings, providing a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.

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.

HIGHLIGHT THE EMERGENCE OF DIGITAL TWIN AND HOW IOT ACT AS AN
ENABLER.
 Digital Twin is changing the way that creates and optimize technology in IOT.
 It is advancement that can be defined as virtual replicas of physical devices and IT
pros can be used to run simulation before actual device are built and deployed.
 This is advancement that is also changing that how technologies such as IOT, AI and
analytics are optimized.
 Henceforth, Digital Twin is a virtual representation that matches the physical
attributes of a “real world” factory, production line, product or component in real
time, through the use of sensors, cameras, and other data collection techniques.

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 digitalization.
 There are basically three technology and
enablers in IOT which are 5G, new visible
light solutions (Lifi) and machine talking

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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 talking- 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.