Global Seminar | Powering Digital Urban Twins

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Powering Digital Urban Twins

Digital Urban Twins are digital representations of cities that allow us to conduct simulation experiments, to ask what-if questions and to investigate in-silico what would otherwise not be (easily) possible in the physical world. Cities are complex constructs and so are their digital twins. A city consists of many interacting urban elements (e.g. people, the organisations they form, the infrastructure they build and use, and the environment).

Depending on the purpose of the digital urban twin, there is a need for corresponding computational models for all the relevant urban elements. Just like their counterparts in the physical world, these models also interact with each other on various levels. They form what we call a ‘federation of models’ - the underlying machine that is the digital urban twin. Building such a federation of models is challenging. The
Simulation-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach, developed at SEC as part of the Cooling Singapore project, helps to overcome these challenges. It has the potential to enable researchers to use digital urban twins in ways not currently possible, giving rise to new applications, interesting research and valuable insights. This talk will introduce the SaaS approach and how it is applied in the context of a Digital Urban Climate Twin for Singapore.

Join us to find out how the SaaS approach can also power your digital urban twins.

Presenter

Dr Heiko Aydt

Lead Investigator of Digital Urban Climate Twin R&D at Cooling Singapore
Co-Investigator of Circular Future Cities at FCL Global