Smart City Dispatch · Glossary
Digital twin
A digital representation of a specific physical asset, process, system, or environment that is connected to relevant real-world data and used to understand, predict, simulate, or improve its behavior.
Digital twin
A digital representation of a specific physical asset, process, system, or environment that is connected to relevant real-world data and used to understand, predict, simulate, or improve its behavior.
Smart-city relevance: The strongest twins maintain state linkage to the real system; a static 3-D model alone is not necessarily a digital twin.
Related: Simulation; state estimation