Digital Twin Spin

Another episode of I Read The News Today Oh Boy

InSAR Earth Eye - Some folks are thinking about twins in space A Research Profile looks at Application of satellite technology in infrastructure monitoring using Satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) monitoring. The site is that of a 5 year UK program that dutifully shut down when it reached five years. Good sports, what? From <https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news>

ESG could be twinish. Since it monitors systems. In realtime maybe. And even as a RT market. ESG has its failings. Its honest critics who see Green washing is real. ESG also has its enemies – and these include Oil Loving Texans. A vision of the future is blurred when the Texas Public Policy Foundation, backed by oil and gas companies and Republican donors, enters the fray. From <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/climate/texas-public-policy-foundation-climate-change.html>

 

Supply chain twin view – From the MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation lab. In Sloan Review it is written: “Digital twins observe their physical environment through a network of sensors that dynamically gather real-time data; they evolve by learning from this information and its contexts and by interacting with humans, devices, and other networked digital twins. Such a capability makes digital twins active and social tools, because they can continuously communicate and collaborate with their associated physical and digital objects and with humans. Digital twins support end-to-end visibility and traceability, enabling supply chain practitioners to spot patterns of highly complex and dynamic behavior.” From <https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-twins-in-supply-chains/>

 

Twins go to the city, or let’s get civil - At Columbia University, a three-year project — Hybrid Twins for Urban Transportation: From Intersections to Citywide Management — that began in 2021 is working to create a digital twin of key intersections and other locations in New York City. It is not alone. Other civil engineering projects involving digital twins include a computer model being created of the Houston water system and a sensor-based, real-time decision-support system used by the city of South Bend, Indiana, to better understand the hydraulic conditions in its sewer system. There’s more:  Civil engineers and others have also formed a new organization, the Coalition for Smarter Infrastructure Investments, to promote greater use of digital technology in infrastructure projects. From <https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2022/09/in-nyc-digital-twin-project-tackles-traffic> JV