Digital Twin
A digital twin is a virtual, data-driven model of a physical building or system, used to simulate performance, test scenarios, and support optimisation decisions.
Definition
A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical building or system, continuously updated with real operational data, allowing simulation of different scenarios (equipment changes, schedule adjustments) before implementing them physically. Digital twins are increasingly used in energy management to model the impact of proposed efficiency measures before investment.
Why It Matters
Digital twins reduce the risk of costly building interventions by allowing scenario testing in a virtual model first, though they typically require significant data infrastructure investment to build and maintain.
How ecolyptus Helps
ecolyptus's continuous consumption data can serve as a real-world input feed for building digital twin models, where an organisation has invested in one.