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How to Create a Digital Twin of a Building (+ Tool to Build Accurate Virtual Replicas)
Posted by: Efstratios - Stratos Lamprinos Vlattas on: 7/25/2024 12:00:00 AM
Lastly Updated on: 7/20/2024 4:52:00 AM
Digital twin technology is finding powerful use cases across industries. In the manufacturing and AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) sectors, digital twins of buildings give teams a deeper understanding of their physical space across its lifecycle — from initial designs to construction progress, then ongoing use and maintenance. A digital twin of a building is an immersive 3D virtual replica of a physical property. At the most basic step,
Matterport digital twins are generated from photos by AI to render dimensionally accurate, navigable models of the real world. The term digital twin is very broad, though, and can also refer to highly integrated IoT (Internet of Things) and systems data that offer real-time and even predictive modeling based on the information plumbed into them.
Examples include sensor data like temperature or moisture, RFID data like employee foot traffic and badge entry, and geolocation tracking of vehicles or supplies. Ideally, the two are used in harmony so that the people running businesses and making decisions can see the integrated system information they need in the context of the physical space it’s measuring to make well-informed and fast decisions.