Digital Twin for Smart Cities: An Enabler for Large-Scale Enterprise Interoperability

Abstract

In a context of increasingly connected production systems and ambient intelligence, the digital twin is an approach that is becoming increasingly popular to help control and pilot such systems. The interest for the digital twin is to be able to meet a need for modeling and piloting as close as possible to the physical system and a better anticipation of behavior. How, in this context, the question of the composition of digital twins to model a system of systems, where each system already has its own digital twin? This paper examines such a question from the perspective of digital twin for smart cities. The position adopted here is the concept of Digital Industrial Territories, a middleware for large scale interoperability between digital twins of enterprises involved in multiple supply chains (energy, transport, health, etc.). © 2022 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved