Hi everyone,
Digino is back with a new post on Smart Cities. We are convinced that cities will change incredibly fast in the coming years and would like to start with 5 facts about the so-called Smart Cities.
5 Facts about Smart Cities:
1. By 2050, 70% of the global population will live in cities.
2. 180,000 people move into cities a day.
3. 26 global cities will be Smart Cities in 2015. More than 50% will be located in Europe and North America.
4. 80% of Global GDP is generated in cities.
5. The number of cars connected to the Internet worldwide will grow more than six times to 152 million in 2020 from 23 million in 2013.
Let's have a look at how we can use Digital Twins to enhance our urban life! If you would like to get back to the basics of the technology once more, have a look at this short presentation we gave last week.
Today, the scale and complexity of designing, building, monitoring, operating, and maintaining a smart city require advanced concepts of visual solutions that present data and digital simulations in an innovative way. Smart cities’ systems need to show users where things around them are, in a user-friendly way. Advanced visualization platforms such as Digital Twin are required to design, build, monitor, control, operate, and maintain those cities of the future.
When talking about smart cities, the Digital Twins technology represents huge untapped opportunities. From helping urban planners in assisting policymakers in visualizing various insights and information arising from sensors and intelligent systems, digital twins is a powerful decision-making tool. The future smart city will employ a number of purpose-built AI programs and algorithms to process huge amounts of incoming “sensory” data and allow users to unleash new insights coming from citizens and all players of the ecosystem.
Smart cities’ interface allows outsiders to navigate through the city and have a virtual view of the space around them. In additional the aerial view of the city, other relevant information is also made available to the users. Sensors such as cameras and other wireless systems will communicate information about the health and status of the city and its infrastructure. Satellites and spatial platforms will also monitor the city’s atmosphere, pollution levels, with particular attention paid to potential threats from earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters. Additional features such as dimensions, volumes, building material, number of residents and energy usage make of the digital twins’ technology a concept revolutionizing product life cycles and operational optimization.
It goes without saying that the next-generation of visualization platforms will transform the way smart cities are designed, managed, and operated. The infrastructure development process will be digitized and enable a more integrated digital life cycle including smarter design, collaboration, analysis, operations, and data presentation capabilities.
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