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It is also important to note that
currently the cheapest option
obtained based on data from
various digital simulation tools,
using digital twin technologies,
does not always mean the
cheapest option during a certain
period of a facility operating in
the real world.
Why Is Data So
Valuable In Digital
Twin Technology?
As you could read in one of my
previous articles "What Are The
Digital Twins?", we defined digital
twins as a digital replica of
physical data, processes, systems,
and a digital simulation of reality
that can be used for a variety of
purposes.
This practically means that we
can test a digital replica of a
real-world object for various
dynamic influences without any
damage to the physical object
itself and make perfectly
objective decisions based on
comparing different results
obtained from simulations in
digital twin models.
If we take into account that
simulations on a digital replica of
real-world objects can be done an
unlimited number of times and in
different variants, the information
and data generated from the
various options and solutions
considered allow us great
savings. Also, the data allow us to
make decisions based on data
obtained from simulations, ie.
Data-Driven Decisions.
For example, if the designer's
criterion is to choose the
cheapest chiller for the investor,
without considering energy
consumption during his work as a
very important criterion in
choosing building equipment, the
investor would achieve certain
savings in the first years of
operation due to lower costs of
purchase and chillers installation,
but in the following years, the
chiller operation would lose
significant funds due to higher
consumption of electricity for
heating and cooling, and thus
higher expenditures to pay the
bills for consumed electricity.
I hope that with the help of a few
previous examples I gave you an
idea of why the data are
generated by different
simulations and processed in
order to optimize operating costs,
very valuable in digital twin
technology, and have great
potential to bring significant
savings to the investor.
Of course, one of the important
parameters in digital twin
technology is the way in which
information and data are
generated, processed, and
visualized, which you are going to
find out more about below.
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