LOCAL DIGITAL TWIN
The Living-in.EU initiative defines a Local Digital Twin as:
¨A virtual representation of a city’s physical assets, using data, data analytics and machine learning to provide simulation models that can be updated and changed (real-time) as their physical equivalents change¨
LDT TOOLBOX DESIGN PRINCIPLES
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User Centricity: The Toolbox must support the diverse needs of European cities, allowing for customizable LDT configurations to meet each city’s digital maturity level
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Standards and regulatory compliance, interoperability: All Toolbox components must comply with relevant industry standards, EU regulations, and Living-in. EU principles to ensure consistent functionality and interoperability across EU municipalities
- Open-source technology: The Toolbox shall be built on collaboratively developed, non-proprietary software to ensure accessibility, adaptability and broad reuse
HOW CAN IT HELP
HOW IT WORKS
Four simple steps to enable the benefits of a Digital Twin to support your decision-making and planning processes effectively, and the owners that are responsible of each of them:
The LDT Toolbox is a suite of technological tools that will be used by different types of users, depending on the different purposes that it must fulfil, so different environments adapted to each use has been designed.
SCOPE
EU BUILDING DATABASE
ALGORITHM MODELS
ALL THE EU LDT Tools
The LDT is a cutting-edge, open-source platform designed to mirror the complexities of our cities digitally by integrating real data to simulate, visualise, and predict urban dynamics.
TOOL BY TOOL
Simulate, predict, and innovate
- Synthetic Data Generation: Synthetic data creation for predictive local digital twins.
- Knowledge Layer Integration: Synthetic data solutions for the knowledge layer.
- Marketplace Compatibility: Synthetic data generators compatible with compliant marketplaces.
Maximise the value of your data
- Historical Data Integration: From multiple domains for a comprehensive experimental local digital twin.
- Data Consumption & Brokering: Data acquisition and context brokering facilitation.
- MIM Compliance: Fully compliance with with all capabilities required.
- IoT Data Acquisition: Integrated data from both current and future standard IoT systems.
Integration with cutting-edge capabilities
- Data Space Connection: Seamless data acquisition for local digital twins.
- Marketplace Compatibility: Data spaces creation compatible with marketplaces.
- Geospatial Information: Provide geospatial data in standard formats.
- Federated Data Interaction: With federated data spaces, adhering to current and future standards.
Decision-making empowered by simulation
- Impact Prediction: Outcomes of decisions on your digital twin with experimental accuracy.
- Complete Orchestration: All necessary orchestration features for local digital twins.
- AI & ML Transparency: Transparency and context for AI algorithms and ML models.
- Smart City Integration: Seamlessly interact with and obtain data from smart city services.
Innovation and enhanced predictions
- AI & ML Development: Refined AI algorithms and ML models for intelligent local digital twins.
- Knowledge Layer Integration: AI and ML solutions for the knowledge layer of local digital twins.
- Marketplace Compatibility: AI algorithms and ML models compatible with compliant marketplaces.
Elevate your AI
- ML Model Training: High-performance computing to train ML models for intelligent local digital twins.
- Knowledge Layer Integration: Federated learning solutions for the knowledge layer.
- Marketplace Compatibility: Federated ML models compatible with compliant marketplaces.
Your data into 3D visualizations with ease
- 3D Visaualisations: Predictive 3D interfaces for clear, interactive data insights.
- Visualisation Suite: Essential visualisation features for local digital twins.
- Geospation Insights: Effortlessly visualise geospatial data using advanced mechanisms.
- Analytical Data: Deep insights with analytical visualisations.
Foster community involvement effortlessly
- Community Engagement: Enhanced participation and interaction within community.
- Personal Data Management: Secure and efficient personal data management.
Drive smart community transformation
- Progress Assessment: Your community’s progress in becoming a smart, mature digital twin.
- Ecosystem Indicators: Benchmark city maturity using U4SSC KPIs.
- Resource Impact: Assess impacts on UN Sustainability Development Goals.
- Maturity Evaluation: Smart city maturity and capabilities using current and future standards.
Robust security and compliances
- Access Control: a Zero Trust Model for user and application authorization.
- System integrity: Through user and application authentification.
- GDPR Compliance: Management of city employee user changes efficiently, ensuring compliance with GDPR.
ROADMAP
Available in its first version by June 2026, the EU LDT Toolbox will deliver:
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