High Value Use Cases For Smart Building Digital Twins
Susan Clarke
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Executive Summary
This report provides real estate and facilities management executives interested in investing in digital twin solutions with an overview of high value use cases. Digital twins are a rapidly evolving software category in the smart building market that provide a single pane of glass view into operations and tools to perform advanced analysis. Over the past two years, the technology has started to break out of the pilot phase with a wave of customer implementations and further funding enabling suppliers to pursue growth strategies. The report analyses recent deployments to identify practical and high value applications of digital twin solutions across the building life cycle. The analysis finds that the highest-value applications centre around optimizing design processes, asset maintenance and building energy use by leveraging simulation and advanced analytical tools.Digital Twins Gain Momentum In The Smart Building Market
Graph Databases And Physics-Based Simulations Differentiate Digital Twin Software Solutions
Commercial Building Twins Can Unlock New Insights And Improve Scalability Of Data Analytics
Digital Twins Enable Firms To Push New Boundaries Across Design And Facilities Optimization
Digital Twins Improve Data Collection And Design Processes In The Early Phases Of A Building’s Life Cycle
Digital Twins Usher New Advances Across Asset Management And Energy Optimization
Firms Must Start Their Digital Twin Journey By Reviewing Existing Technology Deployments
Figure 2. Digital Twin High Value Use Cases Along The Building Life Cycle
About the Authors
Susan Clarke
Research Director
Susan leads the Verdantix Smart Buildings practice. Her current research agenda focuses on software solutions for real estate management including integrated workplace managem...
Joy Trinquet
Senior Analyst
Joy is a Senior Analyst at Verdantix, specializing in real estate, facilities and workplace technology, with a particular focus on integrated workplace management systems/conn...
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