15 May 2023

What can your home town do with digital twins?

We are sitting on a goldmine of data, but how do we go about using it intelligently? Digital twinning is a technology that helps us harness data to better understand and answer issues. A digital twin is a virtual replica, which helps to simulate, monitor and develop. Simona Orzan is a lecturer-researcher at Fontys ICT and deals with its application to urban issues.

Den Bosch

Erdinç Saçan hosts a discussion on what a digital twin actually is and how to deploy it for a Smart City, for example his hometown of Den Bosch. Digital twins could potentially help to work out crowd management, to prepare city planning, but also to measure air quality. The possibilities are endless, but what is cost-effective and feasible?

Modelling

Many issues do not require an absolute digital twin, a complete representation, but an applied representation. A model of the relevant reality. Simona is working on several projects exploring its possibilities. You can hear more about that in the 2nd episode of Updates Available Online.

Updates Available Online

Updates Available Online is part of the knowledge sessions at the Fontys ICT InnovationLab at Strijp-T, titled Updates Available. In these, experts are invited to share their knowledge, but also to hear what is going on within specific themes. More information can be found here.

More news

16 January 2025
VisioVR: A Virtual Reality game for students with multiple disabilities
VisioVR: A Virtual Reality game for students with multiple disabilities

How do you make virtual reality accessible for students with visual impairments? This was the challenge taken on by ICT students ...

Read more
17 November 2024
Fontys ICT schittert tijdens GLOW Academy Awards 2024
Fontys ICT schittert tijdens GLOW Academy Awards 2024

Op zaterdag 16 november vond de uitreiking plaats van de GLOW Academy Awards 2024, een jaarlijks evenement waar de beste ...

Read more
11 November 2024
De Weekendschool op bezoek, volle bak op het InnovationLab op zondagochtend
De Weekendschool op bezoek, volle bak op het InnovationLab op zondagochtend

Zondag 10 november was De Weekendschool voor de tweede zondag op een rij te gast op het InnovationLab. Een groep van 50 ...

Read more
To all newsitems
Curious to learn more about the InnovationLab? Get in touch!

Let's talk!