Digital Twin for Everything: Some Pilot Studies

Abstract

Digital twin for everything has been proposed as a novel idea to implement digital transformation in the 4.0 era. Beyond the industrial applications, more 70 experimental prototype systems have been developed by the author so far to demonstrate its feasibility and general availability for applying digital twins in cultural heritage and knowledge dissemination areas. A universal methodology is developed based on knowledge-graphs and future Internet technologies to implement a goal-oriented resources integration and provide high-value cultural and knowledge cloud services, which can be co-created and shared by people, towards building an ideal cultural and knowledge ecosystem.