Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS): A Platform for Digital Twin Developers and Users

TL;DR

This paper introduces a Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS) platform that simplifies digital twin creation and management by automating asset handling, infrastructure, and communication, enabling users to focus on digital twin utilization.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel DTaaS framework that automates digital twin asset management, creation, and deployment, facilitating easier access and reuse for developers and users.

Findings

Automates digital twin asset management and deployment.

Enables users to operate at the digital twin level, delegating infrastructure tasks.

Supports creation of digital twins from reusable assets.

Abstract

Establishing digital twins is a non-trivial endeavour especially when users face significant challenges in creating them from scratch. Ready availability of reusable models, data and tool assets, can help with creation and use of digital twins. A number of digital twin frameworks exist to facilitate creation and use of digital twins. In this paper we propose a digital twin framework to author digital twin assets, create digital twins from reusable assets and make the digital twins available as a service to other users. The proposed framework automates the management of reusable assets, storage, provision of compute infrastructure, communication and monitoring tasks. The users operate at the level of digital twins and delegate rest of the work to the digital twin as a service framework.