DTInsight: A Tool for Explicit, Interactive, and Continuous Digital Twin Reporting

TL;DR

DTInsight is an automated tool that provides continuous, interactive, and detailed reporting of digital twins, enhancing stakeholder understanding through visualization, summaries, and integration into CI/CD pipelines.

Contribution

The paper introduces DTInsight, a novel tool and methodology for continuous digital twin reporting with interactive visualization and automated summaries.

Findings

Provides up-to-date digital twin reports

Integrates reporting into CI/CD pipelines

Enhances stakeholder understanding of DTs

Abstract

With Digital Twin (DT) construction and evolution occurring over time, stakeholders require tools to understand the current characteristics and conceptual architecture of the system at any time. We introduce DTInsight, a systematic and automated tool and methodology for producing continuous reporting for DTs. DTInsight offers three key features: (a) an interactive conceptual architecture visualization of DTs; (b) generation of summaries of DT characteristics based on ontological data; and (c) integration of these outputs into a reporting page within a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. Given a modeled description of the DT aligning to our DT Description Framework (DTDF), DTInsight enables up-to-date and detailed reports for enhanced stakeholder understanding.