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Next-Generation Digital Twins and Situational Awareness
Tables of Content
Topic Outline
Digital Twins & Next-Generation
Digital Twins – what is what
Digital Twins market summary
Digital Twins in manufacturing
Values and Benefits
Next-Generation
Digital Twins & Situational Awareness
BaseN Platform
Distributed sectors and the platform's use
cases
Values in working with BaseN
Advantages on BaseN
Work with BaseN
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Digital Twins & Next-Generation
Digital Twins – what is what
Digital Twins are virtual replicas of a physical object, offering insights into its behavior or performance. It provides information about how the object operates, enabling better decision-making and optimization. They are essentially passive observers, collecting data and allowing us to monitor and analyze the physical objects.
Next-Generation
Digital Twins possess active control and influence over their real-world counterparts. These virtual masters interact, optimize, and autonomously make decisions to enhance the performance of physical objects. They can receive real-time data from sensors, process it, and send instructions back to real-world objects. Next-Generation Digital Twins can go further by leveraging Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning to dynamically adjust the physical objects' behaviors. This enables adaptability to changing conditions, operations optimization in real-time, and proactive responses.
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94%
of all IoT Platforms will contain some form of digital twinning capability by 2028
of organizations consider Digital Twin technology an important tool for improving sustainability *
all Digital Twin projects globally are for prediction and simulation at the system level * of executives across a broad spectrum of industry verticals understand the benefits of digital twinning *
them plan to incorporate within their operations by 2028 * 57% 58% 42% 59%
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*Sources: Şimşek,H.(2023).Discovertop8digitaltwintrendsin2023.AIMultiple.https://research.aimultiple.com/digital-twin-trends/ DigitalTwinMarketAnalysisSize,Share,AndForecast2023-2035.(n.d.).https://www.researchnester.com/reports/digital-twin-market/4226 Ltd, R. a. M. (n.d.). Digital Twins Marke by Technology, twinning Type, Cyber-to-Physical Solutions, use cases and applications in industry verticals 2023 - 2028. Research and Markets Ltd 2023. https://www.researchandmarkets.com/report/digital-twin
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Digital Twins are growing
Digital Twins
in Manufacturing
Enhancing operational efficiency and performance
Utilizing Digital Twins for error detection and performance optimization
Predictive maintenance and capacity planning through virtual monitoring
Sustainability tracking and fine-grained control
Enabling Digital Twin infrastructure for sustainable production and material flow analysis
Understanding usage, lifecycles, and tracking of physical objects
Advancing manufacturing performance and efficiency
Leveraging Digital Twins to improve production performance and process control
3D modeling and testing for machine implementation and optimization
Accelerating time-to-market and machine setup
Optimizing production processes using Digital Twins
Shortening machine setup and preparation timelines
Data management and insights
Handling massive amounts of data for real-time insights
Tailoring data collection and analysis to specific use cases
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Next-Generation
Digital Twins in
Manufacturing
Expanding the definition of Digital Twins
Various interpretations and applications of Digital Twins beyond virtual replicas dynamic
Viewing Digital Twins as the primary merchandise and source of actionable insights
Meeting customer needs through the integration of Digital Twins and physical products
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Values and Benefits
The Digital Twin of a product provides manufacturers with valuable insights into consumer behavior, going beyond personalized advertising. It enables constant dialogue and sustainable customer relationships by understanding usage patterns and feedback. Manufacturers can create and design physical products or add-ons based on Digital Twin insights, proactively meeting customer needs. This paves the way for an Everything-as-a-Service business model, where manufacturers offer tailored services and solutions.
For instance, consider a traditional car manufacturer transforming into a provider of connected car services. Using the power of Digital Twins, these manufacturers can introduce innovative applications or services that deliver personalized recommendations based on user behaviors. This shift in business model opens up fresh revenue channels, like monthly subscriptions for premium features and services. Furthermore, it empowers manufacturers to design vehicles tailored to real-time customer preferences, granting them a significant edge in the fiercely competitive automotive market.
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Values and Benefits
Digital Twins enable product lifecycle management by gathering and storing data on a reliable platform. Manufacturers can optimize products throughout their lifecycles, ensure sustainable management, and perform predictive maintenance based on realtime data. In complex product development processes involving multiple stakeholders, Digital Twins serve different purposes. Engineers optimize product designs, while manufacturers address bottlenecks to optimize costs and resources. Multi-tenancy and multi-vendor capabilities of a Digital Twin platform will make it a compelling solution for businesses in various industries.
Multi-tenancy brings cost efficiency as multiple users or tenants can share the same platform, reducing infrastructure and maintenance costs significantly. Multi-tenancy further enables easy expansion to accommodate new users or increase data volumes without compromising performance and allows for collaboration among multiple tenants. This fosters innovation and knowledge sharing.
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Values and Benefits
Customization is a crucial aspect as well, allowing each tenant to tailor their Digital Twin instance according to their specific needs and requirements.
With multi-vendor capability, Digital Twin platforms can offer vendor flexibility, providing freedom of choice to integrate with a wide range of devices, sensors, and systems. This means businesses are not tied to a single vendor, ensuring flexibility and future-proofing against changing requirements. The ability to avoid vendor lock-in is invaluable, enabling businesses to retain control over their digital transformation journey and adapt to new technologies and partners as needed.
The diversity of tenants and vendors fosters an ecosystem of innovation, encouraging continuous platform improvement. This collaborative environment drives advancements and keeps Digital Twins at the forefront of technological developments.
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BaseN and Next-Generation Digital Twins
At BaseN, we believe that the true power of Digital Twins lies in their ability to serve as master objects, encompassing all programming and information needed to build and operate their physical counterparts. By incorporating AI and adaptive algorithms, the potential of Next-Generation Digital Twins is unlocked.
Consider purchasing a car. Currently, we receive digital assets to accompany the physical vehicle. However, BaseN envisions a future where establishing long-lasting customer relationships and sustainable businesses rely on Digital Twins. Imagine having a Digital Twin of your car, containing data on your driving habits, service history, and personalized information that reflects your real needs. Augmented with AI, this Digital Twin becomes the foundation for a tailored physical twin that perfectly aligns with your driving requirements.
In this future, Digital Twins become the key to seamless customer experiences and the foundation for personalized products and services. The possibilities are endless, and BaseN is at the forefront of unleashing the potential of Digital Twins.
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In an increasingly interconnected and dynamic world, situational awareness is not just a competitive advantage—it is a necessity.
As a mission-critical service provider, we understand the paramount importance of situational awareness for both physical and digital assets. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, achieving situational awareness has become increasingly challenging, particularly with the growing complexity and interdependence of systems in the era of cloudification.
At BaseN, we leverage our expertise and advanced technologies to provide businesses with real-time insights into their assets, enabling them to navigate the intricacies of their operations with confidence.
By embracing situational awareness, businesses can unlock a multitude of benefits. They gain the agility to make informed decisions swiftly, the ability to proactively identify and address risks, and the power to optimize their resources for maximum efficiency. Moreover, situational awareness empowers businesses to deliver exceptional customer experiences, foster innovation, and effectively respond to crises.
Next-Generation
Digital Twins
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Watch how situational awareness is achieved on BaseN Platform
Situational Awareness
Next-Generation Digital Twins: Redefining Industries
Accelerated time-to-market, continuous product and system enhancements, and significant cost savings
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Predictive maintenance
Reduce downtime, extend the life of products and systems, and improve overall reliability
03 Performance monitoring and control
01 Design optimization Better product performance, and improve safety
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Situational awareness
By having Next-Generation Digital Twins of every business aspect, businesses obtain a helicopter view of their operations, identify potential vulnerabilities, and drive towards having a full situational awareness – a holistic understanding of the business.
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Situational awareness
Situational awareness refers to having a comprehensive understanding of the current state of affairs in a given environment or context. It involves gathering and analyzing relevant information, recognizing patterns, and being aware of potential risks, opportunities, and changes.
Situational awareness is beneficial for a business' proactive decision-making process, risk management, competitive advantage, resource allocation, and crisis management.
It is essential for companies to navigate complex and dynamic environments. It empowers them to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, optimize operations, enhance customer experience, drive innovation, manage crises, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve their strategic objectives.
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BaseN Platform - a standardized platform for Digital Twins
BaseN Platform has been the foundation for businesses to innovate and the base for their sustainability. We at BaseN have over 20 years of experience creating situational awareness for any business with Digital Twins, placing us in a unique position.
Data analytics and insights
Exceptionally flexiblecustomized solutions
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Scalability Integration capabilities
Achieve your goals faster on BaseN Platform
All of our data sciences and analytics capabilities are included by default.
We help you manage the data produced. You can create algorithms for complex data and use our Machine Learning toolbox for collected data.
BaseN Platform can be used as a whole, or our universal APIs can be connected to your systems and you can build customized solutions you want on top of the platform.
The platform enables commercial scalability, handling countless connected products economically.
You can deploy global products (Minimum Viable Product) with us within a quick timeline and then scale with ease into a robust solution.
When a customer has a solution half-developed themselves or on top of another provider, we can create bridges to these existing systems in a very flexible way so that no good data that was collected to other systems gets lost.
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BaseN Platform
A standardized platform for Digital Twins: providing you with a common framework of protocols that facilitate the creation, integration, and interoperability of digital twin models and systems across different domains and applications
Providing mission critical situational awareness for these distributed sectors:
Distributed Networks
BaseN Platform provides internal and external transparency on reliability and performance of ICT infrastructure (telecom, large company LAN, public services). The current situation and its development are assessed through environmental data, service performance, energy supply, and individual endcustomer service levels.
Distributed Industrial Assets
Any measurements that contain information about the asset’s health and performance can be collected and analyzed on BaseN Platform. In addition, environmental parameters, and if necessary location of the asset can be tracked and used to set the equipment data in context.
Distributed Site Management
BaseN Platform provides a near real-time view of all your assets, including status and location. This enables you to optimize situations in real time having full insight. In case of emergency, full awareness helps human operators to react.
Distributed Infrastructures
Through the highly available and resilient BaseN Platform, the customer always has a full view of the health and utilization of the distributed assets and can provide informative dashboards to their own customers. The operator is thus aware of the current status and usage of the infrastructure and can provide transparency to the users on where alternatives are available in case an asset is fully occupied.
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Distributed Networks
BaseN Platform
A standardized platform for Digital Twins: providing you with a common framework of protocols that facilitate the creation, integration, and interoperability of digital twin models and systems across different domains and applications
Customer use cases examples:
Distributed Industrial Assets
Since 2007, BaseN provides T-Mobile with the platform for performance monitoring of modern SD (softwaredefined) networks, including data services and customer care levels. T-Mobile’s engineers as well as their customers monitor the network in real time on BaseN Platform, through easily understandable, transparent graphs.
Distributed Site Management
In 2016, CrewSight, the first construction site Digital Twin, was enabled on BaseN for Trimble (now ASSA ABLOY). Each site is a dynamic digital entity, offering realtime visibility and transparency on where and how many individuals are on or around the premises, crucial for safety in emergencies.
Norsepower Rotor Sails relies on BaseN's platform and powerful analytics for complex parameters of the rotor sails on large vessels, reducing fuel consumption. The data collected in the Digital Twin can continuously be analyzed for performance optimization and design improvement.
Distributed Infrastructures
BaseN enables InterControl to have full situational awareness of their EV-Chargers network distributed all over Finland. The collected data (quality, endurance, usage) is furthermore used for R&D improvements. The Digital Twin concept of each charging station also allows for optimized energy management and the offering of preventive maintenance plans, enabling InterControl to offer advanced SLAs to their customers.
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Product
Better product offering
Short time to market
Reduced product lifecycle cost through optimal maintenance
Availability
Higher availability through awareness of failure situations
Increased staff productivity through focus on the core issues, leading to higher availability of resources
Increased resilience and systems’ availability through critical situational awareness
Productivity
Increased productivity by determining the most important issues to concentrate resources on
Reduce downtime by minimizing interruptions
Identify areas for efficiency improvement over time
Operations
Regulations compliance thanks to automated reporting possibilities
Inventory/theft prevention
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Advantages
Unprecedented scalability
Digital Twins often involve processing data from millions or even tens of millions of virtual replicas of devices and objects in real-time, a task that our fully distributed architecture handles with ease.
Fully owned Intellectual Property Rights
BaseN Platform does not use any third-party commercial licenses. This enables unprecedented commercial scalability for billions of things.
Fault tolerance, security, and no down-times
Digital Twin communications are often mission-critical, and with our fully resilient and secure architecture, we can ensure that data is never lost, missed, or misused. Count on us for uninterrupted operations.
Deep real-time analysis so you focus on what matters
Customizable analysis ensures meaningful notifications by combining relevant data types into alarms and events. Root cause analysis prevents alarm-storm in bigger failure cases.
Security, data ownership and compliance
The platform is fully GDPR compliant, ensuring that your data is handled with the highest level of privacy and security. You retain complete ownership of your data, code, and intellectual property developed on our platform. You have full control over your digital assets and domain knowledge.
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Collaborating process with us
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Project Approach and Support
Agile methodology
Internally, we use a lightweight iterative model for software development, with incremental upgrades of the platform guaranteeing that the customer is always working with the latest software. For customer cases, we adapt to whatever model the customer is familiar with. We can operate either as an independent team or collaborate with the customer's own team. Project management can be supplied by either team. Our development team is also happy to help with the planning and architecture-building phases, having done that with many customers and problem domains.
For the deployment of infrastructure, we will utilize the traditional project management approach, consisting of initiation, planning/design, execution, and construction, monitoring/controlling, and completion phases.
We have and continue to participate in numerous mission-critical projects of several multinational corporations. We provide qualified engineering support, development resources, and 24x7 troubleshooting to our customers.
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Our Experts
Get started with Digital Twins by talking to us today!
Jukka Paananen
jukkap@basen.net
Michael Hartman
mhartman@basen.net
Juudit Ojansivu
jojansiv@basen.net
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