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Microsoft ready to introduce digital twin project in Azerbaijan

Economy Materials 31 August 2021 19:41 (UTC +04:00)
Microsoft ready to introduce digital twin project in Azerbaijan

BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 31

By Sadraddin Aghjayev - Trend:

Microsoft is ready to introduce a "digital twin" project in Azerbaijan, General Manager of Microsoft Azerbaijan Gachay Mirzayev told Trend.

“The "digital twin" concept is part of the fourth industrial revolution and is designed to help enterprises detect physical problems faster and produce better products,” Mirzayev added.

“If one talks about smart things (including smart cities, smart villages), then digital twin solutions are more than just a static model,” general manager said. “It reflects the current state of the facility, based on real-time telemetry provided by sensors of the Internet of Things (IoT).”

“The "digital twin" not only reflects the current state of an object being viewed in real time, it contains such deep understanding of the phenomenon that it can predict its future based on the current data,” Mirzayev added.

“The predictive capabilities are the hallmark of the "digital twin" as opposed to the previous generation of technologies for monitoring the current state of an object,” general manager said.

“One of the classic examples of digital twins is the concept of a “smart building”,” Mirzayev said. “Imagine a conference room with numerous IoT devices, namely, occupancy sensor, entrance / exit sensor, smart thermostat, smart furniture (capable of detecting if seats are occupied), a conference camera that can count the number of attendees, etc.”

“All these technologies are very valuable, but we may need an answer to a simple question,” general manager said. "Is the conference room occupied or vacant?" Therefore, we can create a "digital twin" of this conference room, which will collect data from all devices and will be able to describe the room at a higher level of abstraction from the domain of the "smart building", which helps to answer the original question.”

“We can go further up the “smart building” hierarchy and collect all rooms on one floor into a “digital twin” of that floor, for example, to control heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems,” Mirzayev said. “Then, we move to the "digital twin" level of the entire building, where important issues of protection and safety will be regulated.”

“There is also a dynamic aspect of digital twins, namely, elevators that can move from one floor to another, and people who move from one room to another or share jobs," general manager said.

“The elevator load and demand for rooms will be predicted depending on the time of day and day of the week based on the data collected by the "digital twins",” Mirzayev said.

"This example demonstrates that digital twins have been created to achieve specific business goals: for example, to improve the efficiency of processes or systems by tracking all failures before starting, to find a problem or vulnerability before production starts or the facility goes into operation, create long-term forecasts and plan the development of a company or a product for years to come,” general manager said.

“Moreover, if business goals change, the same real-world object will have a different "digital twin," the general manager said.

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