When technology helps ensure a city’s sustainability

Stuttgart is getting a digital twin in order to analyse the city’s metrics in real time. — AFP Relaxnews

Stuttgart, Germany, is investing in a digital twin to analyse a wide range of practical and environmental data in real time. The goal is to monitor the evolution of the city and prepare it for future climate, energy or public health crises.

The concept of a digital twin consists of recreating, in virtual form, an existing infrastructure, in this case an entire city, in order to study its behaviour and seek to optimise its performance and predict possible dysfunctions or catastrophes. Currently, projects of this kind are multiplying as a means of optimizing urban planning. After Asia and the United States, the phenomenon is now spreading to Europe.