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Title	Urban Digital-Twin Planning For Sustainable Smart Cities: System Architecture, Preliminary Experiments, And Open Challenges
ID_Doc	59928
Authors	Lai C.-C.; Sarkar A.; Dinh P.A.; Gaikwad S.; Hsu C.-H.
Year	2024
Published	MIDD4DT 2024 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Middleware for Digital Twins, Part of: MIDDLEWARE 2024
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3702636.3703443
Abstract	A Digital Twin (DT) is a digital representation of a physical object, offering unique features such as object mirroring, object relation, data availability, and user interaction. In this paper, we discuss the challenges of deploying urban infrastructure for DT-enabled smart city applications, such as air-quality-aware navigation and traffic management, which aim to improve citizens' quality of life and assist policymakers' decision-making. We refer to this research problem as urban DT planning, with the core objective of enhancing the interoperability and scalability of geolocation- and capability-diverse hardware and software by leveraging modern middleware approaches. Our explorations consist of the following three steps. First, we present our perspective on urban DT planning and propose a general, layered DT architecture. Second, we share our preliminary experiments involving a micro wind turbine using commercial (Microsoft Azure) and open-source (Eclipse) DT platforms. Finally, we conclude the paper with open challenges that need to be studied to achieve the ultimate goal of sustainable smart cities. These challenges are intended to inspire future research on sustainable urban DT planning and encourage the broader adoption of DT-enabled smart city applications. © 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
Author Keywords	Digital Twins; Internet-of-Things; Platforms; Smart Cities

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