Project: Creating a digital twin to visualize the city of Eindhoven and assist intuitive understanding of data
Description
Digital twins have been applied in the field of aerospace engineering, manufacturing and smart products and asset lifestyle management. In all cases, the digital twin has been proven useful in ensuring infor- mation continuity, decision support and system behavior predictions. In recent years, research has also been done into creating digital twins for cities and smaller areas such as airports, for example as a decision support tool for traffic control.
Apart from the aforementioned benefits, digital twins also have a very powerful visualization aspect: it aids the user’s understanding of the data in a very intuitive way. Visualizing real-world objects such as buildings and streets and conveying information via easy-to-understand colors and labels can help any user without experience in data analytics to comprehend the data. Research has also shown that animations may be more effective than tables and graphs when dealing with real time reorientations in time and space. For example: showing where buildings pop up from the ground over time in a 3D digital twin gives a much clearer picture than showing a barchart of the yearly increase in construction percentages. Additionally, it allows for easy filtering in some dimensions: the user can intuitively only look at a specific part of the city for example. Finally, it helps the user place information into context and easily combine it with other information in the area. These and other visual aspects and benefits will be further researched in this project.
We want to create a digital twin of the city of Eindhoven and visualize, animate and perhaps simulate data and information in it, with the goal to provide citizens and municipality employees with a more intuitive understanding of the data.
Details
- Student
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MPMerel Pennekamp
- Supervisor
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Andrei Jalba
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