Amazon Cloud Technologies announced the official availability of its digital twin service. The service makes it easier and faster for developers to create digital twins of real-world objects such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment and production lines.
A digital twin is a virtual mapping of a physical system that can be periodically updated based on the structure, state and behavior of the real-world objects it represents. The Amazon Digital Twin service makes it easy for developers to aggregate data from multiple sources (such as device sensors, cameras and business applications) and combine them to create a knowledge graph that models real-world environments. With Amazon IoT TwinMaker, customers use digital twins to build applications that reflect the real world, improving operational efficiency and reducing downtime.
For example, developers can create a virtual mapping of a metalworking plant by correlating data from plant equipment sensors with live video of various machines in operation and the maintenance history of those machines. Developers can then set up rules to alert plant operators when anomalies are detected in the plant's furnaces (e.g., the temperature has exceeded a threshold) and display those anomalies in the real-time video of the furnaces in the plant's 3D model, which can help operators make quick predictive maintenance decisions before a furnace failure occurs.
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