Digital Twins for IoT Systems: Exploiting Synergies between Industry and Academia

How can we align industrial and academic action towards digital twins for IoT systems?
In this talk, I'll give an overview of these current actions and present three action points to align them.

Presented at the MESS workshop 2024 as part of the STAF conference.

1. JOHANNES KEPLER
UNIVERSITÄT LINZ
Altenberger Straße 69
4040 Linz, Österreich
jku.at
Daniel Lehner, Ricardo Dunkel
Digital Twins for IoT Systems:
Exploiting Synergies
between Industry and Academia

2. Context: IoT Systems
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AnomalyDetection AI-basedPlanning
PredictiveMaintenance

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Picture sources: https://www.iberdrola.com/innovation/smart-farming-precision-agriculture
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3. Context: Digital Twins
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Digital Twin
AnomalyDetection AI-basedPlanning
PredictiveMaintenance

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Picture sources: https://www.iberdrola.com/innovation/smart-farming-precision-agriculture
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4. Digital Twins in Industry
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standardizes

5. Digital Twins in MDE research
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Wherearethetoolsfrom
previousslidehere?
Howcanindustryadopt
ourresults?
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6. AligningIndustry
and Academia

7. Action Point 1: Evaluateresearchon industrialDT
solutions
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Industrial
Models
Research
Results
Researchers
Practitioners
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8. Benefits
•Startingpointforresearch
•GuidanceforpractitionersstartingtoimplementDTs
Whatarewemissing?
•Assessment Frameworks
•First attempt: https://github.com/cdl-mint/DT_Platform_Comparison
•Whatelse?
Action Point 2: Structured assessments ofexisting
DT tooling
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Requirement1
Requirement2
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9. [1] https://github.com/cdl-mint/dt_language_comparison
[2] https://github.com/jku-win-se/sysmlv2-aas-mapping
[3] https://github.com/derlehner/etfa2021
[4] Lehner, Pfeiffer, Wortmann, Wimmer. A Method forTemplate-basedArchitecture Modeling and itsApplicationtoDigital Twins. ECMFA 2024.
Action Point 3: Transformationsbtw. academicand
industrialplatforms
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Open Question: Can wedo thismoreefficiently?
•Possible approachpresentedat ECMFA yesterday[4]
Benefits
•Practitionerscanuseresearchtoolson theirmodels
•Transform DT solutionstoindustrialplatformstoassessthemin industrialsettings
Implement standards
in researchtools(e.g., [1, 2])
Transform modelsinto
proprietarylanguages(e.g., [1, 3])
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10. 10
Access toindustrialusecases Low-thresholdcooperations
WhyMDE Community?
Let‘sBuildBetterDigital Twins Together!
WhyIoT Community?
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–BridgingIndustry and Academia
Analysis of
Potentials
Tailor-Cut
Trainings
Project Planning
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12. Letthediscussionbegin!
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