Digital Twin

Are we twinning?

Esther Jordan
3 min readNov 19, 2022
Photo by Polina Kondrashova on Unsplash

We’re all familiar with our digital twins — the virtual versions of ourselves on social media. But there’s more to digital twins than just the ability to post photos and share thoughts online. Digital twins are also a way of modeling and simulating real-world objects in order to make them more efficient, easier to manage, and smarter than ever before — and they’re becoming more prevalent every day.

What Is Digital Twin?

A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical system. It uses the data collected from sensors to help predict and improve performance, reliability, safety and efficiency in real time. Digital twins can be used in manufacturing, energy and utilities, transportation industries as well as in other fields such as healthcare.

Digital Twin: The Story of the Future

A digital twin is an accurate digital representation of a physical entity. In its simplest form, it is merely a computer-generated model of something in the real world — a virtual copy of something that exists in reality. But with advances in technology and connectivity, they are becoming more than just representations; they are becoming predictive tools that can help us understand and better manage our complex systems. The digital twin has been around for some time now but…

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Esther Jordan

Quantumplation. Legal writer. SEO marketer, copy writer & editor of 15 years. High fashion model. Former children and adult special-needs counselor. Risk taker.