First Look
AWS IoT TwinMaker
AWS has recently introduced a new service, IoT TwinMaker. This post is a first look at this new service. (NOTE: IoT TwinMaker is still in public preview at the time of writing and is subject to change).
What Does TwinMaker Do?
AWS IoT TwinMaker is a service that allows for the creation of live digital representations of a physical system where the data can by dynamically updated to help operators keep track of physical factories, buildings or industrial plants.
What is a Digital Twin?
The term Digital Twin is relatively young and there is much work being done to fully define what it actually means, in 2020 a comprehensive review of 93 paper was completed (Jones et al., 2020) and again in 2021 an even larger review of 150 paper was conducted (Semeraro et al., 2021).
Consensus requirements for a digital twin include,
- A physical object or system¹
- A model of the object or system
- An evolving set of data relating to the object
- A means to dynamically update the model based on the data
Commonly, but not universally accepted requirements,
- A means to dynamically update the physical object or…
