Presentation given by Tanguy Coenen, imec, at Open & Agile Smart Cities' annual Connected Smart Cities & Communities Conference 2020 on 23 January in Brussels, Belgium

1. PUBLIC
ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF URBAN DIGITAL TWINS
TANGUY COENEN

2. SEMICONDUCTOR & SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES
CORE
CMOS
PATTERNING
TECHNOLOGY
LOGIC
TECHNOLOGY
MEMORY
TECHNOLOGY
INTERCONNECT
TECHNOLOGY
3D INTEGRATION
OPTICAL I/O
SENSOR
TECHNOLOGY
FLEXIBLE
TECHNOLOGY
APPLICATION DOMAINS
SMART HEALTH SMART MOBILITY SMART CITIES SMART INDUSTRIES SMART EDUCATION
NETWORKING DIGITAL PRIVACY &
SECURITY
SOFTWARE & DATA
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS
SMART ENERGY

3. UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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5. ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES - THINK GLOBAL ACT LOCAL
Think global on causes
The planet is an interconnected complex system => local phenomena have global impact
Think local on effects and solutions
Environmental issues are global
Yet many aspects related to environmental issues are local
Among other geographical areas, cities are a great place to address these issues
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6. ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Cause
Environmental
issue
Effect
CO2 Global warming
Flash
floods
Urban
Digital twin

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Urban digital twin =>
the entity is a city
URBAN DIGITAL TWINS
Mission:
• to improve decision making for city administrations and emergency
responders
• to allow citizens to understand the impact of decision in the city and
provide feedback

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AIR QUALITY

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FLASH FLOOD RISK

10. URBAN DIGITAL TWIN PROTOTYPE
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Internet of Things
Artificial intelligence
Open data, context data and data standards

12. Water Quality
BUDI - BUILT ENVIRONMENT DIGITAL TWIN – EXAMPLE DOMAINS
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Air Quality People Flows Flooding Risk Traffic Situation
Emergency
vehicle status

13. Solution accelerator Store
Solution
accelerator type 3
Solution
accelerator type 2
Solution
accelerator type 1
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Sensor type 1 Sensor type 2 Sensor type 3
Algo type 3Algo type 2Algo type 1
API API API
BuDi backend
BuDi GUI
Other platforms
Standards
• Connecting European Facility (CEF
Context broker)
• TM-Forum (Frontrunner smart cities)
• ETSI-CIM (NGSI-LD)
• FIWare (NGSI v2)
• OGC (CityGML)
• …

14. UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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15. …to bring entrepreneurial thinking, agile processes
and open innovation to Government decision making
Influence better public
decisions
Explore policy impact
Experiment and innovate in
cities and across regions
Make data understandable
Connect legacy systems
Digital
Twin

16. MORE INFO
Imec’s City of Things program: www.imeccityofthings.be/en
Duet H2020 project: www.digitalurbantwins.com
tanguy.coenen@imec.be
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