Digital twin smart building challenges

While digital twin and 3D technology do exist, smart building adoption will continue to face challenges, and many building owners see it as daunting and out of reach. Other challenges include the following:

• Expensive: Adopting digital twin use for smart buildings is very expensive. Owners and operators with large portfolios can spread that cost across their portfolio, while smaller companies can choose to pick smaller low-hanging fruit projects and stagger implementations.
• Lack of standards: There is a lack of real-time, open, and quality data formats, due in part to the lack of industry standards.

RealEstateCore is a Swedish consortium of building owners, software firms, and research institutions that developed an open source ontology, using Microsoft Azure Digital Twins and its Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL). An ontology is a shared data model (or set of models) and the best practice for a domain such as an IoT system...