High Value Use Cases For Smart Building Digital Twins

Executive Summary

This report provides real estate and facilities management executives interested in investing in digital twin solutions with an overview of high value use cases. Digital twins are a rapidly evolving software category in the smart building market that provide a single pane of glass view into operations and tools to perform advanced analysis. Over the past two years, the technology has started to break out of the pilot phase with a wave of customer implementations and further funding enabling suppliers to pursue growth strategies. The report analyses recent deployments to identify practical and high value applications of digital twin solutions across the building life cycle. The analysis finds that the highest-value applications centre around optimizing design processes, asset maintenance and building energy use by leveraging simulation and advanced analytical tools.