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The intent of this chapter is to demonstrate the value of a transversal (i.e., cross-verticals and multi-actor) digital twin platform for Internet of Things (IoT) applications and complex cyber-physical systems at large (e.g., large-scale infrastructures such as telecommunication or electricity distribution networks) around the Thing in The Future experimental digital twin platform developed at Orange. Several real-life illustrative use cases in various domains — smart building, smart factory, smart city, and telecommunication infrastructures — developed by Orange and partners, are introduced. Main design, architectural and technological choices, which sustain this ambition, are discussed: graph-based structural and semantic modelling of systems of systems, large scale graph storage, platform distribution and federation.
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At the exception of IT actors such as Microsoft with its Azure Digital Twins platform. We come to that hereafter.
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And perhaps also having IT and IoT background such as Microsoft.
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The authors wish to thank the whole Thing’in team inside Orange research for contributions to the design and development of the platform and use cases prototypes and demos — especially Fabrice Blache, Benjamin Chevallier, Fano Ramparany, Thomas Hassan, David Crosson and Alain Dechorgnat, Cyprien Gosttein and Maria Massri, Michel Giordani, and Sylvie Tournoud, Yvand Picaud and Regis Esnault… Many thanks also for support and fruitful discussions with Nicolas Demassieux, Roxane Adle, Guillaume Tardiveau, Adam Ouorou, Lyse Brillouet, François-Gaël Ottogalli, Julien Riera, Bruno Gallier, Laurent Marchou, Jean-Marc Lafond, Jean-Michel Ortholland, Alain Chenavier, Emmanuel Routier… any many others. The authors acknowledge the contributions of partners of the ETSI CIM (Context Information Management) Industry Specification Group with whom we have specified the NGSI-LD property graph information model presented in sect. IV.
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Coupaye, T. et al. (2023). A Graph-Based Cross-Vertical Digital Twin Platform for Complex Cyber-Physical Systems. In: Crespi, N., Drobot, A.T., Minerva, R. (eds) The Digital Twin. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21343-4_13
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