Digital Twin – Integrating Cloud Services into Communication Protocols

Abstract

The Digital Twin is the following development of ongoing improvements in communicational technologies, decreasing hardware costs and the need for products with decentralized decision-making abilities. In order to improve the qualities of decisions, there is the requirement for an easy, reliable way to transport data between Digital Twins, even if the network connection has a low bandwidth or is unstable. As a solution, the use of a cloud service as a broker architecture is described. A concept for communication architecture is given as well as the required design of a Digital Twin. The proposed concept has been implemented to assess the resulting advantages and limitations.