D. Lehner, R. Dunkel: Digital Twins for IoT Systems: Exploiting Synergies between Industry and Academia, 4th International Workshop on MDE for Smart IoT Systems (MeSS) colocated with STAF 2024 , July 8-11, 2024, Enschede, Netherlands. abstract
The increasing adoption of IoT systems unleashes more and more potential use cases to make use of the massive amount of data omitted by these devices. On the other side, the increasing complexity of IoT systems also poses new challenges on developing and maintaining such use cases. Software developed to realize these use cases has to process data from heterogeneous devices and their simulations, and interact with these different devices to proactively influence their behavior. Digital twins (DTs) are one tool to cope with the resulting challenges. They provide a uniform, virtual representation of the heterogenuous hardware and simulations used in IoT systems. When developing software for our IoT systems, we can use this uniform representation to retrieve live data and interact with devices, instead manually crafting the connections with each individual device and simulation.