- High Performance Computing increases accuracy
- Interoperability and system integrations
- Simulations for climate, mobility, livability.
Professionals face complex challenges when planning and managing urban and landscape developments. Digital twins offer a dynamic, digital representation of physical environments, enabling users to perform real-time simulations and impact analyses. This technology enables municipalities and consultants to:
- Efficiently integrate and manage complex data.
- Conduct accurate scenario analyses for better policy and decision-making.
- Develop strategic plans that consider a wide range of urban and environmental considerations.
A digital twin is not an end goal in itself, but a powerful tool that supports decision-making with deep insights into both problems and solutions. Digital twins therefore enable experts, policymakers, administrators, and politicians to collaborate more effectively and make well-informed decisions.
A Digital Twin for your municipality?
The Tygron Platform is being used to develop a municipal Digital Twin, supported by a team of experienced consultants. While the platform provides the technological foundation, the consultant team ensures its setup, guidance, and integration into the municipality’s work processes.
The platform’s strength lies in the fact that municipalities retain control. They determine which indicators are relevant (e.g., quality of life, flooding, or affordability), which calculation models and data sources are linked, and how the Digital Twin is used for participation. Residents and stakeholders can actively contribute through interactive dashboards and 3D visualizations, increasing transparency and support.
The consultants’ role is to work with the municipality to determine how the digital model can best be deployed:
- Fully managed in-house, with employees trained to use the model independently, or
- In collaboration with the Tygron team, providing support for specific projects and policy issues.
The team of consultants has extensive experience with digital city models, including those for the municipalities of Nieuwegein, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Deventer.
Why the Tygron Platform?
The Tygron Platform is designed to bring together diverse data—from zoning plans and traffic flows to green structures and policy indicators—in a single digital environment. This allows policymakers and designers to simulate scenarios, calculate the effects of interventions (such as housing construction, greening, or infrastructure), and instantly visualize them. The consequences for livability, mobility, climate, and amenities are thus immediately clear. The Tygron Platform is ideal for implementing Digital Twins due to the following technical features:
- High-Performance Computing: Increases the accuracy of simulations and analyses, allowing users to explore complex scenarios in detail.
- Advanced Interoperability: Supports seamless integration with existing (municipal) systems and software solutions, which is essential for adding real-time data and policy context.
- Data-Driven Decision-Making: Promotes transparency and reliability in planning and management through accurate data analyses that help policymakers make informed decisions.
Connectivity
The success of a Digital Twin depends on the seamless integration of data, computational models, and visualizations. This enables the connection of complementary technologies that together form a usable solution for specific environmental challenges. Connectivity is key. That’s why at Tygron, we invest a lot of time in developing and testing open connectivity standards that are essential for the success of Digital Twins. Key elements include:
- Data: From GIS data to real-time sensor information, enormous amounts of data are available, but the challenge is to connect and use this data correctly. For example, weather data must come from reliable sources such as the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), and traffic data must be directly accessible from municipal databases.
- Computational models: Sometimes it’s crucial to retrieve the correct data from the desired simulation software. Consider the RIVM’s AERIUS model for nitrogen calculations, which can be directly integrated into the Digital Twin. Your own computational models can also be connected and integrated.
- Visualizations: Whether it concerns platforms such as Unity, Cesium or Unreal Engine, or dashboard solutions such as PowerBI or Flourish, the Tygron platform can communicate with them.
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