Digital doubles to conquer the world
Audio 02:14
A digital twin is a digital replica of an object, process, or system that can be used for a variety of purposes.
© GettyImages / MR.Cole Photographer
By: Dominique Desaunay Follow
6 mins
The industrial sector, the technique of digital doubles already makes it possible to reproduce for testing purposes all the details of an object, an architecture and even an entire city, with a degree of precision pushed to the nearest millimeter.
Publicity
The techniques of creating "digital twins" have long been able to perfectly replicate objects, machines, and even humans in the form of avatars.
Virtual doubles that undoubtedly herald the next great revolution in digital usage.
► To read also: The European Union is already preparing 6G with the Hexa-X project piloted by Nokia
These technologies are described as "disruptive" by the entire industrial sector to simulate in 3D places, such as offices or factories with the possibility of interacting remotely in this virtually reconstituted environment or of predicting behavior in the real world. of a new product, specifies Jean-Gabriel Grivé, president of the company
ARSKAN
.
This French company offers
immersive
, fluid, interactive and scripted
3D visualizations
on demand on a dedicated online platform.
Jean-Gabriel Grivé: "
A digital twin is a 3D double that works and behaves exactly as it does in real life. But this double also makes it possible to create interactions between the physical and virtual world in order to optimize, for example, the operation of buildings, an industrial site, the traffic of a street or even to manage entire cities. Concrete example: some very large public car parks have digital twins to simulate fires in order to know how the real building will behave and these programs optimize in real time the interventions of the rescue teams, if a fire breaks out. In the future, all industries will work with digital duplicates, but what is valid for 4.0 factories is also valid for humans,particularly in the field of prevention with bodily twins to anticipate the development of a disease. This technological breakthrough is already well advanced and we can see that everything can be digitized, a bit like in the science fiction film.
Matrix
in which humans only live in a virtual world. Large high-tech groups are now working on a digital twin of the entire Earth which would be a super Matrix interacting with the real world. However, we must already think about the limits and the consequences of the virtualization of our world, because all new technologies obviously require asking ethical questions about the merits of their deployment.
"
These “digital twins” would also be an effective way to fight against global warming.
These
virtual worlds
in interaction with reality would thus allow a drastic reduction in global carbon dioxide emissions.
More than 7 gigatonnes of CO2 in the construction, transport and mobility, consumer goods and even high-tech sectors would thus be reduced by 2030, estimate the experts from the
European Commission in charge of the climate
.
This is the equivalent of the greenhouse gases released each year by the transport industry around the world.
You have questions or suggestions, you can write to us at news.technologies@rfi.fr
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
New technologies
On the same subject
The Congolese Hoja Taxi application at VivaTech 2021
Facial recognition singled out by the European regulator
Today the economy, the portrait
Éric Yuan, the discreet boss of Zoom