The construction and property technology sectors are undergoing a revolution that will enable those in the market to unlock data-driven insights for unprecedented performance, sustainability, and profitability.

Composable Digital Twins hold the key to this transformation, offering a flexible, modular, and agile method of designing and implementing virtual representations of physical assets. Through the use of composable building blocks, stakeholders can create tailor-made solutions that cater to their unique needs and seamlessly integrate with existing systems. This captivating innovation promises cost-effectiveness, accelerated ROI, and scalable solutions that empower businesses to turbocharge their digital transformation journey.

In this guest blog, Invicara CEO Anand Mecheri, dives into the world of Composable Digital Twins to discover how they redefine efficiency and profitability in the built environment.

Digital Twins are transforming the built environment by enabling stakeholders to leverage the power of data to design, construct, operate, and experience buildings and infrastructure more efficiently, sustainably, and profitably. The ability to create a virtual replica of a physical asset and use it to simulate, predict, optimise its performance and value, is a game-changer for the industry. However, not all Digital Twins are created equal, and the way they are built and managed can have a significant impact on their success and scalability.

Composable Digital Twins are a new paradigm that offers a more flexible, modular, and agile approach to Digital Twin design and implementation. They are built on a set of composable building blocks that can be combined, customised, and reused to create tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of stakeholders. This approach enables stakeholders to choose the right building blocks for their specific use cases, leverage their existing IT investments, and integrate with other systems and data sources seamlessly.

The composable approach to Digital Twins is not only more cost-effective and deliver a faster return on investment, but are also more future-proof and scalable than traditional approaches that rely on a one size fits all approach to software development. Adoption of rigid software products that have a “fixed schema” and “fixed workflows” is difficult, as they are rarely perfect fit for the range of teams and their business requirements. Composable Digital Twin technology on the other hand, allows stakeholders to efficiently create bespoke solutions that precisely target the problems they want solved, and also enable them to evolve the solutions as needs change. It also fosters rapid innovation by reducing cost to build, deploy and manage the applications, and lowers risk by its flexibility.

However, adopting a composable approach to Digital Twins is not without challenges. One of the main challenges is the need for a “Platform Architecture” that provides interoperable building blocks, that can be combined and used securely and effectively. A Digital Twin solution needs many platform services such as Data modelling, Data management, Integration, Authentication, Permissioning, 2D / 3D Graphics, Game engines, GIS, IoT, Analytics etc. These services tend to be available in numerous platforms across many categories, and Application developers struggle to build solutions by bridging capabilities across several platforms that are not necessarily optimized to work with each other.

The Benefits of Composable Digital Twins

  • Tailored Solutions thatsolve targeted business problems and specific use cases.
  • Flexibility to compose, re-compose and integrate solutions quickly to address evolving realities and requirements.
  • Time to market & Risk is lower as solutions are built using reusable building blocks.
  • Standardisation of technology stack across all solutions, reducing cost and effort to maintain and manage application lifecycle.
  • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is lower from reduced capital and operational expenses.
  • Higher Return on Investment from faster deployment, better adoption, and lower TCO.

Digital transformation of the built environment requires innovative and adaptable solutions that can help businesses meet the specific needs of their operations. Composable Digital Twins allow businesses to adapt quickly and supercharge their digital transformation journey. Composability provides businesses with greater control over their operations and allows them to focus on the specific opportunities to increase efficiency and profitability.