Brian T. Horowitz: How Digital Twin Tech Brings Data Visibility, Situational Awareness to Utilities 

The Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources in Georgia recently tested digital twin technology to optimize a multisite water utility. The digital twin was, much as its name implies, a virtual representation of a physical location.

The county took data on water ­pressure, flow and temperature from the water plant and imported it into an Azure data lake. It then used a Microsoft Power BI dashboard to display the data.