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How much time-series data would a building project team We also must expect that the digital twin trend is going to
need to feed its digital twin? If trend data were collected for accelerate technology disruption and the remaking of many
50,000 points over five years, about 4.2 terabytes of time-series business and industrial processes. Nevertheless, the most for-
data would be created. To navigate this enormous data store, a ward-thinking facilities project teams are going to embrace the
well-defined reference architecture and standard meta tagging concept. Users of the Connexxion® Platform are already on their
system like Project Haystack is needed. As an estimate, about way toward creating digital twins. They rely on this scalable,
200MB of Haystack meta data would be sufficient to navigate secure data management and data visualization platform to
the 4.2TB of time-series data collected from a 50,000-point transform and unify disparate data sources, to bridge heteroge-
building space. neous networks, and to quickly deploy the analytics and other
Inherent to the digital twin concept is the idea that its value applications that various stakeholders are demanding. These
increases over time. As the information contained gets more users are leading the way into the ‘digital twin’ era of smart
granular, you will get more meaningful and reliable results to the building operations.
analyses run against it, and the what-if scenarios you run through
can start to get more complex. Anno Scholten is Founder and CEO of Connexx Energy
In short, a digital twin platform should accommodate tools Inc., developer of Connexxion, a platform that gives the
we know today, and those to come. It should not be tied to any ability to deploy a new generation of third-party smart energy
specific analytics type or brand. The architecture should feature and operational applications such as Dashboards,
security as well as open, low-friction data interoperability at each Operational and Energy Portals and Analytics, Utility
level. Software stacks supported by open-source communities Analyses, Fault Detection and Diagnostics and Auto
provide the safest future growth path today. A digital twin should Demand Response. Anno has been a major contributor and leader in several
be designed to scale, evolve and reincarnate for the lifespan of critical standards efforts that have transformed building systems including
the building it represents. BACnet, LON, oBIX and Haystack.

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