Underground Utility Digital Twin
Investment Theme(s): Regenerative Futures | Stage: Explore | Status: Active
Idea Founders: Jeff Dennler, Emma Rose Bonanno, Matthew Sardina, Leigh-Anne Mcknight
Overview:
To address utility strikes and damage claims caused by incomplete data and inefficient processes, implementing data-sharing services and a digital map of utility infrastructure can facilitate secure data access, improve coordination, and provide accurate, up-to-date information for better decision-making.
Problem Space:
Utility strikes and damage claims often arise due to incomplete and inaccurate utility infrastructure data, as well as inefficient processes or practices, leading to avoidable costs and disruptions. Utility owners, entrenched in legacy technologies and traditional ways of working, face significant restrictions on data sharing. This lack of effective communication and data exchange results in conflicts and the shifting of costs and liabilities between utility owners and government stakeholders
Potential Solution:
- Data Sharing Services and a Platform for effective utility coordination that facilitates secure data access, availability, integrity (infrastructure data standards) and insights with interoperable applications that utilize the data sets.
- A digital map of utility infrastructure that provides accurate and up-to-date data on 3D location and condition. It serves as a foundational resource upon which dynamic, simulation-based digital twins can be built