Octave. City Digital Twin

The city digital twin from Octave (ex-Hexagon) is more than a 3D model. It combines several mature technologies that, used together, deliver actionable information for city management.

A true city digital twin consists of several layers:

• A digital copy of your city — a digital twin of the physical city.
• A connected city, shaped by IoT data from sensors, alarms, and other devices.
• A smart city, created with artificial intelligence and modeling of digital twin and IoT data.

Digital city: serves as the foundation (platform) for the digital twin, providing the data needed to build a virtual model of the physical city. It combines different types of geospatial data: aerial imagery, LiDAR data, digital terrain models, panoramic images, BIM data and more.

Connected city: enables real-time monitoring, analysis and data management through interconnected devices. Where the digital city offers a snapshot of the city at a point in time, the connected city adds the real-time element: traffic cameras, air quality sensors, energy meters and waste bin sensors collect data on traffic patterns, air quality, noise levels and energy consumption.

Smart city: runs on a platform that connects and visualizes all data from the digital and connected city and adds an intelligence layer — analytics, artificial intelligence and modeling.

Combining these layers produces a true urban digital twin that solves city challenges and creates value for city authorities and residents.

What a City Digital Twin Is For

• building resilient and reliable urban infrastructure;
• designing comfortable cities and improving residents’ quality of life;
• anticipating urban disasters and addressing the effects of climate change;
• public safety — protection of people, buildings and infrastructure assets;
• reliability of power, telecommunications, gas and water networks and services.

With Octave solutions you also gain access to real-time data, integrate it into the digital twin and process it — for intelligent analysis and modeling.

Build Safe and Resilient Cities With Octave

Octave combines sensor and software components into systems that integrate the right data in the right place at the right time.

The analytics and artificial intelligence in Octave solutions make sense of the collected data: detecting patterns, forecasting events, and optimizing traffic flow or energy consumption.

Modeling allows testing and experimentation in a virtual environment without disrupting the real city.

Which Octave Products a City Digital Twin Is Built On

• Octave Alto Twin. A ready-made digital twin solution for a facility or territory: maps, BIM, GIS, sensors, video, and alerts in a single 3D picture.
• Octave Alto Enterprise (ex-M.App Enterprise). A platform for building an organization’s geospatial applications: monitoring infrastructure, traffic, land parcels and assets with processing of sensor, weather and operational data.
• Octave Alto (ex-Luciad). Libraries for developing dynamic geospatial solutions with 2D/3D/4D visualization and real-time analytics.

Softprom is an Octave partner: we support your project at every stage of your city’s digital transformation.