Geospatial Digital Twins for the Development of Smart Sustainable Campus Initiatives in Ecuadorian Catholic Universities

Geospatial Digital Twins combine georeferenced data, technology and sustainable ideas that offer an alternative to constructing new intelligent city paradigms without compromising society's satisfaction. However, creating a digital twin for cities to manage the territory is still a hypothesis, especially in Latin American cities, due to limited resources to gather data and have a vision for urban planning. In addition, most cities do not have protocols to obtain sustainability indicators for each reality to guide the construction of a smart city. We have developed a project to build smart cities in smaller regions, such as university campuses, using a Geospatial Digital twin to address this. The study compares four Ecuadorian university campuses representing different city realities, using a sustainable indicator (green space per capita) to derive new alternatives to manage the campus. Our preliminary results show that the most extensive campus, with more people or a better location, may not always be the smartest. We have also constructed a Geospatial Digital twin for each campus, integrating technologies such as GIS, IoT sensors, sustainable indicators, and resident satisfaction to structure alternatives.