How to overcome difficulties met in deploying digital twins of electrical assets over their whole life cycle? A data management perspective

There is an increasing interest from Utilities or electro-intensive electricity users to use the digital representation of electrical assets, i.e., “digital twins”, with the aim of increased life span, decreased operation cost and increase operation safety. The reality is that such ambition faces many difficulties for real industrial deployment, especially by lack of data or lack of data interoperability. This paper will first assess the usage of digital twins in this context, identify main difficulties, then derive requirements applying to the data and the data processes. Then the paper will assess technics which may overcome these difficulties and meet the above requirements.