PRESS RELEASE – The German municipality of Hofbieber is working with Hexagon’s Security, Infrastructure & Geospatial division to create an city digital twin that can monitor the city’s progress towards reaching carbon neutrality by 2030.
The digital twin makes use of environmental knowledge to duplicate the bodily municipality, with 3D simulations starting from C02 emissions to warmth disbursement and flooding dangers.
Primarily bigger cities use digital twins for environmental modelling and planning, however the management of 6,300-resident Hofbieber — about 100 kilometers northeast of Frankfurt — hopes to set an instance for small cities working towards local weather change.
Along with reaching local weather objectives, Hofbieber may see larger property values, decrease insurance coverage charges and elevated financial growth and tourism due to environmental and concrete administration made potential by digital twin modelling.
“The goal of the municipality of Hofbieber is to realize local weather neutrality by 2030, and the digital twin is an integral a part of making the municipality prepared for the long run,” stated Mayor Markus Röder.
By monitoring its CO2 emissions with a digital twin, Hofbieber can monitor and examine its progress to different municipalities. The digital twin may also be programmed going ahead to simulate flooding dangers, warmth islands, wind pathways, site visitors and extra for the municipality.
Different bigger cities the place Hexagon has created digital twins embody Klagenfurt and Villach in Austria and Kanton Zug in Switzerland. The smaller footprint of Hofbieber – 87 sq. kilometers — allowed Hexagon to create a digital twin for the primary time utilizing aerial photographs obtained utilizing drone flights relatively than conventional aerial images.
“It’s not solely massive cities that may reap the benefits of digital twin expertise,” stated Maximilian Weber, senior vice chairman, EMEA, for Hexagon’s Security, Infrastructure & Geospatial division. “Hexagon is proud to assist cities of all sizes create a extra sustainable surroundings and meet their local weather change objectives with our groundbreaking options.”
The digital twin work is being achieved in cooperation with KC Becker, one in every of Hexagon’s native companions for municipality work. Hofbieber is a longtime person of Hexagon’s GeoMedia Sensible Consumer resolution for mapping and geographic data techniques workflows.
To be taught extra about Hexagon’s city digital twin options, go to https://hexagon.com/go/sig/urban-digital-twin.
