‘Sangam: Digital Twin’ Initiative

Context- The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has recently launched the ‘Sangam: Digital Twin’ initiative. 

About Digital Twin

• Digital Twin generation creates virtual replicas of physical assets, constantly updated with actual-time facts and replicating its behavior.
• It allows for actual-time monitoring, simulation and analysis for experimental iterations.
• It leverages statistics amassed from sensors and other resources to create an actual-time representation that reflects the bodily counterpart’s country and conduct.

Applications across Industries

• Manufacturing: Optimizing production lines, predicting equipment failures, and testing new designs certainly.
• Smart towns: Monitoring infrastructure, health, managing traffic flow, and optimizing energy consumption.
• Healthcare: Personalized patient care, virtual surgical treatment simulations, and real-time monitoring of medical equipment.
• Logistics and supply chain: Tracking goods in real-time, optimizing delivery routes, and predicting potential disruptions.

Sangam: Digital Twin initiative 

• Aim:

• • • To reveal practical implementation of innovative infrastructure planning solutions.
    • To expand a version framework for facilitating faster and greater powerful collaboration.
    • To provide a future blueprint which could serve as a roadmap to  scale and replicate a successful strategy in future infrastructure initiatives.
  • It is a Proof of Concept (a demonstration of a service or product) allotted in two stages to be performed in one of the fundamental towns of India.
  • First stage is Exploratory for clarity of horizon and innovative Exploration to unharness capability.
  • Second stage is for sensible demonstration of specific use cases generating a future blueprint that may function as a roadmap to scale and replicate successful strategies in future infrastructure projects through collaboration.

• Significance

• • ‘Sangam: Digital Twin’ symbolizes a collaborative leap towards reshaping infrastructure planning and design.
  • It combines the prowess of 5G, IoT, AI, AR/VR, AI native 6G, Digital Twin and next-gen computational technology with the collective intelligence of public entities, infrastructure planners, tech giants, startups, and academia.
• Its collaborative technique is to break the silos and engage in a whole-of-nation approach.
• Sangam brings all stakeholders on one platform aiming to convert modern thoughts into tangible solutions, bridging the distance between conceptualization and cognizance, in the long run paving the way for infrastructure advancements.
• Echoing global moves towards smart infrastructure, Sangam carves out a function of management for India in digital infrastructure and innovation, even as acknowledging similar strides made by global leaders.

Source: PIB

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