Interview C. Makropoulos - Giving Digital Twins the IMPETUS to become regional. Four-year H2020 project, IMPETUS, works on designing climate adaptation pathways

“The phrase “Digital Twins” has become more common in the water industry to describe creating virtual replicas of physical assets, such as water treatment plants or water networks.
However, another potential lies in “digital twinning” an entire region, initially connecting ‘hard’ ground sensors and ‘soft’ satellite sensors to regional environmental and infrastructure models. This could help eventually connect multiple utility digital twin models to help with long-term water decision-making.
That’s according to Christos Makropoulos, a professor at the National Technical University of Athens and a principal scientist at KWR, involved in the Horizon 2020-funded project IMPETUS. The project’s goal is to turn high level climate commitments into tangible actions to protect local communities.”

(Citation: Interview C. Makropoulos – Giving Digital Twins the IMPETUS to become regional. Four-year H2020 project, IMPETUS, works on designing climate adaptation pathways – www.h20globalnews.com (2022)21 October)