Digital Twins
Notes:
- The Digital Twins feature is available for Litmus Edge version 3.3.1 and later.
- To access the Digital Twins feature, you need a Scale or Growth Litmus license.
The Digital Twins feature allows you to create virtual representations of industrial assets. These industrial assets can be anything associated with the production of industrial products, such as an industrial machine, an industrial site, or a programmable logic controller (PLC) device.
Digital Twins can combine physical asset data from different sources, so that you can use it for monitoring and maintenance activities such as insights, alerts, and feedback loop.
Models are the data structures for Digital Twin instances. You can configure the following parameters in a model.
- Attributes: Models store the dynamic and static attributes that will be used by instances for identification and data collection.
- Dynamic attributes: Variable data for the model. For example, Temperature, Vibration, and Downtime.
- Static attributes: Metadata of the model. For example, Device ID, Serial, and Model.
- Transformations: You can transform the data collected in instances by converting raw JSON data to a desired format by defining the JSON-based schema.
- Hierarchy: Provides a logical representation of dynamic and static attributes. You can drag and drop attributes into the hierarchy as needed and add folders to create a custom data structure.
Instances are the physical objects that contain static and dynamic data from different sources. Every instance has to be associated with a model. The attributes configured in the model determine the data that will be collected by the instance.
Every instance generates a new data topic that is published to the internal message broker. This data topic can be leveraged within Litmus Edge.
You can configure instances by doing the following:
- Modify the configurations of static attributes in the instance.
- Map one-to-one relationships with data topics and dynamic attributes by configuring topic names for dynamic attributes in the instance.
- Use the Data Access tab to view real-time data.
- Send instance data to northbound integrations by referring to the Data Access topic name.
See Use Digital Twins to Contextualize Data to review how to leverage Digital Twins.
To access Digital Twins:
- Log in to Litmus Edge.
- From the Navigation panel, select Digital Twins. The Models pane appears.