Net Zero Smart City with Digital Twin

City of Ithaca, New York sets out an ambitious vision to be eliminate or offset all carbon emission by 2030. This 2019 vision is followed by a US$ 100 million plan to climate proof this municipality. One method that the policymakers in Ithaca use to help achieve the ambitious goal is to create a Digital Twin of the city. The map in the Digital Twin include profiles of each building in the city and information of their energy use. This data then collected and analyse to find the best strategy to cut down the energy use. With the Digital Twin planners can estimate cost of retrofitting, measure electricity loads of each are and model various hypothetical scenarios to be implemented to the city that leads to the decarbonisation of the city. Running the various simulation in the model cut cost of time and money as it shows which options are the best and give the optimum solution for the City of Ithaca

Reference

De Socio, M. (2022, June 10). To Get to Net Zero, This City is Making a Map [News Article]. Retrieved from.