Unfortunately, we sometimes find ourselves in the conventional engineering situation of having to limit the number of options that we look at because we haven't got the time or the resources to look at too many.
In other words, do the lights always go down when it rains?Analysis of this type of pattern data is just as likely to help us achieve higher performing services as real time data.. Data and The National Digital Twin.
As such, the National Digital Twin isn’t meant to be a one-to-one map of everything.The aim is to keep the data as close to the creator as possible, and to keep the creator in control.The National Digital Twin aims to create a translation mechanism called the Information Management Framework.
This won’t be a massive data store sitting in the cloud.Instead, it’s a federated system allowing different parties to find and use data from other sources, and to check whether they’re allowed to do so..
However, certain problems remain.
The first is that someone might not be sure whether the data they’re looking for even exists, and the second involves the requirements under which the data was gathered.My journey in government began in 2010.
I was involved in the nuclear sector when I was first approached to be an advisor in the UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change.I quickly transitioned to a forerunner of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority where I spent nine years in central government before taking on my current role as Programme Director for the Construction Innovation Hub, with the aim of delivering the Construction Sector Deal.
I’ve worked through three different governments - Labour, Coalition and Conservative - but through them all there has been an increasing focus on the importance of infrastructure and transforming construction.. One thing I’ve noticed through this period is that we tend to think of ourselves in the engineering community as being innovators.We think we're quite good at working out what needs doing, but actually, the real skill, and one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned during my time in government, is that working out what to do can be quite easy.
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