{"id":2177,"date":"2017-08-07T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:32:40","slug":"learn-about-iot-and-digital-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2017\/08\/07\/learn-about-iot-and-digital-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn about IoT and Digital Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An emerging topic with IoT is Digital Twin (DT).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The digital twin is a federation of data and models that can be analyzed or put into a simulation to create useful information about the past, present, or future of the DT&#8217;s physical twin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bruce Sinclair of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iot-inc.com\/breaking-down-and-building-up-iots-digital-twin-podcast\/\">Iot-Inc. Business Show<\/a> podcast invite Jim Tung, a MathWorks fellow, to discuss models, simulation, and digital twins. Jim shares information about a few MathWorks customer use cases and our products used for modeling, simulation, and IoT.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce and Jim talk about many interesting and key topics for IoT system development, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The difference between data-driven models and functional models<\/li>\n<li>Using raw data to calibrate, update and validate functional models<\/li>\n<li>System level modeling<\/li>\n<li>The importance model hierarchy to discover insights<\/li>\n<li>A smart grid digital twin example<\/li>\n<li>The role of deep learning in digital twin modeling<\/li>\n<li>The actionable steps of how to create your digital twin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To listen to the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iot-inc.com\/breaking-down-and-building-up-iots-digital-twin-podcast\/\">Iot-Inc. Business Show<\/a>\u00a0podcast, either subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/internet-things-business-show\/id932218821\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0or play the episode on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iot-inc.com\/breaking-down-and-building-up-iots-digital-twin-podcast\/\">Iot-Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iot-inc.com\/breaking-down-and-building-up-iots-digital-twin-podcast\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2178\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/files\/2017\/08\/breaking-down-and-building-up-iot-digital-twin-mathworks.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Additional Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/solutions\/internet-of-things.html\" target=\"_blank\">MathWorks IoT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/discovery\/predictive-maintenance.html\" target=\"_blank\">MathWorks Predictive Maintenance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/solutions\/data-analytics.html?s_tid=srchtitle\" target=\"_blank\">MathWorks Data Analytics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iot-inc.com\/the-iot-product-versus-the-smart-and-connected-product-article\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iot-Inc. Article: The IoT Product Versus the Smart and Connected Product<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iot-inc.com\/producing-digital-twin-for-industrial-internet-of-things-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iot-Inc.Podcast: Producing the Digital Twin for the Industrial Internet of Things<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/files\/2017\/08\/breaking-down-and-building-up-iot-digital-twin-mathworks.png\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An emerging topic with IoT is Digital Twin (DT).<br \/>\nThe digital twin is a federation of data and models that can be analyzed or put into a simulation to create useful information about the past,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2017\/08\/07\/learn-about-iot-and-digital-twins\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[210,251,60,252,209,250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}