The Smarter Digital Twin: Using Electrical System Simulation to Improve Safety, Reliability, and Sustainability

If you’ve been following my blog series, you may have noticed a common thread: data drives effective decision-making. Whether you are acting on sustainability, energy efficiency, electrical resilience, safety, or any other aspect of improving operations, data is the feedstock of analytics. And the analytic tools that convert data into actionable insights are getting smarter.

In a previous post, I discussed how building information modeling (BIM) and LayoutFast by Schneider Electric help create an accurate ‘digital twin’ of a facility’s electrical system. This can help improve building design, save design and construction time and costs, and reduce risks. But the digital twin can also be used to help optimize power and energy management during the building operation and maintenance.