Digital Twin

About Our Project

Smart Cities generate huge amounts of data like water thoughput, energy consumption, weather conditions, etc. The processing and visualisation of this data is sadly not widely publicly available. Smart data noes have to be uniquely identifieable for public use. Existing distributed dns networks which are self healing and store additional information are currently not publicly available. Our solution:

Service Mesh

Public maps offer a variety of functions intended for traveling and orientation. Digital Twin is meant to condense all the live sensor data available for a city in one map. Information about the weather, water flow, power consumption, and others can be obtained from the sensors distributed in Vienna and illustrated. The project facilitates the setup of sensors, communication between those and the reception of such information.

Dstributed DNS

A basic DNS server is used to translate number based IP-addresses into domain names. The planned Distributed DNS network is an expandable network of DNS servers that can be distributed across several devices. It consists of multiple synchronized nodes. It doesn't matter which node is spoken to - every node delivers the same information. It also offers more features than a basic DNS server, like health checks and a data-store for extra information. The service-mesh relies on the distributed DNS for its communication, therefore the distributed DNS is the foundation of the service-mesh.

Timeline

Here's our roadmap for the years 2020 and 2021

30.01.2020

Accenture Hackathon

January 2020 our team from the tgm was able to reach the top 3 in the Accenture Hackathon. There we won a diploma project with accenture as partners.
26.11.2020

First prototypes working

Features have been implemented and prototypes are running. Still, there's lot's to do since stability can't be expected at this project stage. We only have rough implementations. The prototypes can be presented at the open-door day.
22.12.2020

Interfaces and critical subsystems fully implemented

Preperation for connecting the prototypes to allow them to cooperate in the future. Functionality mostly finished.
28.01.2021

Connecting Service Mesh and Distributed DNS

Linking both subprojects to create a finished overall system.
25.02.2021

Graphical Visualisation of Service Mesh working

Development of a graphical user interface for simple usability of the Digital Twin.
18.03.2021

End-To-End Testing finished

All tests are sucessful and most errors were eliminated.
All
work
done!