This is the second in a series of eBooks on real-time digital twins, a breakthrough approach to streaming analytics. Our previous eBook, “Enhancing Intelligent Real-Time Monitoring with Streaming Analytics Using Real-Time Digital Twins” described how digital twins boost situational awareness in live systems and explained how in-memory computing technology ensures fast, scalable performance. In this eBook, we compare the use of real-time digital twins to conventional streaming analytics, describe the many advantages of digital twins, and explore applications that can benefit from their unique capabilities. Future eBooks will take an in-depth look at applications for real-time digital twins and provide an overview of the software development process.

Topics covered in this eBook include:

• What are real-time digital twins?
• Advantages over conventional streaming analytics
• Aggregating state data created by real-time digital twins
• Geospatial mapping for real-time digital twins
• Digital twins and real-time digital twins: What's the difference?