Innovative Digital Twin Platform Construction for Smart Grid System

Digital twin platform that builds digital models of the buildings and infrastructures plays an important role in smart city design, construction and maintenance. The digital twin models are capable of utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and information technologies, such as perception, calculation and modeling to describe, diagnose, predict and make decisions on the cyber-enabled world based on the big data collected by various sensor networks. In this study, an innovative digital twin platform is designed and implemented for a smart grid system and grid substation in Zhejiang, China. The proposed digital twin model improves the original traditional operation and maintenance of the smart grid system into an intelligent grid management system. The management, operation, and maintenance capabilities of the substation are improved. The proposed method achieves the purpose of improving business efficiency, reducing overall costs, and creating business value.