This is the way Senior Vice President of Innovation at real estate company Tavistock, Juan Santos, describes the first architectural models of its Lake Nona community. Top designers and city planners had weighed in on their creation. The developer was knocked out by their quality. The only problem? They were, well, physical. As such, changes could only be made at great cost and at least semi-permanently. Cue: the creation of the \u201cdigital twin\u201d of this \u201cliving lab\u201d Orlando community that replaced them. Santos says, \u201cOur [superpower] is that we\u2019re not afraid to change and we wanted to keep changing.\u201d Design mistakes were easily assessed and ultimately avoided, from the number of palm trees in a sculpture garden being tripled to effectively shade residents on hot Florida days, to a shopping center\u2019s location being shifted to prevent congestion…. Santos says local excellence in the field not only allows Lake Nona to be designed in a forward-thinking way but helps it run effectively. He notes that while Lake Nona\u2019s visual twin still requires some manual processes when it comes to creating simulations, it\u2019s 80% of the way there. (Santos also notes that the idea of a single \u201cdigital twin\u201d is often a misnomer\u2014or applied to replicas which don\u2019t have simulation capability. Lake Nona also has an operational \u201cdashboard\u201d twin that displays real-time wifi usage, parking garage utilization, and more to supplement it.) In the future, he sees the tool\u2019s increasing sophistication via AI enabling not only instant simulations but ever more optimization of residents\u2019 lives. \u201cOperators will be able to say, \u2018You know, it\u2019s looking like the parking garages are getting full. Do we need more shifts in the restaurants\u2019?\u2026Or if it rains, if you\u2019re a business operator then you figure out, \u2018I\u2019m going to have people with umbrellas at the door.\u2019\u201d Dorian Vee, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Imerza, the company that created Lake Nona\u2019s visual twin, describes such evolution of use: \u201cIt creates a circular economy where developers can really maximize the twins\u2019 value\u2026The ROI pays off in multiple ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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