The Digital Twin is a key enabling concept in business digitalization efforts. A Digital Twin is a digital representation of an asset. The asset may be a physical asset such as a sensor or vehicle or it may be a logical asset such as a business process or service. The Digital Twin can be used as a proxy for the asset making it convenient for integration into digital control systems and business analysis systems.
Architecture Alignment and Interoperability
An Industrial Internet Consortium and Plattform Industrie 4.0 Joint Whitepaper
IIC:WHT:IN3:V1.0:PB:20171205
Internet of Things:Architectures, Protocols and Standards
The Internet of Things or, as commonly referred to and now universally used, IoT has two keywords: things and Internet.The very idea of IoT consists allowing things to connect to the (existing) Internet, thus allowing the generation of information and, on the reverse, the interaction of the virtual world with the physical world.
A System-Aware Cyber Security Architecture
Rick A. Jones and Barry Horowitz*
Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904