The RMIT Digital Twins Network aims to support growth in research translation and research impact in its activities as it connects across RMIT and the wider community to solve complex problems.
A Digital Twin is a digital and enhanced representation of the real world which provides insight, improves decision-making, changes your capacity to act, and can be applied across various industries and organisational settings.
Established through RMIT’s Information in Society EIP (Enabling Impact Platform) in 2022, RMIT supports an active network of more than 80 researchers and professional staff with a direct interest in Digital Twins.
The RMIT Digital Twins Network connects research, professional, and technical expertise in Digital Twins from across the university. The group boasts representation from all major academic units, including all three RMIT Colleges and 14 Schools. The network also connects professional staff from major relevant portfolios, including ITS, Operations, and Policy, Strategy, and Impact.
Supporting capability development, collaboration, and capability deployment, we bring Digital Twins researchers and operational staff together in flexible, activity and outcome focused teams through the RMIT Digital Twins network (RMITw)
RMIT successfully held its first Digital Twins workshop in collaboration with FrontierSI. This facilitated workshop attracted more than 50 attendees with representatives from all three academic colleges as well as from the R&I Portfolio, Information and Technology Services (ITS), Policy, Strategy, and Impact, and the Operations Portfolios. As part of the planning and collaboration process, researchers and professional staff co-designed the RMIT Digital Twin Step Up Plan, including generating a shared understanding of definitions, a gap and SWOT analysis, and the basis for growing RMIT Digital Twins research and innovation principles. View the RMT Digital Twin Step Up Plan here.
These three short videos give you further insight into the Digital Twins research that RMIT experts are leading.
Digital Twins connect emerging technology across domains. The technologies to support Digital Twins include visualisations, data creation, data governance, cyber security, simulation, AR and VR, AI, IoT, and more.
With Digital Twins facilitating better access to rich data and analysis, we will improve decision making, drive innovation, create open dialogues and develop new economic opportunities, while building more liveable and sustainable cities.
Digital Twins enables RMIT University to manage our campus and to engage in collaborative initiatives with local and state governments, supporting better local, regional and state[1]wide outcomes.
Digital Twins allows our university to address complex social challenges. Evidence-based and participatory decision-making, supported by data and advanced analysis, makes it possible to consider system-wide drivers of our changing, unpredictable future.
We are investigating renewable energy potentials in the urban environment using innovative Digital Twins technology to assist in achieving zero emissions targets.
- Dr Rebecca Yang
The RMIT Metaverse 1.0 is a scalable, organic system
Digital Twin, which can be used as a living lab to collect, store, and analyse data for stateof-the-art urban studies and interdisciplinary research,
Dr Chayn Sun
RMIT’s work on Digital Twin applications that assist modelling of indoor disease transmission — particularly defence against COVID-19 — is important to creating a safer working environment for indoor workers
- Prof Ivan Cole
Digital twins will play a transformational role in enhancing the operation, resilience and reliability of tomorrow’s integrated energy systems
- Dr Ali Moradi Amani
Professor Matt Duckham
EIP Director, Information in Society
Please contact the RMIT Digital Twins team via research.partnerships@rmit.edu.au if you would like to know more or to provide updates about your research projects, publications, media mentions and anything else of relevance to share with the Network.
RMIT staff can join the RMIT Digital Twins Network also by emailing research.partnerships@rmit.edu.au.
DTw is supported by the following Enabling Impact Platforms: |
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| Information in Society | Research enabling society to shape, harness, and adapt to the stream of disruptions caused by new data streams and information technologies every day. |
EIPs enable economic, environmental, societal, health and cultural impact with government, business and the community through research and innovation.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
