We’ve completed the development of a software platform for digital twins of engineering structures. The project was supported by the OP TAK programme (Operational Programme Technologies and Applications for Competitiveness) and developed in cooperation with the CREA Hydro&Energy cluster. Special thanks to Jiří Hodák from company Vodní díla – TBD, for the support and contribution throughout the platform’s development.
The DESIGNTEC team has handed the platform over to full operation — today it runs on two locations: Dalešice dam and Bystřička dam. Details about how the platform works and how accurate it is are available on the link bellow.
Where Digital Twins make sense
A digital twin makes sense where monitoring is already in place, but the data is only evaluated retrospectively — decisions about interventions or operating restrictions are hard to back up with numbers. Typically for ageing structures, or where operating conditions are changing and you need to quantify the change in behaviour, not just estimate it.
The same principle of connecting monitoring, a computational model and prediction — running today on the Dalešice and Bystřička dams — also applies to constructions like bridges, tunnels, high-rise buildings, wind turbine towers. And to machines: turbines in various power plants, or aircraft jet engines.
Full criteria, Digital twin architecture and other details are on the link bellow.
Give us your data
We solve the rest. Want to know if a digital twin would pay off for your structure?
We describe it on the Digital twins product page.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is a digital twin?
A tool that connects sensor data with a computational model of a structure — it shows the current state and predicts behaviour in real time. It’s not the same as a 3D visualization or the model itself.
How is it different from regular monitoring?
Monitoring collects data. A digital twin also evaluates it using a model — it doesn’t just tell you something changed, it tells you what that change means for the structure’s behaviour.
Detailed technical FAQ — deployment, sensors, data requirements — are on the Digital Twins product page.
Any more questions?
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