Universal Digital Twin: Integration of national-scale energy systems and climate data

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Savage, T 
Krdzavac, N 
Hillman, M 

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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title> jats:pThis article applies a knowledge graph-based approach to unify multiple heterogeneous domains inherent in climate and energy supply research. Existing approaches that rely on bespoke models with spreadsheet-type inputs are noninterpretable, static and make it difficult to combine existing domain specific models. The difficulties inherent to this approach become increasingly prevalent as energy supply models gain complexity while society pursues a net-zero future. In this work, we develop new ontologies to extend the World Avatar knowledge graph to represent gas grids, gas consumption statistics, and climate data. Using a combination of the new and existing ontologies we construct a Universal Digital Twin that integrates data describing the systems of interest and specifies respective links between domains. We represent the UK gas transmission system, and HadUK-Grid climate data set as linked data for the first time, formally associating the data with the statistical output areas used to report governmental administrative data throughout the UK. We demonstrate how computational agents contained within the World Avatar can operate on the knowledge graph, incorporating live feeds of data such as instantaneous gas flow rates, as well as parsing information into interpretable forms such as interactive visualizations. Through this approach, we enable a dynamic, interpretable, modular, and cross-domain representation of the UK that enables domain specific experts to contribute toward a national-scale digital twin.</jats:p>

Publication Date
2022
Online Publication Date
2022-06-13
Acceptance Date
2022-04-29
Keywords
Climate data, digital twin, gas transmission system, geospatial search, knowledge graph, ontology
Journal Title
Data-Centric Engineering
Journal ISSN
2632-6736
2632-6736
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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This research was supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme. Part of this work was supported by Towards Turing 2.0 under EPSRC Grant EP/W037211/1 & The Alan Turing Institute
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