Sangam: Digital Twin’ Initiative

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) unveiled the ‘Sangam: Digital Twin’ initiative.

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Sangam: Digital Twin is a Proof of Concept distributed in two stages to be conducted in one of the major cities of India.
The first stage is exploratory for clarity of horizon and creative exploration to unleash potential.
The second stage is for practical demonstration of specific use cases generating a future blueprint that may serve as a roadmap to scale and replicate successful strategies in future infrastructure projects through collaboration.
DoT has invited Expressions of Interest (EoI) from industry pioneers, startups, MSMEs, academia, innovators and forward-thinkers in this regard.

Digital Twin technology offers a solution by creating virtual replicas of physical assets, allowing for real-time monitoring, simulation and analysis for experimental iterations and feedback loops to adapt to the changes to achieve the best outcomes.
It is a digital model of an intended or actual real-world physical product, system, or process that serves as the effectively indistinguishable digital counterpart of it for practical purposes, such as simulation, integration, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.

The developed to demonstrate the functionality and to verify a certain concept or theory that can be achieved in development.
They form an important part of the product development process for an organization.
While a POC shows that a product or feature can be developed, a prototype shows how it will be developed.
Industries varying from the hardware, drug discovery, manufacturing, science and engineering sectors use the POC process to pursue ideas before approving them for further testing and, eventually, full-scale production.
It is also known as Proof of Principal.

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