Digital transition, digital twin and digital water: history, concepts and overview for the application to aqueducts
Orazio Giustolisi
Abstract
Introduction:The words digital transition, digital twin and the concept called digital water, quickly came into common use due to a profoundly modified global context following the pandemic event which accelerated changes already previously underway, including the digital transition itself.Objectives: This document aims to give technical-scientific substance to the word digital water in a critical way, starting from the foundations of current changes and taking as a specific reference the management of aqueduct systems, without losing the generality of the discussion.Method: To the purpose, the concepts behind the words digital transition and digital twin are discussed and revised starting from the salient points of the scientific history of the past centuries and decades, which were the foundation of these concepts.This is the only way to develop the technical-scientific meaning of digital transition and digital twin critically and usefully in the technical world of water systems, to achieve the same objectives intrinsic to the concepts of digital transition and digital twin.