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Digital Twin Architecture and Standards
twins only within a single tier, reducing the
cybersecurity attack surface. Digital twins
empower and delegate responsibility to data
owners to protect, manage and monetize
their intellectual property. Finally, given
potentially unreliable communications
between tiers, digital twin integration
adapts to and maximizes opportunities for
sharing when synchronization channels are
open between tiers.
federated namespaces across the tiers.
Digital twins could be used to distribute
content between tiers—for example,
application
configurations,
algorithm
specifications or even the manifests and
content for synchronized app stores. Finally,
submitting work requests to digital twins in
the local tier could synchronize with other
tiers, triggering activities in adjacent tiers
whose
results
are
collected
and
synchronized back to the requesting tier.
As ecosystem tiers are increasingly and
continuously
connected,
the
synchronization-only
communication
constraint between tiers could be relaxed to
allow CRUD access to digital twins located in
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