With both GIS and Digital Twin technologies rapidly evolving and increasingly overlapping into the field of AI, the ability to integrate and combine their capabilities offers a creative potential greater than the sum of their parts. Smart Cities is one such area where the combination of these technologies is increasingly suited.

Digital Twins offer the ability to model true-to-life virtual assets of real-world objects, processes, or environments that are often synchronized in real or close to real time.

Using Digital Twin digitized models of real-world city assets and simulation capabilities with GIS increases the insight potential for city planners to better monitor, access, prepare, and manage critical city infrastructure with spatially intelligent decisions.