There is such a thing as a digital copy. And it can be a copy of the characteristics of both the person and the city or building. Experts from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of California at Irvine spoke in detail.

A digital copy is a virtual model of a real system. A building, a city, a power grid, a person can be used as such a system. But it is little more than a computer model: it is constantly updated to be an exact copy of the system.

Thanks to the digital copy, people can analyze the behavior of a system and predict events.

Detailed digital copies are used in various fields. For example, unmanned vehicle production in health, building, bridge construction, etc. Such copies allow you to find out how effective a material will be without the cost of real experiments.

Experts can even create digital copies of wildfires. In this way, the state can understand how this fire will spread and in what ways it can be eliminated. This data can be used in the future, for example, for the evacuation of people.

Generally, digital copies are created for systems where reliability, security and performance are required. Also of key importance in such systems is the validation of all possible scenarios: both planned and immediate.