What Does Digital City Mean for City Management?

• 8 January 2019
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Climate change, population growth, and technological advances are partly contributing to changes in the landscape of city management to be more efficient. Meanwhile, the term Digital City is now becoming popular across the globe, but what does Digital City mean?

Construction& Property Magazine recently met with a representative of world-leading infrastructure software development company Bentley to learn more about the term Digital City.

1) What does ‘Digital City’ mean for Bentley?
It is all about digital twinning which means a representation of a copy of physical reality; for instance, if we have a bottle of water and we model that and excess in a computer that is our digital twin of the water bottle. And if we empty the bottle or pure water from the bottle in our glass, we want our digital model to represent the same status of the physical. And if we skill that up [digital twin]and make that bigger we can do that to a building, and if we do it bigger we can do that to a city and in that way it can help how a city operates and analyze, make it feasible, what is going to happen or what is happening in the city.

2) How does Digital City differ from Smart City?
Digital City is a representation of the city, it does not make it smart. Smart is when we use that information to make a better decision. For example, flooding; the case in the Philippines where quite often have heavy rainfalls and therefore flooding occurs and they say hey the flooding has increased, so with a digital twin put in a digital city we can start bringing the weather data and then modeling and analyzing what is going to happen. And before it happens, we can say well folks if we can change maybe the stone water it rains a bit over there or change the scale of the landscape over here, so we prevent flooding in certain areas, so we think about what can we do about it, but we need a model of the city in order to do that analysis. The case in the Philippines is a case for a smart city because right now we can help citizens prevent flooding or we can warn them of floods, we can say hey guys we are going to get a monsoon, be prepared.

3) What kind of software’s for Digital City has Bentley created?
All Bentley software is used for digital city, but different software is used in infrastructure classes. Bentley has a number of software for the digital city including construction, rail and transit, water and wastewater, mining, roads, buildings, campuses, cities, nuclear power, bridges, and more.

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