Requirements derived from Digitalization Patterns

Digital twins became a major research topic throughout diverse domains that started around 2000 in manufacturing. This paper aims at establishing comprehensible digitalization environments by introducing patterns contributing to structuring digitalization efforts. An underlying conceptualization of digitalization environments consisting of digital models, digital-physical interactions, and physical realizations is proposed and used to depict interdependencies among digital and physical building blocks. Digitalization patterns that conceptualize monitoring and controlling techniques are selected based on the application scenario and raise requirements for processing mechanisms as well as for the realization with physical devices. To reflect on the conceptualization and the digitalization patterns, project MEASURE is introduced. Concepts are applied to the emergency exercise context by addressing the application scenario modelling, the interaction between digital-physical world as well as the realization. The discussion derives requirements from the digitalization patterns and reasons on the underlying meta model linking the building blocks of digitalization environments.