
Hexagon digital twin helping town of Hofbieber meet climate goals

- Company: Hexagon
- Client: The German municipality of Hofbieber
- Year: 2023 - 2024
- Region: Europe
- Product: M.App Enterprise, Geomedia, Luciad Fusion, GeoAI
- Geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and software solutions
- Digital twins
Introduction
The smart monitoring digital twin uses environmental data to replicate the physical municipality, with 3D simulations ranging from C02 emissions to heat disbursement and flooding risks.
In addition to reaching climate goals, Hofbieber can see higher property values, lower insurance rates and increased economic development and tourism because of environmental and urban management made possible by digital twin modelling.
Challenges
Sources of greenhouse gas emissions
Identification of greenhouse sinks (where can greenhouse gases be offset?)
Natural carbon reservoir
Recording natural biomass
Climate-neutral heat and power generation plants
Creating the 3D digital twin
Once data was collected, then the development of digital project model
Recording emitters
Recording sinks
Evaluation
Balancing
Visualisation of potential
Solutions
Results
“The aim of the municipality of Hofbieber is to achieve climate neutrality by 2030, and the digital twin is an integral part of making the municipality ready for the future,” said Mayor Markus Röder.