Paving The Way to a Digital-First Future with WillowTwin and Azure?Digital?Twins?

Did you know that in the built world, proactive maintenance alone can achieve a cost savings of 20-30% over a reactive maintenance process? Add the ability to benchmark, track and manage KPIs across multiple buildings, identify root causes of key faults, and drive sustainability actions from a single pane of glass and only then, do you begin to grasp the value of WillowTwin. WillowTwin is a digital twin, a digital replica of a physical environment that captures static, spatial, and live data to help owners and managers understand unstructured data across siloed systems. 

Willow is a global technology company that works in the real estate and infrastructure industries to create digital twins for the built world. They’ve combined their own domain expertise in real estate and infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Digital Twins flexible modeling to build solutions that enable real estate owners and operators to reduce costs, improve operational efficiency, and better engage their occupants. 

WillowTwin uses Azure Digital Twins and Azure cloud and edge services. The open modeling language of Azure Digital Twins, Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL), enabled Microsoft and Willow to collaborate with RealEstateCore to adapt its industry-leading ontology, a set of codified industry models that can be used to digitally represent detail across buildings. 

Tenants of large-scale, modern buildings increasingly expect state-of-the-art experiences, from advanced analytics that provide insight into the health and performance of occupants, to lighting and climate systems that respond to real-time conditions. Energy efficiency and environmental sustainability are no longer considered optional—they’re minimum expectations for today’s tenants and owners. 

To address those needs, WillowTwin physically transforms the building into an intelligent network of digitally connected spaces, combining systems across retail, office, hospitality, and residential environments, allowing building owners and tenants the ability to optimize their energy usage, creating a more sustainable building. Analysis of data over time gives operators insight into how they can make environmentally impactful decisions, such as reducing the number of lights needed on certain floors during a Friday afternoon. A reduction in energy costs corresponds to a measurable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. 

Actionable, real-time data about electrical and utility usage helps tenants understand how the behavior of their companies and employees affects costs. With this information, they can change behaviors to reduce costs, measure corresponding greenhouse gas emissions, and still maintain comfort.  

Beyond optimizations, WillowTwin provides benefits to real estate owners and managers that hadn’t been anticipated, including improvements to training for frontline workers. Using the solution as a training tool, they are accelerating and scaling knowledge transfer throughout operations teams. New hires gain a greater understanding of the system faster, and experienced employees better understand the advanced technology and systems within the building. 

Through Azure Digital Twins, Willow is focusing on what differentiates their business, leveraging the robust distributed systems architecture that Microsoft provides. It is a winning combination that paves the way for a digital-first future. Azure Digital Twins brings scale, reliability, security, and privacy benefits that Azure is known for, while Willow harnesses that power and scalability to provide real-estate specific needs. With smart technology platforms like AI, data analytics, and IoT so they can generate more value and continue improving building experiences going forward.  

To find out more about willow visit  https://www.willowinc.com/ or follow them on  https://au.linkedin.com/company/willowinc