Using Digital Twins To Develop Smart Management Of Green Spaces

Abstract

The research paper discusses a phenomenon currently facing cities around the world, which is the weak management of green spaces that suffers from the impacts on its infrastructure and deficiencies in its services, as well as the absence of the role of smart resource systems to mitigate climate changes (heatwaves, severe drought, desertification, and pollution). Therefore, the aim of the research is to define the pivotal role of digital twin technology in managing green spaces by presenting a three-dimensional virtual model supported by live data on visitor movement, environmental resources, and the performance of service systems, in order to improve decision-making and enhance the visitor experience towards sustainable tourism. The study hypothesized that extensive exploration of digital twin technologies and their applications in construction and urban development can facilitate the creation of smart, efficient, and environmentally friendly urban spaces. By describing the reality of spaces in the city of Baghdad and analyzing the application of the digital twin in the Baghdad Tourist Island according to the criteria of spaces in smart cities, the research results were reached, the most important of which is the integration of sensing systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) and proposing a new vision for managing tourist areas. This represents a smart step towards digitizing spaces in sustainable smart ways.