Near future
Contact us
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • Energy
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+
August 10 2022

Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine

Near future

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result

News to understand, anticipate, improve the future.

Read in:  Chinese (Simplified)EnglishFrenchGermanItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanish

Water scarcity and drought: the technology of "virtual twins" takes the field

Testing solutions in digital environments to apply them in reality: virtual twins can also make a difference against water scarcity and drought

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
in Environment, Technology
SharePin1TweetSendShareShareShare
Water scarcity and drought: the technology of "virtual twins" takes the field
July 26 2022
⚪ Reads in 3 minutes
A A

Water scarcity and drought are two of the greatest challenges facing our planet today. And Italy in particular seems to be at the center of an almost dramatic convergence. The quarter from July to September 2022 will mark a very strong shortage of rain, extended to all the central areas of the Mediterranean.

The result? You know it, you have already seen it in the news: thermal anomalies (with up to + 3 ° C) associated with a significant lack of rain equal to widespread damage to water resources, agriculture and energy production. We risk, says the ANBI observatory on water resources, a water rationing in more than one Italian region.

We need to act quickly

Given the general framework, rapid action is needed to examine how resources are used, and to raise awareness of greater water efficiency, starting with the industrial sector. There is a technology developed for similar cases, which we have told you about Thu e Thu: these are the "virtual twins".

The article continues after the related links

Earth Day: 5 killers of the planet and the solutions to stop them

Plants remember periods of drought

Airdrop, water from the air in real time

Virtual twin technology is a state-of-the-art tool that can be used to examine how resources are used and to pre-test solutions on an urban or regional scale before applying them to real-world scenarios. A complex system, which requires multidisciplinary approaches and the convergence of different sectors (“diagnostics” through sensors, information technology, artificial intelligence and others). An example applied to urban planning? Take a look here.

From sectors such as healthcare or manufacturing (where they have already been used), virtual twins can now also find space in the optimization of water resources to combat drought.

Virtual experience, real benefit

Water intertwines its fate with all human knowledge. It is not only used to quench people's thirst, or their personal hygiene: the vast majority of agricultural and manufacturing sectors need this precious resource. In response to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which include access to and efficient use of water resources, governments and businesses are looking for ways to manage such a valuable asset as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Virtual twins are an opportunity that allows manufacturing companies, inventors, customers and stakeholders to work together in a 3D virtual environment to generate new objects and processes without having to use physical prototypes that would require large amounts of natural resources.

Solutions like the platform 3DEXPERIENCE developed by the European Dassault Systèmes open the way to a more sustainable production system. Through the "virtual twins" it will be possible to understand the consumption of water in each phase of a process.

Towards a virtuous "supply chain" of water

“By measuring the water footprint of goods and services from design to manufacturing,” he says Guido Porro, Managing Director Southern Europe and AD Italy of Dassault Systèmes, "as well as their effect at the end of their life, the effects will also be reflected immediately on the final consumer ".

virtual twin water shortage
Guido Porro

How? Simple: through greater awareness. An end customer, for example, can choose to purchase items and services designed, produced and transported with a lower water impact. A sort of "certification" that shows the most attentive companies.

There is no better way, if we want to tackle the problem of water scarcity and drought, than to start the change from every single person and every single company. And there is no better way to organize this action than through advanced technologies such as that of virtual twins.

We will hear about it more and more often.

tags: drought
Previous post

The new GMO rice flexes its muscles: 40% more grains

Next Post

Alcohol, huge genetic study: accelerates biological aging

COLLABORATE

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff
  • Levitation device lifts building materials

    Levitation device lifts building materials

    4017 Shares
    Share 1606 Tweet 1004
  • Goodbye manual gearbox: the future of the car is marked

    1187 Shares
    Share 474 Tweet 297
  • Sentient or not? It is the least of the problems that AI will give us. Watch out for functions

    951 Shares
    Share 380 Tweet 238
  • 30 minutes of sunshine and the self-healing coating repairs car scratches

    451 Shares
    Share 180 Tweet 113
  • Created yeast containing human genes. Because?

    187 Shares
    Share 74 Tweet 47

archive

Have a look here:

Rimbin, the virus-proof playground inspired by water lilies
concepts

Rimbin, the virus-proof playground inspired by water lilies

A playground that allows interaction and respects health rules. A difficult challenge, to which two German designers responded ...

Read More
Goodbye puncture? At least for bikes!

Goodbye puncture? At least for bikes!

Smart bus

CAPS 2.0, bus stop that purifies the air, cuts smog and kills viruses

Amazon Prime Now brings the meat home to us

Amazon Prime Now brings the meat home to us

vegan skin

Leap, the "vegan leather" made with apple scraps (cores and peels)

The daily tomorrow

Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Environment
Architecture
Artificial intelligence
Gadgets
concepts
Design

Staff
Archives
Advertising
Privacy Policy

Medicine
Spazio
Robotica
Work
Transportation
Energy

To contact the FuturoProssimo editorial team, write to [email protected]

Chinese Version
Édition Française
Deutsche Ausgabe
Japanese version
English Edition
Edição Portuguesa
Русское издание
Spanish edition

This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
© 2021 Futuroprossimo

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • Energy
  • Transportation
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • Gadgets
  • Italy Next
  • H+