Our 100 Days in Lock down: CEO Reflects
On March 17th Slingshot Simulations went into lock down with the rest of the UK. 100 days on, CEO/CTO David McKee reflects on 100 of the busiest days in the life of Slingshot Simulations. What would you say have been the biggest challenges with remote working? Ensuring Health and Well being of the Team Particularly […]
End of Open Plan Offices? Smart Solutions for a Safer Office
Last Week We reviewed Digital Twins through the lens of Venture Capitalists. From a review of the technological landscape, we discussed how emerging digital solutions can help towards the current coronavirus crisis through the ability to model various scenarios. This Week We look in more depth at how digital solutions could alter the process of […]
Slingshot Simulations Win Government Funding for COVID-19 Project
Slingshot’s Breathing Cities: A Living Model for People and Place project has received government funding as part of Innovate UK’s (the UK’s innovation agency) £40 million Business-led innovation in response to global disruption competition. Slingshot is one of only 9% of applicants who were awarded funding out of a total of 8,600 applicants. This project […]
Investing in Digital Twins: A Living Model for Storytelling and Play
Last Week We have been looking at Digital Twins from many perspectives so far: Technical, Theoretical, Conceptual and Practical. But how do all these discussed technologies weigh up from a Venture Capitalist perspective? This Week We look at Digital Twins from an investment perspective: Is it worth the hype it generates? What potential do technology […]
Slingshot Simulations joins International Digital Twins Consortium
As of May 2020, Slingshot Simulations joins the Digital Twin Consortium as one of first UK members. This is in line with our vision to set a Internet of Simulation standard for improving interoperability between digital twin technologies. We’re so excited about joining the Digital Twin Consortium. It allows us to be at the forefront […]
The Role of Simulation in Decision Making
Last Week The last couple of articles in our Digital Twins Series have looked at the role of Digital Twins & Decision-Making for the benefit of our communities; whether that be as a virtual testbed for urban development or a Digital Platform for combining multiple data sources from all across a city. Part 1 and […]
Digital Twins & Decision-Making: Urban Regeneration
Plan with confidence: How Digital Twins can improve lives using fewer of our limited resources Exploring how Digital Twins can breathe new life into urban areas without wasting money, time and materials. What are the consequences if we don’t get Urban Regeneration right? Can Digital Twins increase that likelihood of making impactful decisions the first-time? […]
Digital Twins & Decision-Making: Leeds City Council waves the flag for better Data Access
Last Week For the past couple of weeks we have been exploring Digital Twins that are informed by people and centred around human behaviour. But what do you do if you have a lot of impersonal data that you need to use to help people? This Week Stephen Blackburn, Data and Innovation Manager at Leeds […]
Agent-based Modelling for Digital Twins
Last Week In the previous article of this Digital Twin series we looked at crowd modelling at the human level. This builds on one of the primary areas of modelling and simulation, being Agent-based Modelling (ABM). In this article we look at the core themes of ABMs and some of interesting challenges faced in building […]
Personal Digital Twins: Microscopic Simulation at the Individual Level
Last Week… We looked at Humancentric Digital Twins from the perspective of Virtual Reality. We saw how humans, are not only affected by, but can have an active say in the end product This week… We are focusing in from Digital Twins informed by humans to Digital Twins about Humans in the spaces they live […]