# Applications of Digital Twin across Industries: A Review
## 15 Conclusions
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**Sector** & & **DT Application** & **Advantages** \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**Smart City**} & \(\bullet\) & Resource planning and management & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Testbed for new ideas & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Help in the decision-making process & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Real-time monitoring of construction & \(\bullet\) & Improves the accessibility of \\  & \(\bullet\) & progress, mobility and traffic, environment, & specific areas \\  & & and overall wellness of the city & \(\bullet\) & Promotes stakeholders’ \\  & \(\bullet\) & Planning emergency response for & \(\bullet\) & participation in decision making \\  & \(\bullet\) & disaster management & \(\bullet\) & Improves city services \\  & \(\bullet\) & Studying and analyzing city’s infrastructure & \(\bullet\) & Fosters sustainable development \\  & \(\bullet\) & and assessing any future risks & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Platform to facilitate comments and & \\  & \(\bullet\) & suggestions by every stakeholder & \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**Mining**} & \(\bullet\) & Process/operation optimization & \(\bullet\) & Improves asset and \\  & \(\bullet\) & Predictive maintenance of assets & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Predicting and optimizing transport network & \(\bullet\) & Cuts down unplanned downtime \\  & \(\bullet\) & Simulating and analyzing different scenarios & \(\bullet\) & Improves processes’ efficiency and \\  & \(\bullet\) & across value chain & & product quality \\  & \(\bullet\) & Trains new miners, especially for & \(\bullet\) & Risk-free and \\  & \(\bullet\) & emergency situations & & stress-free environment \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**Maritime**} & \(\bullet\) & Predictive maintenance of vessel & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Remote monitoring and diagnostics & \(\bullet\) & Improves availability, and \\  & \(\bullet\) & Maintenance planning & & efficiency assets and missions \\  & \(\bullet\) & Optimize the time for the vessel to sail and & \(\bullet\) & Increases reliability assets \\  & \(\bullet\) & number cargos to carry & \(\bullet\) & Improves maintenance \\  & \(\bullet\) & Tool for digitalization of ports, quay & \(\bullet\) & Reduces operational costs \\  & \(\bullet\) & walls, buoys & \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**Agriculture**} & \(\bullet\) & Remote monitoring of livestock & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Identifying pests or diseases & \(\bullet\) & Promotes sustainable development \\  & \(\bullet\) & Managing and optimizing production plants & \(\bullet\) & Increases production and thus \\  & \(\bullet\) & Monitoring the stocks of the silos & & food security \\  & \(\bullet\) & Evaluating cost-effectiveness of crop & \(\bullet\) & Better decision making \\  & \(\bullet\) & management treatments & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Planning for vertical farms & \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**Education**} & \(\bullet\) & Tool for communication for visualizing & \\  & \(\bullet\) & working of systems and sub-systems & \(\bullet\) & Better understanding of systems \\  & \(\bullet\) & Teaching physical twin behavior in the real & \(\bullet\) & Simplifies and accelerates \\  & \(\bullet\) & world under different operational conditions. & knowledge exchange \\  & \(\bullet\) & Issue identification and problem-solving by & \(\bullet\) & Ensures safety of students \\  & \(\bullet\) & immediate feedback on system behavior & & and equipment \\  & \(\bullet\) & Inquiry-based learning during system & \(\bullet\) & Opportunity to explore the \\  & \(\bullet\) & development and testing & & complexities and behavior of the \\  & \(\bullet\) & Sharing unlimited resources & & physical systems \\  & \(\bullet\) & amongst students & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Tool for distant learning students & & \\ \hline \multirow{8}{*}{**Construction**} & \(\bullet\) & Helps in BIM & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Problem-solving against real-life scenarios. & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Tool for future projects. & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Decision-making regarding feasibility of & \\  & project, material selection, energy analysis & & \\  & and management, procurement, supplier & & \\  & selection, sustainability issues, etc. & & \\  & Monitoring and assessing condition and & & \\  & integrity of building continuously & & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Optimizing maintenance and services in & \\  & the building & & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Monitors logistics processes & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Conserving heritage assets virtually that & \\  & need demolition & \\  & \(\bullet\) & Resource efficiency enhancement and & \\  & knowledge exchange & & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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