RT Journal Article
T1 Integrating Citizens’ Avatars in Urban Digital Twins.
A1 García-Luque, Rafael
A1 Toro-Gálvez, Lorenzo
A1 Moreno, Nathalie
A1 Troya-Castilla, Javier
A1 Canal-Velasco, José Carlos
A1 Pimentel-Sánchez, Ernesto
K1 Internet de los objetos
AB Urban Digital Twins (UDT) represent a powerful tool to effectively make cities smart. Generally, UDTs are linked with other Digital Twins to build ecosystems where the citizen is at the heart of the ecosystem. This is why citizens should be considered first-class entities in the UDTs. At the same time, citizens’ privacy cannot be compromised. In this paper, we propose to integrate citizens’ digital twin in UDTs through their digital avatars (DAs). DAs allow exploiting citizens’ information, behavioral habits and personal preferences, while allowing them to have full control of their own data. We present our architecture that makes use of the Cloud-to-Thing Continuum to optimize available processing resources. We focus on a case study of the public transport service of the city of Malaga (Spain) and describe how we are approaching its implementation. Finally, we validate such UDT implementation through tests that evaluate its accuracy and the factors affecting its performance.
PB River Publishers
YR 2023
FD 2023-12-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33427
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33427
LA eng
NO García-Luque, R. ., Toro-Gálvez, L. ., Moreno, N. ., Troya, J. ., Canal, C. ., & Pimentel, E. . (2023). Integrating Citizens’ Avatars in Urban Digital Twins. Journal of Web Engineering, 22(06), 913–938. https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2264
NO https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JWE/openaccess
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026