Towards a Scalable Architecture for Building Digital Twins at the Edge

This paper presents a system architecture for building digital twins at the edge. In particular, it addresses two major challenges: system scalability and complexity. It introduces two novel architectural components: a Context Aware Communication Component (CACC) that addresses the scalability issue in communication between physical and virtual environments, and second, an application-agnostic methodology, a service registry component for integrating digital twin with EdgeAI (DT-EdgeAI integration) at the edge. The paper describes this architecture in detail and provides a preliminary prototype implementation.