Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Twins in Federated Ecosystems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22791v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:04:11 GMT
• Title: Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Twins in Federated Ecosystems
• Abstract summary: textitFederated Digital Twin Ecosystems have emerged as a promising direction.<n>This paper proposes the textitFederation Node Manager, a modular integration mechanism that connects local DTs to a federated environment.<n>We present a conceptual design and a prototype implementation, and demonstrate their feasibility in the smart mobility domain for emergency response scenarios.
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• Abstract: Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly used to virtualise physical systems at different scales, enabling monitoring, simulation, and predictions to support decision-making. However, while individual DTs are effective in stand-alone settings, ecosystem-scale deployments require multiple autonomous and distributed DTs to cooperate across system boundaries despite differences in modelling approaches or software technologies, making interoperability and runtime coordination critical challenges. Although \textit{Federated Digital Twin Ecosystems} have emerged as a promising direction, existing research remains at the conceptual stage, offering high-level architectures while leaving the practical integration of heterogeneous DTs underexplored. This paper proposes the \textit{Federation Node Manager}, a modular integration mechanism that connects local DTs to a federated environment through controlled capability exposure, protocol and schema adaptation, and timely state and event exchange for coordinated operations. We present a conceptual design and a prototype implementation, and demonstrate their feasibility in the smart mobility domain for emergency response scenarios. The proposed mechanism serves as an enabling component within a broader service-oriented federated DT ecosystem.

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