Deloitte's Optimal Reality digital twin lets organizations see, trial, and solve solutions for smart cities

Around the world, enormous investments are being made to create smarter cities to improve how we live, work, and move. Sectors such as transport, energy, and agriculture are changing more quickly than ever before from rapid technological innovation as well as in response to climate change, population growth, and globalization. Many businesses and organizations will consequently face many complex problems they haven't been able to address because of existing limitations to technology and capability.

Digital twins provide a way to change complex systems with more confidence than ever before by creating digital versions of physical systems, so organizations can make better, faster, and more optimal decisions for their business operations and performance in the physical world. Optimal Reality is Deloitte's digital twin capability based on simulation techniques pioneered in Formula 1 racing. It helps organizations run millions of permutations on a digital replica of their network to drive optimal decision-making within seconds.

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Availability

Optimal Reality's primary market is in Australia, where the solution was built. OR is in the process of being made available to other markets.

Benefits

Optimize decision processes

Millions of permutations of what-if scenarios, played out at high speed and accuracy

Platform-based architecture

A common, digital-twin platform for solving a number of problems through connected apps

Mission control operations

OR unlocks a mission-control mindset to solve complex challenges and transform businesses

Rapidly address new challenges

OR's application library and SDK enables rapid development of customer-focused applications

  • How it works
  • Through the Optimal Reality solution, Deloitte is working with ambitious and pioneering customers to help identify and solve their "wicked problems". These are problems customers have never been able to solve before because of existing limitations to technology and capability. Deloitte helps customers understand how the Optimal Reality platform can solve these problems, transform their operations, and drive their business forward, faster. Deloitte integrates the physical-digital-physical journey, empowering a human to make the right decisions from millions of possible scenarios with far more certainty. The OR digital twin lets organizations see, trial, and solve.

    SEE: Deloitte brings together disconnected problems to create a more complete view of how systems truly interact. Their model allows customers to focus on time-critical problems and strategic planning challenges.

    TRIAL: Combining historic, simulated, and real-time data with the simulation and machine-learning technology, OR helps businesses to understand the impacts of millions of what-if scenarios for both macro and micro decisions.

    SOLVE: OR enables businesses to make the right decision from millions of possible scenarios, based on the objectives they want to achieve. All applications are intuitively built to empower operations staff as well as technology teams.

    The OR team works with customers to understand their environment and identify the preliminary opportunities to enhance their operations. Typically starting with an innovation workshop or a proof of concept, Deloitte works collaboratively with customers to see how Optimal Reality can solve their most complex challenges in relation to creating smarter cities.

  • Key activities
  • 1) Develop a shared understanding

    Start with Deloitte’s Wicked Workshop to outline how a digital twin platform can support your organization

    2) Identify the right place to start

    Based on an understanding of your operations, Deloitte will identify a priority use case to demonstrate value

    3) Establish the foundation capability

    Deloitte will deploy an instance of Optimal Reality and implement your first OR application

    4) Focus on users

    There will be a strong focus on change to create a business capability not just a technical deployment

    5) Develop your application roadmap

    Deloitte will work with you to develop a series of applications, each with a distinct value case

  • Customer contribution
  • Nominate stakeholders

    Identify the necessary stakeholders to participate in relevant meetings, interviews, and workshops

    'Wicked' problem discovery support

    Review, brainstorm, and co-design use cases

    Agile co-development

    Implement agile processes across multiple teams

    User acceptance testing

    Perform user acceptance testing activities

  • About this consultant
  • The Australian Deloitte firm includes more than 10,000 professionals and is the largest independent management consulting firm in Australia, providing technology, strategy and operations, human capital, consulting, and actuarial services for regional, national, and global clients. They are part of a global Deloitte network with more than 300,000 professionals worldwide covering consulting, audit, tax, and advisory services.

    Deloitte blends their role as trusted advisor and AWS Premier Tier Services Partner to guide customers in making an impact that matters. With a global network coupled with Deloitte’s industry and innovation experience and the leading-edge capabilities with AWS, they work with customers to take advantage of advanced technologies such as digital twins.

    Launched in Australia in 2019, Optimal Reality is one of Deloitte’s flagship global solutions. They are committed to Optimal Reality and its successful implementation for customers.

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