A digital twin aims to gain real-time insights from interoperable data sets of a physical system.

“And when I use the word digital twin, the goal of a digital twin is not to digitize and represent a physical system in its entirety. It's to gain use different interoperable meaning data sets coming from different sources to gain insights you know digitized data of a physical system or a physical environment or physical world be it a hospital be it airplanes be it my body be it my fish tank to give me insights that are you know continuous and in real time that I otherwise wouldn't be able to gain access to”