PPMI Digital Twin is an intelligent decision-support system designed to optimize the lifecycle performance, reliability, and maintenance efficiency of built infrastructure assets.
Across the built environment, inspection and diagnostic processes are typically fragmented, subjective, and inconsistent, resulting in unreliable data and inefficient allocation of resources. This limitation prevents the implementation of structured asset management strategies and reduces the operational performance and durability of infrastructure systems over time.
PPMI Digital Twin addresses this challenge by introducing a semantically structured data architecture that enforces validation at the point of data acquisition. The system operates through a deterministic diagnostic model that establishes a controlled relationship between building elements, observable symptoms, and resulting pathologies. This validation chain eliminates incompatible or inconsistent data, ensuring that all inspection records are technically coherent, comparable, and suitable for performance-driven analysis.
Building on this validated data foundation, the system integrates a risk-based evaluation framework that quantifies infrastructure condition through the combination of importance and risk coefficients. This produces a measurable criticality index, enabling objective prioritization and supporting efficient maintenance planning across large and distributed asset portfolios.
Each validated diagnostic outcome is directly linked to predefined technical solutions, including execution time, cost estimation, and engineering-based justification. This enables the transformation of inspection data into optimized intervention strategies, aligning maintenance decisions with lifecycle performance objectives and resource efficiency principles.
Unlike conventional systems that rely on unstructured data input and manual interpretation, PPMI Digital Twin embeds engineering knowledge directly into both data acquisition and decision-making processes through ontology-driven validation. This ensures consistency, traceability, and reproducibility across all operations, while enabling full monitoring of inspection performance, including execution time, operational efficiency, and process reliability.
The system architecture is scalable and adaptable to large infrastructure networks, providing a unified framework for managing asset performance in complex environments. Its structured and validated datasets create the necessary conditions for integration with advanced approaches such as predictive maintenance, machine learning, and computer vision-based pathology detection.
The platform targets infrastructure-intensive organizations, including public authorities, asset managers, and engineering teams responsible for maintaining large building portfolios where lifecycle optimization and performance management are critical.
By improving data reliability, enabling consistent engineering decisions, and optimizing maintenance strategies, PPMI Digital Twin contributes to increased infrastructure safety, reduced costs, improved productivity, and more efficient use of public resources.
By ensuring that every diagnostic output is technically validated and directly associated with optimized intervention strategies, PPMI Digital Twin transforms infrastructure maintenance into a structured, lifecycle-driven system of performance optimization and intelligent resource management.
PPMI Digital Twin redefines infrastructure systems by converting validated diagnostic data into optimized, performance-driven intervention strategies, establishing a new benchmark for lifecycle efficiency, reliability, and engineering-based asset management.
Without structured and validated data, infrastructure management relies on uncertain and inconsistent decision-making processes.
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About the Entrant
- Name:Alexandre Picanco
- Type of entry:individual
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- Software used for this entry:BIM 6D methodologies, Digital Twin data architecture, Power Apps-based mobile inspection application, SharePoint-based data management, Power Automate for automated maintenance plan generation, Copilot agent integration for assisted decision support, and Power BI analytics (in development), with planned AI Builder integration for pathology image recognition.
- Patent status:none



