Digital Twinss

realistic - current - user-centered

Digital Twins

Digitaler Zwilling NRW
BIM Integration, Digitaler Zwilling Sachsen

Exploiting potential to the fullest

Digital twins bring geodata to life

Digital twins are virtual representations of physical objects and structures in our environment as well as their relationships, processes and interactions. Depending on their technical focus, they are used to monitor, analyze or optimize their counterparts. 

 

As a key element in the digital transformation, they set new standards for efficiency, innovation and user experience, bringing GeoIT to life 

Support with conception and development

Our aim is to provide you with the best possible support in setting up digital twins based on our professional and technical expertise.

 

  • Comprehensive support We advise you in all phases of creating a digital twin: from the initial brainstorming, conception and implementation through to operation.
  • Valorization of existing infrastructure We implement digital twins on your existing GeoIT infrastructure and increase its value.
  • Efficiency through expertise We increase efficiency in the creation of your digital twin by actively contributing our extensive project experience and solution modules.
Focus on the use case
con terra supports your activities in context of the digital twin. Our service portfolio ranges from strategic consulting to professional and technical conception and concrete implementation through to operation based on the technologies described above. GeoAI can optimize the acquisition of new information and enable smarter decisions. Our offering is completed by the services of our SpatialUX team, which enhances the user experience and thereby the acceptance and sustainability of your digital twin.

Our services offered

Consulting and conception

New development of digital twins

Further development of existing GeoIT environments / GDI in direction of digital twin

Implementation

Established con terra approach “Design - Build - Run - Evolve”

Individualization based on existing infrastructure and components

Accompanying services (UX/UCD, accessibility, IT security, ... )

Operation

Operational support

Managed services (SaaS)

Software

map.apps: Our powerful client software for digital twins

FME: The platform for all aspects of data integration

ArcGIS: Market-leading GIS technology as the basis for digital twins

Practical Example
Digital Twin emergency response NRW
Digitaler Zwilling Gefahrenabwehr NRW

 

Digital twin for emergency response in NRW. Pilot project at the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia (© Picture Land NRW) 

The core features and benefits of the digital twin are

realistic three-dimensional digital model of NRW

for authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS)

sorted as required, cross-administrative geodata on EARTH | FIRE | WATER | AIR

support with planning / monitoring / follow-up

for the purposes of fire protection, assistance and disaster control

demand-oriented viewer based on map.apps

simple applications for using geodata and services

Fachartikel zum Thema

Wie Geodaten in Krisen den entscheidenden Überblick geben können: Die Fachzeitschrift FEUERWEHR einsatz:nrw (Ausgabe 8–9/2025) widmet sich in ihrem Beitrag "Digitaler Zwilling Gefahrenabwehr Nordrhein-Westfalen – Ein zentrales Angebot zur Erstellung digitaler Lagebilder" dem Thema Bevölkerungsschutz.

Digitaler Zwilling Gefahrenabwehr NRW
Digital twins: From object to global model
Digitale Zwillinge: Vom Objekt zum globalen Modell

 

Interview

Großräumige Digitale Zwillinge

Impulsgeber für Stadt und Land

In der Ausgabe 5/2025 der gis.Business sprechen Marc Kleemann (con terra) und Ronny Zienert (GeoSN) über die Chancen und Herausforderungen großräumiger Digitaler Zwillinge. Im Fokus: konkrete Anwendungsfälle aus Sachsen und Nordrhein-Westfalen, die Rolle von GeoAI und BIM sowie die Bedeutung von Kooperationen zwischen Verwaltung, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft.

Interview mit Ronny Zienert und Marc Kleemann zum Thema "Großräumige Digitale Zwillinge"

Contact

Fechner
Dr. Thore Fechner
+49 251 59689 300