Digital Twin of a College Campus: Design, Implementation and Use Cases

A Digital Twin (DT) is a dynamic, continuously synchronized virtual model that mirrors a real physical environment, enabling real-time monitoring, analysis, and decisionmaking. Within a campus ecosystem, a DT can integrate diverse systems— such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and academic resources—to improve sustainability, operational efficiency, and user experience. This paper presents a detailed framework and working prototype of a Digital Twin for a college campus, highlighting its design, implementation, and applications. The proposed model unifies multiple data streams through IoT sensors, data analytics, and visualization dashboards to support predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and energy forecasting. A campus-scale prototype was developed and evaluated, achieving up to 12