JuNo-OPS: A DevOps Framework for the Engineering of Digital Twins for Built Assets

Digital Twins (DT) constitute complex software systems that need to be continuously modified/updated to meet evolving user requirements and priorities, and support continual improvement. Because they aim at monitoring and improving different system aspects, their development requires the collaboration of people from different domains of expertise, e.g. the development of a DT for built assets may involve the collaboration of experts in software engineering, thermal comfort, air quality, and energy consumption, etc. Consequently, DTs need to be engineered to enable the fast and secure integration and deployment of new code, the systematic and iterative evolution of their components, and the independent development of different system aspects by those experts.