Swarm Twin©: Paradigm Shift from Centralized Digital Twins to Biomimetic Swarm Intelligence for the Built Environment

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22745230
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Digital Transformation in Industry
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Swarm Twin©: Paradigm Shift from Centralized Digital Twins to Biomimetic Swarm Intelligence for the Built Environment

Omar O. Elrawy
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Digital Transformation in Industry
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Swarm Twin©: Paradigm Shift from Centralized Digital Twins to Biomimetic Swarm Intelligence for the Built Environment

Omar O. Elrawy
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Abstract

While enterprise Digital Twins ingest massive streams of BMS telemetry, their centralized architecture creates a "data-rich, decision-poor" bottleneck-constrained by single points of failure, network latency, excessive computational overhead, and unviable model transferability across building portfolios. Centralized models provide static reporting but fail to deliver dynamic, real-time control and time-stamped recommendations for complex building systems under volatile conditions. This paper introduces the Swarm Twin©, a paradigm shift that replaces monolithic centralized architectures with a biomimetic network of autonomous edge computational nodes. Translating nature's distributed decision mechanics into edge control logic, the Swarm Twin© architecture embeds equipment-level nodes with physics-informed constraints to continuously negotiate multi-objective energy optimizations between equipment-level dedicated agents. The work establishes a computational framework for swarm consensus convergence, offers a comparative benchmark against recent literature, and serves as the theoretical foundation for active implementation at Temasek Polytechnic’s IBEC Centre. Finally, this manuscript formally establishes international priority and intellectual property rights over the Swarm Twin© paradigm.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Temasek Polytechnic (SG)
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Digital Transformation in Industry
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