The Digital Twin Paradigm for Smarter Systems and Environments: The Industry Use Cases

Chapter Nine

The human body: A digital twin of the cyber physical systems

Janet Barnabas^a; Pethuru Raj^b    a Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India^b Reliance Jio Infocomm. Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore, India

Abstract

The human body is an excellent engineered product from which many computing systems have drawn its inspiration. The seamless integration of computation and physical components create and substantiate the human body as an excellent parallel of the cyber physical systems (CPS).

The human body is a combination of computation, communication and control processes. The Embedded sensors all over the body monitors and controls the physical processes, with feedback loops where physical ...