A Distributed Event-Orchestrated Digital Twin Architecture for Optimizing Energy-Intensive Industries

This paper presents a novel distributed architecture designed to spawn digital twin solutions to improve energy efficiency in energy-intensive industrial scenarios. By executing user-defined workflows, our platform enables the implementation of real-time monitoring, forecasting, and simulation microservices to enhance decision-making strategies for optimizing industrial processes. Leveraging a stateless centralized orchestration mechanism built around an Apache Kafka-based backbone, the platform ensures scalability, fault tolerance, and efficient handling of heterogeneous data. Key features include intuitive workflow configuration, asynchronous communication for streamlined workflow execution, and API-driven scheduling for dynamic, event-based task management. This platform will be deployed and validated in several energy-intensive industrial scenarios, supporting the management of energy systems of different plants, to prove its effectiveness across a wide range of energy management challenges.