Enabling 3D Simulation in ThingsBoard: A First Step Towards A Digital Twin Platform

Digital twin platforms enable the creation, management, and analysis of digital twins. However, most of the available platforms are distributed as proprietary software. Considering that available digital twin platforms often generate from former IoT platforms and that visualization and simulation are among the main characteristics of digital twins, we present an extension we developed to the ThingsBoard open-source IoT platform to support the design and development of 3D simulations. Here, we describe such a simulation mechanism and its application on a smart classroom use case. Our work represents a first step towards an open-source digital twin platform.