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Digital Twins

How digital twins maintain identity, state, and relationships

Sherivs · Editorial · Published 2026-10-26

A twin that is only a 3D model is decoration. A useful twin remembers state, relationships, and events, then computes when those events occur.

A digital twin is often sold as a picture of a building or a device. Pictures do not decide who may change a record, and they do not remember what happened last Tuesday.

For an institution, a twin has to be a durable object: identity, current state, relationships to people and other twins, and a history of events. Compute should run when those events happen, or on a schedule the organization authorized — not as a permanently spinning worker for every object.

Honesty about availability

Sherivs treats twins as part of the long-term architecture. Administrative surfaces exist. A complete twin runtime, including device and IoT twins, is not claimed as a generally available product in the current execution profile.