Digital Engineering Platform Architecture for Avoided Carbon Quantification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital engineering tools face challenges in interoperability, require specialized skill sets, lack a repository for sharing designs, and involve costly physical testing, leading to inefficiencies and increased carbon emissions.
Innovation Solution
An interconnected digital engineering and certification ecosystem that integrates various tools via an API/SDK, includes digitized regulatory standards, and provides a secure platform for seamless collaboration and data management, enabling digital certification without physical prototypes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple digital engineering tools are integrated directly with one another, then interoperability between tools is improved, but the complexity and cost of integration increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized digital engineering platform that serves as an intermediary between multiple digital engineering tools. This platform provides standardized APIs and SDKs that enable tools from different vendors to communicate through a common interface, eliminating the need for direct pairwise integration between tools. The platform acts as a mediator that manages data exchange and coordination, thereby reducing integration complexity while maintaining interoperability.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital engineering platform implements universal interfaces and standardized data models that can accommodate multiple different digital engineering tools with diverse functionalities. By creating a unified platform that can interface with various tools through common protocols and standards, the system achieves multi-functionality without requiring separate integration solutions for each tool combination.
2Measurement precision
If physical prototypes and physical testing are used for certification, then certification accuracy is improved, but carbon emissions and testing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital copies (digital twins) of physical systems, components, and testing environments that can be used for virtual certification. These digital replicas accurately model the physical system's behavior, allowing certification activities to be performed in the virtual world. The digital twins maintain sufficient fidelity to provide accurate certification results while eliminating the need for physical prototypes and associated carbon emissions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces physical mechanical testing systems with virtual simulation and modeling systems. Instead of building and testing physical prototypes, the system uses computational models, simulations, and digital engineering tools to perform certification activities. This substitution of mechanical/physical systems with digital/computational systems maintains certification accuracy while eliminating carbon emissions from physical testing.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for quantifying avoided carbon emissions. The approach includes receiving, from a client device in communication with a digital platform, a request to execute a task by the digital platform. A token is assigned by the digital platform, the token is configured to uniquely identify the received request to execute the task using the digital platform. The digital platform receives a first value representing a baseline execution cost associated with executing the task. The digital platform determines, using the assigned token and based on execution of the task using the digital platform, a second value representing a reduction in execution cost attained by using the digital platform. The digital platform generates, based on a comparison of the second value to the first value, an attained execution reduction cost associated with the execution of the task by the digital platform.