Smart City Thiruvananthapuram Limited is gearing up to launch a ‘digital twin’ project in select wards in the capital to map physical assets including all buildings as part of efforts to plug holes in property tax collection as well as to aid in governance. ‘Digital twin’, an emerging trend in city governance, involves the creation of virtual models of physical objects and feeding them with real-time data for improvement in services as well as to monitor various parameters.
The residential as well as commercial buildings, mapped using drones, will be linked to the respective building numbers in the digital records for an accurate idea of pending taxes as well as unauthorised constructions.
