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Digital Twins & IoT

Digital twins—virtual models of real-world objects or systems—are enabling organisations to make better-informed decisions, improve efficiency, and reduce both risk and costs. With recent developments in IoT (e.g., sensor technology and communications networks), and artificial intelligence and machine learning, we can obtain a real-time view of system performance, and predict and simulate how decisions and external factors can affect physical assets. Digital twins are a critical enabling technology for the likes of Industry 4.0, and smart cities and infrastructure projects; and have a huge role to play in aerospace and automotive engineering, supply chain management, and digital health.

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Experts in Digital Twins & IoT

Our market-leading expertise in software platforms, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and how these areas converge and interact—together with our deep sector knowledge—makes us a natural choice when it comes to providing pragmatic legal advice on digital twins. Whether technology deployment, platform licensing, strategic M&A, regulatory compliance, data privacy or cyber security, our clients rely on us to understand both the issues and the market, and to deliver practical commercial solutions.

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Some relevant examples include advising:

·       a digital twin provider to infrastructure on various matters relating to its platform that assists infrastructure project teams to make the right decisions with more confidence. Our advice included assisting the client to streamline and reduce friction in their sales process, and updating their contractual documentation for multiple jurisdictions.

·       a digital twin provider to the manufacturing industry on its IP licensing, investment arrangements, and channel partnership arrangements.

·       A leading communications platform and smart metering solution provider on a range of contracts in the UK and EU for IoT solutions in the context of smart motorways and construction projects.

·       an infratech business on mobile application deployment and launching its digital twin offering into new jurisdictions around the world.

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