UTS – TPG Telecom Partnership secures $1.3M TDRI Grant

The Digital Twin project, led by GBDTC’s Associate Professor Wenjing Jia, is seeking to develop a cloud-based Disaster Resilience Digital Twin solution for TPG Telecom.

This system will integrate historical and real-time environmental and network data to enable predictive flood risk forecasting and telecom resource optimisation during natural disasters.

The Digital Twin acts as a dynamic, real-time model of the physical environment, providing actionable insights that help maintain mobile network resilience when extreme events occur.

Digital twin programs have become more common in recent times, with current deployments including economy and infrastructure monitoring in NSW, and land management in Western Australia. This Digital Twin could help to address environmental risks to TPG Telecom’s infrastructure and services due to disaster such as flooding – addressing gaps in coverage gaps in its network sooner.

Early warnings provided can help operators identify problems early and act quickly to keep services running, as well as enable insights to be shares with emergency responders to improve coordinate and reduce network downtime.

The AI-enabled digital twin will also have the potential to be informed by mobile networks acting as a sensor to improve local data accuracy and prediction and quality. This technology was recently showcased via a live demonstration on Parramatta River on June 16, 2025.