Web-Based Digital Twin Architecture: Integrating the Grafana Analytics Dashboard with a Unity 3D Model
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the digital twin concept is becoming a key tool for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing complex physical systems. However, creating such effective platforms faces several challenges, such as the need to integrate powerful data analysis tools with interactive three-dimensional models. This paper proposes an architectural approach and methodology for implementing a digital twin system that integrates the Grafana platform for data visualization with the Unity game engine. The system uses an InfluxDB time-series database as a central data repository. All components are hosted on an Ubuntu server, ensuring centralized accessibility and simplified administration. The paper details the configuration stages of each component and the process of their integration using a custom Grafana plugin and the Nginx web server, while also discussing the advantages and limitations of the proposed solution. The result is a comprehensive, stable, and accessible web application that displays real-time data from industrial sensors on a Grafana dashboard and simultaneously visualizes them within the context of an interactive 3D model managed by the Unity engine.
Institutions: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, University of Tsukuba
Language: English
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7169882197