Smart-city climatology for digital twins and CFD inputs

Specify urban microclimate monitoring so digital twins and CFD models receive defensible boundary conditions, calibration data, validation evidence, and climate-context metadata. After confirming this use case, continue to Step 2 so the final specification can be updated for local conditions.

↓ Scroll to review the use-case requirements, then continue below to Step 2.

1. Procurement decision

Define the modelling or planning decision the sensor network must support: CFD boundary conditions, digital-twin dashboards, model calibration, neighborhood climate mapping, wind-comfort studies, heat-risk planning, pollutant-dispersion scenarios, design review, or post-project performance verification.

2. Measurements and scope

Air temperature, relative humidity, pressure, and solar radiation
Wind speed and direction at defined heights and exposure classes
Optional surface temperature, rainfall, air quality, or noise context
Station height, coordinates, elevation, mounting type, and obstruction metadata
Time interval, synchronization, QA flags, and gap-handling method
Data export format for digital twins, CFD workflows, and GIS platforms

3. Climate and site exposure

Urban-canyon bias, rooftop bias, wall heating, and local turbulence
High solar radiation, shield heating, and ventilation limitations
Coastal salt, humidity, corrosion, dust, pollution, and insects
Cold-region icing, snow loading, freeze-thaw, and road-salt exposure
Access constraints for cleaning, calibration, battery replacement, and inspection
Security, vandalism, permissions, power availability, and communications coverage

4. Minimum tender requirements

Require measurement range, accuracy, response time, calibration traceability, radiation-shield or aspiration method, wind-sensor exposure class, mounting drawings, site metadata schema, operating temperature range, data interval, time synchronization, uptime target, API/export format, maintenance interval, and a documented uncertainty statement.

5. Acceptance tests and scoring evidence

Score bids using evidence that can support modelling work: side-by-side reference comparisons, calibration certificates, sample time-series files, metadata examples, API documentation, installation photographs, sensor-height audit, uncertainty budget, QA/QC procedure, and a small pilot dataset suitable for digital-twin or CFD validation.

6. Detailed specification clauses

The detailed clause pack is intentionally held in Step 3. First lock the use case, then choose the climate profile, then open the final climate-adjusted specification.

Next step

You have defined the use case.

Now select the climate profile that will adapt:

temperature limits
prevailing precipitation type
environmental stresses

Go to Step 2: Choose climate profile