Cloud-Edge-Device Collaborative Reliable and Communication-Efficient Digital Twin for Low-Carbon Electrical Equipment Management

The real-time electrical equipment management, such as renewable energy, controllable loads, and storage units, plays a key role in low-carbon operation of smart industrial park. Digital twin (DT), which explores cloud-edge-device collaboration and artificial intelligence to establish accurate digital representation of physical equipment, is a cutting-edge technology to realize intelligent optimization of electrical equipment management. However, the practical implementation still faces reliability and communication efficiency problems, such as adverse impact of electromagnetic interference on DT reliability, high communication cost of DT model training, and uncoordinated resource allocation among cloud, edge, and device layers. We propose a Cloud-edge-device Collaborative reliable and Communication-efficient DT for lOW-carbon electrical equipment management named <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{C}^{3}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-FLOW. It minimizes the long-term global loss function and time-average communication cost by jointly optimizing device scheduling, channel allocation, and computational resource allocation. Simulation results verify that <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{C}^{3}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-FLOW performs superior in loss function, communication efficiency, and carbon emission reduction.