Business impact from concrete SmartTwin deployments.
Each case starts from an operational pain point and shows where value is created: less manual work, clearer cost ownership, faster response, lower risk or better reporting.
ODEON · Agriculture and research
A digital twin of a dairy goat herd for breeders, advisors and researchers.
Problem: Milk recording results arrive periodically as tables from the national breeding organisation. Breeders, advisors and researchers look at them separately and late, so quality problems such as high somatic cell counts or an unbalanced diet are noticed only after the fact.
Solution: SmartTwin models the farm, the herd and every individual animal, imports each control result and calculates lactation yields with the ICAR method. Thresholds recommended by the university research partner become automatic alerts, and each role gets its own view:
breeder: herd overview, animal status and open alerts,
advisor: milk quality, urea, protein and fat/protein ratio against recommended ranges,
researcher: lactations, fertility and comparisons between animals and breed averages.
Business impact: every control result immediately becomes comparable trends and alerts per animal. Advisors know which animals need attention, and researchers get structured lactation data without manual consolidation. The project shows that SmartTwin works for any asset with periodic measurements, not only for energy.
Advisor, breeder and animal views · anonymized demo data
Wiener osiguranje · Insurance, branch network
Branch cost control from invoices, with no sensors required.
Problem: Monthly invoices for electricity, heating, water, rent and services across a network of branches in several regional centres were collected and checked manually. There was no comparable view of what each branch really costs.
Solution: SmartTwin reads invoice data from the document management system into one model of regions and branches. Cost and consumption are aggregated monthly per branch and turned into KPIs such as cost per m², cost per employee and unit price of electricity. Rules flag exceptions automatically:
consumption well above the branch’s three-month average,
an unexpected increase in the unit price of energy,
water consumption spikes that point to leaks,
monthly spend above the branch budget.
Business impact: finance and facility teams see where costs originate, compare branches on the same basis and act on exceptions instead of checking every invoice. Because the starting point is existing invoice data, the first results do not depend on installing any hardware.
Illustrative SmartTwin view with anonymized demo data
RikoSmart · GoDigital 2023 award
Award-winning digital twin for smart building operations.
Problem: After handover, the builder and building owners had no single view of energy use, equipment condition and maintenance, so problems surfaced late, often as costly warranty claims.
Solution: Together with Riko d.o.o., SmartTwin became the core of RikoSmart: a digital twin of the building that monitors energy consumption and construction quality and supports predictive maintenance, for housing, manufacturing and municipal infrastructure.
Business impact: lower energy costs, fewer warranty claims and data-driven decisions for owners and operators throughout the life of the building.
GoDigital 2023: second place for the best digital project of the year
RikoSmart, developed by Smartis and Riko d.o.o., was recognised at the GoDigital 2023 conference, organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia and its Association for Informatics and Telecommunications.
GoDigital 2023 award ceremony, Brdo pri Kranju, 14 November 2023
HibroM
Unified control of a hybrid mobile microgrid.
Problem: The generator, battery, grid and loads had to operate reliably even in demanding field conditions.
Solution: SmartTwin connected them into a central digital twin with energy modes, monitoring and alerting.
Business impact: operators get a clearer control layer for complex energy assets, helping reduce operational risk and support lower fuel dependence over time.
Faster fermentation decisions at Puklavec Family Wines.
Problem: Fermentation was followed on paper sheets and separate measurements, so enologists reacted late and data for analysis was scattered.
Solution: Within the EU-funded WINE-PRO project, SmartTwin was deployed at Puklavec Family Wines to monitor fermentation temperature and sugar in real time, digitise the fermentation sheet and link process data with the carbon footprint of wine products.
Business impact: enologists can act on the fermentation process up to 24 hours faster, keep central control across the cellar and store data automatically for analysing and planning new wines.
Digital energy layer for more resilient military bases with lower diesel dependence.
Problem: Field bases are heavily dependent on diesel generators, which increases fuel use, logistics risk, emissions and the complexity of managing different energy modules.
Solution: Within the European NOMAD project, SmartTwin acts as the central digital microgrid layer for monitoring, coordination and control of generators, storage, converters, loads and base infrastructure.
Business impact: decision-makers get better control of distributed energy modules, stronger interoperability and a foundation for reducing logistics burden and reporting effort.
