Dear Reader,

In our feature update for version 2025.3 of our heatbeat Digital Twin, we would like to highlight some of the highlights of our current development. In the latest weekly updates of our Digital Twin, we would like to highlight the options for editing building data, an enhanced live dashboard and an optimized map display for municipal heat planning.

Edit buildings directly in the digital twin

In addition to the visualization of complex issues, the heatbeat Digital Twin now supports you even more with interactive functionalities. You now have the option of editing building data directly in the Digital Twin. This allows you to quickly and easily adapt changed conditions, such as a change in the connected load of a building.

Furthermore to the connected load of a building, the heated area, the year of connection, the building standard and the building name can also be edited or reset, for example. To do this, you can select the relevant building in the map view and open the editing view in the building dashboard by clicking on the building tooltip.

After editing the building data, you can redesign the network as usual and then save it in the current or a new network variant. This gives you the option of comparing the network in different variants with different building data.

A comprehensive authorization concept allows you to decide which members of your team can use the functionality. You can look forward to many more exciting interactive functions in the Digital Twin in the future!

Dashboard for generators

In our last feature update, we introduced the new live dashboard for consumers. This month, we have extended the functionality of the dashboard to the producer side: you can now call up detailed live information on the maximum heat output, heat feed-in, flow temperature, return temperature and volume flow for each generator.

The representation allows for a direct classification of the current values within the weekly progression. The visualization of daily averages as well as the weekly average enables the evaluation of the current value in the context of the last seven days and the identification of unexpected deviations. Additionally, the deviations of the current value from the weekly average are graphically highlighted to make changes easily recognizable at a glance.

Besides central key figures and a status of data transmission, you can now see the valve positions of the substations at a glance.

Improved map view for municipal heat planning

The presentation of the results of municipal heat planning is a central component of the Digital Twin. For this reason, we have integrated the categories heat supply areas and municipal heat plan into the map view.

The heat supply area category can be used to show the suitability of the various types of heat supply in the target year. The map view thus clearly visualizes the extent to which an area is suitable as a heat supply area, as an area for green gases or as an individual supply area.

Based on this data, the map view of the municipal heating plan provides a consolidated view of which type of heat supply will make sense for which area in the future. For example, the question of which areas are suitable for a decentralized heat supply in the future can be answered:

The Digital Twin is therefore able to display large amounts of data in an interactive and easy-to-process form, so that you can make the right decisions as part of your municipal heating planning.

Presentation of your contacts in the Digital Twin

If you carry out a project with heatbeat, good support from our project engineers is a matter of course. To strengthen direct contact between you and our team, we now present your contacts directly in the project.

Your personal contact is therefore always just a click away.