Overview

Our Mission: 

To advance the digital and smart management of slope safety for enhancing landslide risk preparedness and management capabilities under extreme storms and strong earthquakes, thereby increasing public safety and enabling the sustainable and resilient development of Hong Kong and other regions.

Our Goals: 

• To develop a world-leading digital twin for sensing, simulating, and visualising landslide hazards and for coordinating societal responses.
• To create a new paradigm of natural hazard emergency risk management science in the digital era.

Deliverables
 

• A unique simulation-enabled city-scale digital twin for the Hong Kong slope safety system and its surrounding built environment.
• A real-world slope and urban sensing system featuring an integrated space-aerial-terrestrial sensing network and a next-generation hybrid wireless mesh communication network.
• Innovative physics-based and data-driven digital twin simulators to nowcast full-process landslide hazards and societal responses under extreme storms and strong earthquakes.
• Revolutionary computer graphics-empowered digital twin engines for real-time simulation and visualisation of landslide hazards and societal responses in the digital twin.
• A world-leading prompt landslide risk assessment system to evaluate real-time risks across complex urban systems.
• A pioneering digital twin-empowered operating platform with an augmented virtual reality environment for interactive decision-making, emergency management, and public education.
   

Strategy