Shizuoka University sought to investigate group disease control measures in a school environment from an epidemiological perspective by determining high-risk situations. The study required developing technology for determining contact and measuring positions of communication between smartphones and devices within the school, as well as providing an accurate understanding of the space. The team needed to create a 3D reality model of the school to perform disease control simulations in a digital twin environment.

They selected ContextCapture to process images of the entire interior and exterior of the school into a 3D reality mesh in a virtual space. They overlapped behavioral data, collected via a smartphone application measuring individual contact, with the reality model and used Hamamatsu City’s data integration platform to perform disease control simulation. Using the digital twin, they analyzed the results, identifying high-risk situations, and investigated measures for disease control, providing advice at the regional municipality level to develop appropriate disease mitigation policies.