Enterprise Digital Twin for Smart City Planning: Nokia Campus.

Nokia 5G Digital Twin – Espoo Campus

The Nokia Espoo Campus is one of Europe’s most advanced testbeds for smart city innovation. As part of the LuxTurrim5G program, it brings together 5G networks, IoT sensors, mobility services, and next-gen urban infrastructure. To manage this complexity, the consortium required a Digital Twin capable of integrating diverse datasets and supporting high-precision 5G planning at millimeter-wave frequencies.

THE CHALLENGE

Designing and optimizing FR2/mmWave 5G networks in a real urban environment introduces extreme spatial complexity. Signal quality is affected by buildings, terrain, vegetation, weather, and even passing vehicles. You can read about those challenges in this article.

The consortium needed a scalable, accurate Digital Twin to simulate a number of planning scenarios, integrate IoT devices, and support the development of new Smart City and mobility services — all without relying on costly on-site experiments.

THE SOLUTION

Together with Sitowise, we developed a high-resolution Digital Twin of the Nokia Campus, combining 3D geometry, BIM and IoT data, smart poles and autonomous vehicles into an interactive environment.

Key capabilities include:

• Advanced 5G radio simulation for small-cell FR2/mmWave networks
• Automated site candidate evaluation and antenna optimization
• Integration of multi-source geospatial, 3D, and sensor data
• Scenario testing for mobility, safety, and infrastructure planning
• Real-time visualization to support collaboration across the consortium

The system provides a unified environment for engineers, planners, and researchers to analyze, validate, and optimize Smart City concepts with high accuracy. You can see it in action beow:

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THE RESULT

The Digital Twin became the analytical backbone of the LuxTurrim5G program. It enabled:

• faster and more efficient 5G network design,
• reduced number of required antennas compared to traditional planning,
• more informed decisions for smart mobility and energy-efficient infrastructure,
• significantly lower testing and fieldwork costs,
• a reusable Digital Twin model for future urban and industrial deployments.

Today, the solution demonstrates how combining Digital Twin, 5G, IoT, and advanced simulation accelerates Smart City development and provides a scalable foundation for next-generation urban innovation.