The problem

Tasmania required an innovative digital partner to enhance its ability to respond to natural disasters and accelerate its shift toward a smarter, more connected future.

Achieving this required overcoming long-standing challenges:

• Fragmented legacy systems with limited asset visibility
• Increasing climate-related risks such as bushfires, flooding, and vegetation encroachment
• Siloed data that made strategic planning slower and less reliable
• The need for a scalable platform that could support cross-sector innovation

To build a future-ready state, Tasmania needed a unified digital environment. A platform that connects real-time infrastructure, environmental, and operational insights to improve community resilience and support economic growth.

The approach

Through our joint venture Virtual Tas, nxzen, in partnership with Tas Networks, has delivered a high‑resolution digital twin of the entire state, powered by our Digital Reality Platform.

The approach integrated:

• LIDAR, satellite, and aerial imaging for precise environment and asset capture
• Big data modelling, IoT, and real-time sensor networks to provide dynamic insights
• AI-driven analytics to identify risks, optimise network performance, and support long-term planning

Working in partnership with Tasmanian stakeholders, nxzen ensured the platform became a core operational capability, not just a one-off technology deployment.

The result is a living digital ecosystem that supports smarter decision making, stronger visibility, and improved state resilience.

The outcomes

The digital twin has become a foundational capability for Tasmania, giving authorities, utilities, and infrastructure providers real-time insights into the state's built and natural environments. This unified view is enabling:

• Statewide operational visibility. Network operators and government agencies now have a single source of truth for all above-ground assets.
• Improved climate resilience. From better vegetation insights to early-warning indicators and faster responses to bushfires and flooding.
• A stronger digital economy. Several industries now utilise the digital twin for modelling, design, and environmental intelligence.
• Next-generation agriculture. Smarter, more sustainable vegetation management, biodiversity insights, and risk mitigation.
• A repeatable model. Scalable deployment across other Australian states and global regions seeking to transform how they manage infrastructure and natural environments.