The Asset Administration Shell is a concept that applies a practical approach to digital twins and establishes interoperability between concepts from different providers. It enables the use of different communication channels and applications and serves as a link between objects of the Internet of Things and the networked, digital and distributed world.
The Asset Administration Shell consists of a series of submodels in which all the information and functionalities of a particular asset are described. These submodels can contain features, characteristics, properties, status, parameters, measurement data and capabilities and provide standardised access, regardless of the manufacturer, across all lifecycle phases.