Dispersed, static data in systems without integration, communication, or automation. The descriptive twin informs about the current state of the real-world asset. The descriptive twin presents past and current values of some of the real-world asset characteristics. These characteristics can be static (e.g. a building geometry) or dynamic (e.g. sensor measurements). The connection between the real-world asset and the Digital Twin is bidirectional: a change made in the descriptive twin is reflected (in real-time or not) on the real world asset (actuation). The descriptive twin capability does not restrict to metrics collected from the real-world asset and can be augmented with computed functions (e.g. distance to a fix point of a moving real world asset; deviation from normal of a room temperature).