A food bank is a warehouse that runs in reverse. Donations, USDA commodities and purchased food arrive at the docks, volunteers sort what was rescued from grocery stores, pallets go into dry racking, the cooler and the freezer, the community kitchen turns some of it into meals, and partner agencies collect the rest for pantries and shelters across 21 counties. This page follows one simulated day of that flow, in the same metric frame as the 3D twin.
Today at a glance
Supply chain, today's plan
Band width is pounds planned for today; hover a band for how much has moved so far.
Site plan
Fill shows how full each area is. Areas marked with a camera are captured from video; select one to see it in 3D.
Community kitchen
Inventory
Days of supply against each family's target (the tick). Stock carries over from day to day.
| Family | Stored in | On hand | Pallets | Days of supply | In today | Out today | Shelf life | Status |
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Inbound trucks
| Load | From | Lbs | Door | Due | Status |
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Next partner pickups
| Order | Agency | Lbs | Door | Due | Status |
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How this fits the twin
- Video to digital twin. The racking aisle, sorting room, client market and community kitchen are captured from walkthrough video. Each area on the plan above is a footprint in the twin's metric frame, so the capture, the data and the renderer agree on where things are.
- Existing data on AWS. The same Lambda that serves the cold-chain sensors answers
GET /operationswith inventory, flows, dock loads and kitchen batches. Today it is a deterministic simulator; a warehouse management system, a donor portal or the kitchen's production sheets can replace it behind the same JSON. - Omniverse as the visualisation layer. twin.usda opens the captured zones and operations.usda together in one frame. Every area, kitchen station and flow is an OpenUSD prim keyed by the same ids as the API, ready to bind to the live feed in Omniverse (or Blender).
Central Texas Food Bank is the inspiration, not a replica. Published figures (yearly pounds, partner agencies, kitchen size and equipment) are cited below; everything else is a modelling estimate marked in the master data.