White Paper: The intelligent city stack – digital twins, AI and sovereign urban infrastructure

Climate risk, ageing infrastructure, tighter budgets and rising citizen expectations are all converging at once, forcing public authorities to rethink how urban systems are planned, operated and improved. Traditional approaches based on fragmented datasets, siloed departments and backward-looking reporting are proving insufficient.

Cities need a more connected, real-time and intelligent way of understanding how their assets, services and systems actually perform. That is where the combined rise of digital twins and AI is becoming so significant.

Inside the report, you’ll discover:

• The new model of urban intelligence that combines digital twins and AI to provide a dynamic, real-time understanding of how cities function
• How, rather than simply collecting and visualising data, cities are beginning to build environments where they can simulate, predict and optimise outcomes across multiple domains
• The importance of sovereign AI – the ability for cities to design, deploy and manage AI systems while retaining control over their data, models and infrastructure
• Real-world case studies of Monaco-Monte-Carlo railway station and Côte-d’Or in Burgundy show how the technology is already being deployed
• How cities that invest early in sovereign digital capabilities can improve resilience, productivity and public trust while also creating the conditions for wider local innovation.

Download this SmartCitiesWorld report today to find out how the combined use of AI and digital twins is helping cities create a layer of intelligence capable of transforming how public authorities understand assets, make decisions and deliver services.