Two out of every three people are likely to be living in cities or other urban centers by 2050, according to the United Nations, meaning about 2.5 billion people could be added to urban areas by the middle of the century. This highlights an urgent need for more sustainable urban planning and public services.
The smart traffic management market alone is projected to reach $20 billion by 2027 as cities deploy AI to accommodate growing population density and tourism-driven congestion.
Improved traffic management is just one way AI is enhancing public spaces, transit and city processes - with many physical AI technologies being showcased at the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) taking place this week in Barcelona.
At the event, NVIDIA's expanding ecosystem of physical AI partners will be on full display - including simulation and mapping companies, software vendors, manufacturers, systems integrators, and cloud and edge providers - all exhibiting their latest smart spaces applications.
The NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI - announced in June at NVIDIA GTC Paris - combines digital twins with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, synthetic data generation, AI model training with vision language models (VLMs) and video analytics AI agents using the NVIDIA Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS).
These work together in a single, streamlined workflow, enabling rapid simulation of real-world urban conditions, vast sensor integration and real-time vision AI.
Updates to the blueprint include new NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models and VLMs to generate photorealistic synthetic data and provide physical reasoning capabilities, as well as the latest version of the VSS blueprint - part of the NVIDIA Metropolis platform for training and building vision AI agents and applications.
Access step-by-step intelligent traffic system workflows and technical recipes in new cookbooks for NVIDIA Cosmos Predict, NVIDIA Cosmos Transfer and NVIDIA Cosmos Reason.
Learn more about how five leading companies are using these NVIDIA technologies to bring secure, scalable physical AI to more cities, including Dublin, Ireland; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Five NVIDIA Partners Showcase New Physical AI Technologies at SCEWC Urban populations are soaring, infrastructure is aging, and challenges like traffic congestion, climate resilience and real-time safety demand new levels of responsiveness and intelligence.
But integrating these video- and data-intensive systems isn't just a matter of upgrading old infrastructure. Smart city deployments require a seamless fusion of next-generation AI, cloud and edge computing, ultrafast networking and open data platforms. A global ecosystem of partners, such as the ones highlighted below, must come together to solve these technological and real-world challenges for city-scale AI solutions.
Esri, in Collaboration with Microsoft and NVIDIA Mapping and spatial analytics company Esri is working with NVIDIA and Microsoft to build an AI agent that ingests, analyzes and visualizes massive amounts of camera data to generate real-time alerts and insights in an interactive geospatial map for the City of Raleigh in North Carolina.
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An interactive geospatial map of Raleigh with a video analytics AI agent processing live sensor data. Images courtesy of Esri and the City of Raleigh.
This will enable city operators to quickly respond and notify key departments to efficiently resolve issues, optimize traffic flows and improve infrastructure design, boosting overall urban mobility. Tapping into components of the NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI will enable the city to discover, aggregate and manipulate data to help address key resident concerns, automate streetlight timing to reduce road delays and decrease carbon emissions from cars sitting in traffic.
Milestone Systems Milestone Systems is now introducing generative AI to its XProtect video management platform - allowing users to easily extract valuable analyses and insights from their video streams and libraries, review alerts and automatically generate reports. This functionality is powered by NVIDIA Cosmos Reason VLMs that Milestone post-trained with 75,000 hours of compliant traffic video, for each VLM, from either Europe or the U.S.
Milestone is also offering these specialized VLMs-as-a-service to developers to build innovative applications. General availability is expected later this year.
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XProtect customers can easily add these new, GDPR-compliant features and add an additional layer of intelligence by contextualizing video, scheduling insights and providing on-demand reporting and automatic review of alerts. These features could reduce up to 30% of operator alarm fatigue by automating video review and filtering out false alarms. Cities like Dubuque, Iowa, and Genoa, Italy, are planning to try these new capabilities, adopting advanced video intelligence solutions to enhance traffic management.
Linker Vision Linker Vision, a pioneer in deploying the end-to-end NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI, is bringing physical AI to Ho Chi Minh City and Danang in Vietnam.
Building on its success in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, where its vision AI platform cut incident response times by up to 80%, Linker Vision, tapping into AVES Reality's simulation-ready 3D digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse, is now harnessing the blueprint to develop city-scale AI solutions that can simulate and monitor traffic and construction activities, helping ensure projects stay on schedule while improving urban mobility and operational efficiency.
Bentley Systems, in Collaboration With VivaCity Ireland's Smart Dublin organization addresses urban challenges wit
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Two out of every three people are likely to be living in cities or other urban centers by 2050, according to the United Nations, meaning about 2.5 billion people could be added to urban areas by the middle of the century. This highlights an urgent need for more sustainable urban planning and public services.
