NVIDIA says cities are adopting AI tools for public services and planning

NVIDIA said cities worldwide are adopting physical AI and agentic AI for resident services, traffic management and infrastructure planning, as the company outlined deployments spanning Spain, the San Francisco Bay Area, Poland, Malaysia, Nigeria and Taiwan. The announcement, published Nov. 2, said the tools are being used to turn camera feeds, sensor data and operational systems into action for public services and planning.

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NVIDIA said city teams may not need major infrastructure spending to begin building these services, noting that depending on the workload, NVIDIA RTX workstations or a small GPU system may be enough. The company described shared computing infrastructure as a common foundation for city departments, neighboring municipalities and local developers, allowing services to expand without each organization acquiring and managing separate resources.

In Spain, 1MillionBot is combining open source ALIA models trained at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center with NVIDIA Nemotron and other models in resident-service agents for Madrid Digital, Administració Oberta de Catalunya and more than 150 deployments across Spain, according to NVIDIA. The company said those systems handle municipal procedures, appointment requests, urban-planning incidents and service inquiries.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, LiveX is using NVIDIA Cosmos world models and Nemotron open models, along with Omniverse and Metropolis libraries on NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs, to build conversational AI hosts that answer questions and take action in airports, hospitals, local events and other public spaces. NVIDIA said the same approach can be tailored to local languages and service needs.

For city operations, NVIDIA said vision AI agents can analyze existing camera feeds to identify mobility and safety issues and help coordinate emergency responses. In Wrocław, Poland, K2K is building shared AI infrastructure using NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Cosmos world reasoning models and the NVIDIA Metropolis Blueprint for video search and summarization to turn existing camera streams into operational intelligence for mobility, safety and event response.

In Malaysia, ITMAX is bundling infrastructure and agentic AI applications into long-term managed services for cities, including traffic management. NVIDIA said ITMAX’s SamurAI V2 vision agents, built with reference to Cosmos, Nemotron and the Metropolis VSS blueprint, are scaling on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs to support more than 17,000 cameras by 2027. The company also said ITMAX integrates Laplace Intelligence’s TeraSim traffic simulation platform to test signal timing and reduce peak-hour corridor travel times by up to 26%.

The announcement also highlighted digital twin use cases beyond public-facing services. At Dangote’s Lekki refinery in Nigeria, Honeywell Technologies’ Forge Plant Cognition uses Nemotron-powered AI agents to interpret operational data, while a digital twin built with Omniverse libraries is planned to support simulation and training. NVIDIA said the platform runs on Dell PowerEdge servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO accelerators and is intended to help operators identify bottlenecks and anticipate equipment and process issues.

In Taiwan, Linker Vision and Dutch architecture firm MVRDV are using NVIDIA Omniverse and Nemotron to build environmental, social and governance agents that assess the environmental impact of urban planning scenarios. NVIDIA said the system can simulate 15-year outcomes of an urban forest canopy in 10 minutes, reducing design iteration time from two weeks per iteration to less than an hour.

The company also pointed to a broader local AI ecosystem. At Morocco’s Tanger Med port, Cires Technologies is expanding a sovereign AI factory for planned applications in worker safety, congestion analysis, cargo routing and port operations. Separately, Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme gives startups access to sovereign computing, technical support and training across areas including agriculture, medical imaging, knowledge access and speech services.

NVIDIA said the developments will be featured at Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, running Nov. 3-5, where Vice President of EMEA Paolo Guglielmini is scheduled to deliver a keynote address followed by a panel moderated by Charbel Aoun, director of smart city and spaces for EMEA at NVIDIA.