By going digital, cities embrace a data-driven approach from planning to performance, enabling digital twins for managing and operating city infrastructure, for urban planning and project visualization and for modeling and simulation to support infrastructure resilience and to collaborate with stakeholders and residents. All stakeholders–from city departments, to the city ecosystem, to its citizens–benefit from a collaborative approach to city infrastructure and services.
A digital city provides an integrated above- and below-ground information model of the city comprising the built environment and utility infrastructure.
Create and visualize city-scale models
- Create digital context of above- and below-ground assets with city-scale modeling where each digital component can be automatically recognized and/or geospatially referenced
- Navigate, find, view, and query asset information in an intuitive and immersive way
- Provide precise real-world digital context to design construction and operations
Federate data
- Have multiple contributors and multiple geometries in a single environment to align engineering data, GIS information and reality data, and operations data into an actionable digital twin of the city
- Manage and collaborate city infrastructure information in every stage of the asset lifecycle from planning to performance
- Improve asset definition, configuration, geospatial location, and change management throughout the asset lifecycle
Make decisions with data-driven, actionable insights
- Stream large-scale digital twins online and visualize projects spanning entire cities down to the street level using a combination of terrain models, reality meshes, and even semantic 3D city models
- Provide decision-makers with real, actionable information toward anticipated early warning and prompt response and can be used in the emergency management cycle of preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation.
Improve collaboration and communication
- Easily share and communicate urban planning and development projects to stakeholders
- Engage stakeholders and citizens to improve communication and feedback from master planning to project realization, allowing for decentralized collaboration