infrared.city and AVES Reality Demonstrate AI-Powered Urban Climate Solutions at Smart City Expo World Congress
Revolutionary Digital Twin Integration Showcases Real-Time Environmental Simulations for Future-Ready Cities
Barcelona, Spain – November 4, 2025 – At Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, infrared.city and AVES Reality are unveiling a groundbreaking demonstration that combines digital twin technology with AI powered environmental simulations to address critical urban climate resilience challenges.
The demonstration, built using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, features a high-fidelity digital twin of San Francisco developed by AVES Reality, integrated with infrared.city’s AI-powered climate simulation engine to deliver real-time analysis of urban environmental conditions critical for pedestrian safety and wellbeing.
Addressing Urban Climate Challenges Through Advanced Technology
San Francisco faces significant environmental challenges intensified by its unique urban infrastructure. Varied topography, high-rise buildings, and dense development contribute to air pollution, urban heat island effects, and complex wind patterns. The integrated urban digital twin platform helps planners address these issues through infrared.city’s AI-powered environmental simulations, providing measurable feedback on intervention proposals and supporting evidence based decision processes.
The demonstration showcases:
- Real-time wind simulation and analysis
- Outdoor thermal comfort assessment using advanced microclimate modeling
- Heat stress mapping to identify vulnerable areas
- Climate scenario comparisons for present vs. 2030-2050 projections
- Instant environmental impact visualization for proposed urban interventions
“Cities are vulnerable to impacts of climate change, and the current planning cycles can’t keep up,” said Angelos Chronis, Founder and CEO of infrared.city. “This solution shows how AI-powered simulations can transform a manual, opaque decision-making process into an automated, performance driven assessment tool that helps city planners create more resilient, equitable communities at unprecedented speed.”
Transforming Urban Planning with Digital Twins
The integration leverages the NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI, a reference workflow that enables city-scale AI that starts with simulation, fine-tuning with vision language models (VLMs), and ends with the deployment of video analytics AI agents. Infrared.city and AVES are offering a critical piece of this blueprint: using simulated data to create digital twins with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for an immersive environment where urban planners and policymakers can visualize and quantify environmental impacts before implementing real-world solutions. This capability transforms the urban planning workflow from reactive to proactive, enabling evidence-based decision-making with instant feedback.
“By combining AVES Reality’s precise digital twin technology with infrared.city’s simulation capabilities using NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI, we’re a part of this important ecosystem that are delivering the future of urban planning,” said Victor Peneff, COO of AVES Reality. “Planners can now test future interventions, in a high fidelity model of their city, and see immediate feedback on ROI with quantified climate relief benefits.”
Key capabilities demonstrated include:
- Comprehensive microclimate analysis at unprecedented speed
- Agentic AI workflows for policy-informed insights and recommendations Interactive 3D visualization for stakeholder engagement
- Cost-benefit analysis for urban interventions
From Assessment to Action
In this integrated implementation, infrared.city’s platform enables real-time access to climate impact assessment allowing cities to evaluate multiple scenarios rapidly. The AI assistant, trained on environmental policy and climate expertise, provides actionable insights and customizes the experience to a varied group of users, bridging the gap between technical analysis and policy implementation.
The demonstration represents a significant step toward democratizing access to advanced urban climate planning tools, making sophisticated environmental analysis accessible to cities of all sizes.
Visit the Demo
The demonstration will be on display throughout Smart City Expo World Congress at the Dell Technologies booth: Hall P2, Level 0, Street B, Stand 131.
About AVES Reality
AVES Reality is a geospatial AI company that transforms satellite and aerial imagery into simulation-ready 3D digital twins of urban environments. The company’s proprietary technology enables the creation of high-fidelity, georeferenced digital twin environments of any location on Earth within
minutes, eliminating the need for on-site data collection. AVES Reality’s
platform serves smart city initiatives, urban planning, and infrastructure development sectors globally, providing the foundational digital twin
infrastructure that enables advanced simulation and analysis capabilities. The company partners with leading technology providers to deliver comprehensive solutions for future-ready urban planning
About infrared.city
infrared.city is a platform for intelligent and resilient design powered by
Artificial Intelligence. The platform makes complex environmental simulations accessible and understandable for all stakeholders of the built environment. infrared.city’s state-of-the-art machine learning models provide real-time feedback on the performance of design proposals and can guide climate informed decisions at every step of the process. infrared.city simulations provide immediate feedback on the performance of design proposals and guide climate-informed decisions at every step of the process. The platform
currently provides feedback on solar radiation, sunlight, thermal comfort and wind performance with more expansive simulation services to be added shortly.
Media Contact
Victor Peneff
victor.peneff@avesreality.com