Build Smart Cities With AI

Modernize cities and urban environments with computer vision and digital twins.

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Introduction

Introduction
Use Cases
Success Stories
News and Events
Technology
Resources
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Introduction

How Smart Cities Improve Safety and Efficiency

Smart cities use generative AI, computer vision, and digital twins to enhance safety and operational efficiency across a broad range of spaces—from city streets and airports to stadiums. NVIDIA empowers an ecosystem of partners who are creating applications to develop these next-generation solutions. With platforms like NVIDIA Omniverse™ and NVIDIA Metropolis, developers can build and integrate AI agents, digital twins, and real-time video analytics into city-scale solutions.

Accelerate City-Scale AI Deployments

Learn how NVIDIA and our partners are transforming urban design and operations with the NVIDIA Smart Cities AI Blueprint.

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Build and Test Smart City AI Agents in Digital Twins

Explore the NVIDIA Blueprint for Smart City AI - a unified developer workflow that brings together simulation, AI training, and agent deployment.

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Physical AI for Smart Cities

Physical AI is revolutionizing cities by combining vision AI with digital twins to manage transportation operations, facilitate urban growth, optimize resources, and respond to complex city challenges in real time.

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Use Cases

Discover How AI Is Enabling Smarter Cities

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Design and operate smoother, more sustainable transit networks.

Discover how intelligent transportation systems (ITS) use connected sensors, scenario simulation, and video analytics AI agents to boost the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of transport infrastructure, from roadways to public transit.

Learn How to Enhance Roadway Operations and Safety

Ports

Improve efficiency, safety, and sustainability with real-time actionable insights.

Find out how ports across sea, air, and logistics hubs are using AI tools to simulate complex operations, analyze sensor data in real time, and predict disruptions—creating faster, safer, and more efficient workflows in environments where even brief downtime or delays carry enormous financial and operational risk.

Learn How NVIDIA Optimizes Port Operations

Smart Buildings

Learn how NVIDIA powers the world’s smartest spaces.

Explore ways to enhance efficiency, lower costs, and improve safety for buildings, stadiums, and campus venues with AI and digital twins.

Discover How to Boost Operational Efficiency and Safety in Physical Spaces

Success Stories

See the Real-World Impact

Learn how AI is being used to increase public safety, operational efficiency, and sustainability.

How Raleigh Enhances City Safety and Mobility with Physical AI

Customer: City of Raleigh

Products: NVIDIA DeepStream, NVIDIA Metropolis

Technologies: VLM

Smart Cities / Spaces

How Akila Is Optimizing Train Station Efficiency With Digital Twins and AI Agents

Customer: SNCF Gares & Connexions

Products: NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA Omniverse

Smart Cities / Spaces

Linker Vision Uses Vision AI to Optimize City Operations

Customer: Kaohsiung City

Products: NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA AI Blueprint for Video Search & Summarization, NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise

News and Events

Latest News and Announcements

April 28, 2026

Into the Omniverse: Manufacturing’s Simulation-First Era Has Arrived

Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a single assumption: Real-world testing was the only reliable test environment.

March 17, 2026

NVIDIA, T-Mobile and Partners Integrate Physical AI Applications on AI-RAN-Ready Infrastructure

NVIDIA and T-Mobile today announced they are working with Nokia and a growing ecosystem of developers to bring physical AI applications over distributed edge AI networks.

March 01, 2026

NVIDIA and Global Telecom Leaders Commit to Build 6G on Open and Secure AI-Native Platforms

NVIDIA today announced a commitment — together with Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp. and T-Mobile — to build the world’s next generation of wireless networks on AI-native, open, secure and trustworthy platforms.

NVIDIA Partners for Smart Cities

NVIDIA solutions for the smart cities and spaces industry go beyond products. Our partners are here to assist your organization at every level, helping you build and execute transformative AI strategies, products, and services.

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Technology

End-to-End Solutions—From Data Center to Edge to Cloud

Learn about the AI solutions powering smarter, more intelligent cities.

NVIDIA Metropolis Platform for Video Analytics

Discover Vision AI Agents

NVIDIA Metropolis is an application framework, set of developer tools, and ecosystem that brings visual data and AI together. It simplifies the development, deployment, and scaling of visual AI agents from edge to cloud—enhancing operational efficiency, transportation systems, and safety across smart cities use cases.

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Accelerate City-Scale AI

Cities across the globe are turning to digital twins and AI agents for urban planning scenario analysis, and data-driven operational decisions. The NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI provides the complete software stack needed to accelerate the development and testing of AI agents in physically accurate digital twins of cities.

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Deploy the Power of Simulation

NVIDIA Omniverse™ enables physically accurate digital twins and city-scale simulations to help cities design infrastructure, anticipate challenges, and optimize resources. NVIDIA Cosmos™ accelerates physical AI development with world models, guardrails, and data pipelines that generate synthetic data and speed up model training.

Learn About Omniverse and Digital Twins Learn About Cosmos World Models

Use vision language models to accelerate physical AI development.

Understanding Cities With Vision Language Models

NVIDIA Cosmos is a platform purpose-built for physical AI, featuring state-of-the-art generative world foundation models, guardrails, and an accelerated data processing and curation pipeline. With Cosmos, developers can accelerate physical AI development for autonomous vehicles (AVs), robots, and video analytics AI agents.

Explore Cosmos Reasons

Unlock the Power of LLMs

Large language models (LLMs) are hard to develop and maintain, requiring mountains of data, technical expertise, and massive compute. NVIDIA NeMo™ and its pretrained foundation models dramatically simplify this process. NeMo LLM service running on the NVIDIA AI platform offers the fastest path to customizing and deploying LLMs or accessing them through the API service.

Learn About the NeMo LLM Service

Improve Engagement With Speech and Translation AI

NVIDIA® Riva is a multilingual speech and translation AI SDK for building fully customizable, real-time conversational AI pipelines. These include automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech, and neural machine translation applications that can be deployed in clouds, in data centers, at the edge, or on embedded devices.

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Resources

See How AI Is Powering Intelligent Urban Environments

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How AI-RAN Turns Telecom Networks into Real-Time AI Infrastructure

Telecom infrastructure is becoming a distributed AI compute layer, unlocking smarter cities and more efficient operations.

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Build Smart City AI agents and digital twins

Build and Test Smart City AI Agents in Digital Twins

Learn how the NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI enables developers to build, train, and deploy AI agents and digital twins at scale.

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Build Smart Cities with Digital Twins and Agentic AI

Explore how NVIDIA and its global partners are using visual AI agents and digital twins to power intelligent city systems.

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Synthetic Data Generation for Traffic Scenarios

Learn how to use NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models for generating synthetic data for traffic scenarios.

Intelligent Transportation Post-Training

Find out how to perform supervised fine-tuning on NVIDIA Cosmos Reason with NVIDIA Metropolis Blueprint for scene understanding.

Traffic Anomaly Generation

Discover how to generate realistic rare-event incidents for rapid training of smart city applications.

Text-to-Image Synthetic Data Generation

Establish how to generate intelligent transportation system images using prompts tailored to roadway scenarios.

Weather Augmentation

Learn how to create synthetic weather-diverse training data from existing datasets using Cosmos Transfer.

Introducing VSS Blueprint for Smart Cities

Unlock deeper value from your video data with VSS 3's new agentic search, real-time alerts, and automatic report generation features.

NVIDIA Developer Program

Connect with millions of like-minded developers and access hundreds of GPU-accelerated containers, models, and SDKs—all the tools necessary to successfully build apps with NVIDIA technology—through the NVIDIA Developer Program.

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Build Smart Cities With AI

How Smart Cities Improve Safety and Efficiency

Accelerate City-Scale AI Deployments

Build and Test Smart City AI Agents in Digital Twins

Physical AI for Smart Cities

Discover How AI Is Enabling Smarter Cities

Intelligent Transportation Systems

Ports

Smart Buildings

See the Real-World Impact

How Raleigh Enhances City Safety and Mobility with Physical AI

How Akila Is Optimizing Train Station Efficiency With Digital Twins and AI Agents

Linker Vision Uses Vision AI to Optimize City Operations

Latest News and Announcements

NVIDIA Partners for Smart Cities

End-to-End Solutions—From Data Center to Edge to Cloud

Discover Vision AI Agents

Accelerate City-Scale AI

Deploy the Power of Simulation

Understanding Cities With Vision Language Models

Unlock the Power of LLMs

Improve Engagement With Speech and Translation AI

See How AI Is Powering Intelligent Urban Environments

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