Why next-generation tech is the next leap towards cities of the future

Bentley Systems is a Business Reporter client How AI and digital twins have helped five European cities make their infrastructure more sustainable. Many users across the UK and EU and elsewhere around the world have already deployed digital twins to build, upgrade and operate their water systems. Helsinki’s Environmental Services Authority, Silo AI, worked with Bentley Systems to build a digital twin of the heating system. To improve water and wastewater regulation in the city of Kozani, in northern Greece, local officials worked with DEYAK Water Utility and Bentley to build a water digital twin to map and analyse the water system, which supplies the city’s 60,000 residents. AI and digital twin technologies enabled Société Wallonne des Eaux to quickly survey the tower’s damage and accurately plan renovation work There’s no doubt that, as predictions of climate change become reality, our lives are becoming less predictable and the infrastructure they depend on more vulnerable.