VIZZIO partners with ST Engineering to enhance smart city solutions with global real-time 3D city metaverse

SINGAPORE, 7 November 2022 - VIZZIO Technologies and ST Engineering’s Urban Solutions business today announced their collaboration to enhance smart city solutions with global real-time 3D City Metaverse. VIZZIO will provide 3D mapping, modelling and visualisation technologies to Urban Solutions’ building and infrastructure management solutions for smart city projects in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and United Arab Emirates.

Connecting the dots between the built environment’s infrastructure and user experience, Urban Solutions’ AGIL Smart City Operating System (OS) creates a greener, more resilient ecosystem that supports business and sustainability goals. The platform integrates operational and information technology systems to fast-track the digitalisation and automation of estate and building operations and facility management. Apart from optimising process flows, workforce deployment and resource management, the unified AGIL Smart City OS provides a bird's-eye view of key assets and their performances, analyses data from various infrastructure systems to predict and pre-empt incidents and proactively respond and adapt to changes in the environment. The collaboration with VIZZIO will enhance and hasten the progress and efficiency of the AGIL Smart City OS to provide real-time data for the sub-systems managed.

In an era of limited resources, time and people, smart city solutions harness digital innovation and enable faster, smarter and sharper integrated operations. The partnership with VIZZIO brings further incorporation of technology with process innovations to enhance situational awareness, makes sense of insightful data and trends for better decision-making, allowing optimised performance and full accessibility of managed assets and services such as tracking of electric vehicle chargers across cities, energy consumption and sustainability outcomes, among others.

VIZZIO's AI-based tools will enhance the AGIL Smart City OS, eliminate the need for human intervention and significantly reduce the time taken to process massive point clouds for better visibility and control. This results in more accurate models and less re-work which is beneficial to Urban Solutions for its large-scale deployments.

Chew Men Leong, President, Urban Solutions at ST Engineering, said, “The combination of VIZZIO’s expertise in city-scale, high-fidelity 3D modelling with our smart utilities and infrastructure management solutions will unlock new possibilities in real-time visualisation, enabling a better user experience for our customers. The technology holds much untapped potential and we are pleased to collaborate with VIZZIO to enhance our Smart City offerings.”

As part of the collaboration, VIZZIO will create a Global Digital Twin (a digital mirror to the world) for facility managers and engineers at Urban Solutions. VIZZIO maps and models world cities into high-fidelity 3D models using its patented algorithms AI and satellite imagery. The dashboard will first create 3D city models, covering land area, empowering facility managers to embark on research and development and conduct virtual experimentation, decision- making, promoting sandboxing innovation and test-bedding efforts while providing a powerful tool for visual storytelling and simulations. 3D City models will also help Urban Solutions’ employees analyse the limitations and complications that often impact smart city projects, tapping on real-time data feeds and AI predictive analytics to improve energy-efficient urban development and deliver sustainable digital-first solutions for people, places and the planet.

“We are delighted to be able to bring technological excellence to cities as they get smarter and become more liveable and responsive. We recognise our ability and responsibility to make an impact on urban environments by collaborating with corporations like ST Engineering and also governments to deliver beneficial digital services designed to improve the lives of citizens all around the world,” said Jon Lee, CEO/Founder of VIZZIO Technologies Pte Ltd.

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