Focus on sustainable cities and communities

Machine learning-aided thermography for building heat loss detection

University of Waterloo 21 Jun 2024

Machine learning can automate building energy diagnostics using thermal imaging.

Deep learning model trained to identify least green homes

University of Cambridge 16 Nov 2023

AI model can help policymakers efficiently identify and prioritize houses for retrofitting and other decarbonizing measures.

UrbanTwin: seeing double for sustainability

EPFL 26 Jan 2023

A digital twin for urban infrastructure: assessing the effectiveness of climate-related policies and actions.

Keeping one step ahead of earthquakes

Horizon 04 Jan 2022

Damaging earthquakes can strike at any time. While we can’t prevent them from occurring, we can make sure casualties, economic loss and disruption of essential services are kept to a minimum.

Harnessing the power of AI to elucidate mobile traffic consumption at city scale

Paul Patras 15 Dec 2021

Mobile traffic analysis can provide many insights. Find out more about work on obtaining high-resolution traffic maps using AI methods and aggregate data.

Smart cities and AI

Beril Sirmacek 03 Dec 2021

In this video lecture, Beril Sirmacek talks about research using AI methods to help to make cities more environmentally friendly.

AIhub launches focus series on sustainable cities and communities

AIhub 03 Dec 2021

We are now publishing articles on the latest topic in our series on the UN sustainable development goals.