CitCom.ai gives you a secure, scalable environment to test, evaluate, and implement smart city solutions supported by AI. Be inspired by success stories, access legal guidance, ethical frameworks, and real-world demonstrations and make informed decisions while staying fully compliant. Whether running experiments, inviting vendors, or scaling your city living lab to the next level, CitCom.ai connects your city to a euopean ecosystem of responsible urban innovations.
Hans Christian Bugge
E-mail: hbu@aarhus.dk
Discover, test, and validate the right AI solutions for your urban challenges while keeping full control over your data and investments. The CitCom.ai ecosystem reduces risk, accelerates deployment, and delivers measurable Smart City impact. This is enabled by secure infrastructure, expert support, and connections to researchers, solution providers, and peer cities
CitCom.ai enables you to test and assess AI tools in controlled conditions, ensuring interoperability, avoiding vendor lock-in, and keeping operations compliant, ethical, secure, and trusted by citizens— supporting responsible and sustainable innovation.
Evaluate AI solutions in action by inviting local or European vendors to CitCom.ai’s neutral testbed. See how technologies perform in real urban conditions, compare options fairly, and make informed procurement decisions. Reduce risks and choose solutions that deliver real benefits to your city and its residents.
Access advanced AI infrastructure flexibly and cost-efficiently. Pay only for what your city uses while piloting projects, analysing data, and running Smart City initiatives. Experiment with tailor-made solutions—including local digital twins and AI—stay in control, scale as needed, and align innovation with your budget and policy goals.
Expand your city’s impact by integrating your living lab or testbed into CitCom.ai. Collaborate with other municipalities, share insights, and co-develop AI solutions that are replicable and scalable. Gain access to a broader network of innovators and improve outcomes for your citizens.
The service provides end‑to‑end support for designing, deploying, and running large‑scale distributed sensing systems, along with embedded AI/IoT software, to enable rapid experimentation with data‑driven AI solutions.
The service brings together multiple companies and key decision‑makers for a focused day of dialogue—hosted within the WE BUILD DENMARK ecosystem or at a relevant test site—to assess innovative city solutions, spark collaboration, and open pathways to new markets.
The service helps public‑sector partners design and run GDPR‑compliant generative AI pilot projects in real municipal settings—providing hands‑on experimentation, tailored support, and practical insights to guide responsible, scalable AI adoption.
Gate 21 provides tailored, structured datasets sourced from municipal systems and IoT infrastructure to help you test, benchmark, and demonstrate AI and smart‑city solutions in a real public‑sector
SUCCESS STORY. What if city traffic cameras could do more than monitor—like generate new revenue while protecting citizens’ privacy?
This pioneering EU use case shows how AI-powered cameras can securely share anonymized data through a regulated dataspace, enabling cities, researchers, and businesses to unlock new insights and business models.
Developed with partners including Felicity Smart Infrastructure, Milestone Systems, KMD, Aalborg University, and CitCom.ai, the project demonstrates how camera data can be safely transformed into valuable, compliant digital assets—opening new possibilities for smarter cities and safer traffic systems.
SUCCCESS STORY. In its ongoing ambition to improve traffic safety, flow, and smart mobility, Brussels Mobility has successfully carried out a Proof of Concept (PoC) centered around LiDAR technology.
The experiment deployed by SWARCO in collaboration with Brussels Mobility ran from January to June 2025 at the testing zone of Brussels Mobility within CitCom.ai, which supports testing and validation of smart city technologies across Europe. framework of CitCom.ai TEF.
NEWS. In CitCom, the interaction between companies, cities, and other public institutions is crucial. They can all bring different perspectives. The role of cities is largely to focus on the challenges that society faces and in this way contribute to qualifying technological development.
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