Cities and digital twins

Cool the hottest streets first, and show what each euro buys

Rank every district by heat stress, test the cooling options on the worst spots, and bring council the cost per degree and the people reached for each budget line.

Rank the city, shortlist hotspots, test options, and show council the cost per degree.

Most cities adapt wherever a project happens to start, and every budget line has to be argued for. Without numbers for the whole city, it is hard to say why one street gets trees before another.

Rank the city. The climate layer models felt heat, wind, shade and sun on all streets, combined with your population data: residents, schools, care homes, bus stops. Shortlist the hotspots. Pick the places where heat stress and exposed people overlap. Test the options. On each hotspot, compare trees, shade sails, canopies and new surfaces by cooling and cost, in seconds. Make the case. A report for council with the ranking, the cost per degree, the people reached and the method.

The what-if step on one priority area
The what-if step on one priority area

How infrared.city helps

  • Climate layer

    Starts from your city's live layer, with forecasts and 2050 scenarios.

  • Platform

    Test options on any hotspot yourself, in the browser.

  • Reports

    For council and funders: ranking, options, cost per degree, people reached and the method.

  • Integrations

    Your data, your GIS and twin, your process, connected to the same engine.

Every street modelled. Every option costed. Every budget line traceable to a number.
all streets
ranked by heat stress
seconds
per what-if on a priority area
cost per degree
for every option tested

Put the budget where it cools the most people, with the numbers to prove it.

Study

Testing options on one hotspot

Eight cooling measures on a Vienna courtyard, each with its cooling and its cost. An AI agent found that 10 trees and 2 shade sails cool the whole square by 1 K for about a third of the cost of a PV canopy.

Funded and supported by

  • NVIDIA Inception Program
  • Microsoft for Startups
  • aws Austria Wirtschaftsservice
  • FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency
  • Hub71, Abu Dhabi
  • EIT Urban Mobility, co-funded by the European Union
  • D²XCEL, European Innovation Council, funded by the European Union
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Leading Cities

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