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3/18/25, 1:06 PM Interview: Challenges & Opportunities in Smart, Sustainable Cities
collection and analysis and collaboration, leveraging cutting edge

technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR) to

provide real-time insights for geo-aware decision-making.

Our asset analytics capabilities from Blyncsy, are an indication

that we are listening to the market. It significantly reduces the time

and cost to both captures, analyse and classify assets and defects

in dense urban infrastructure. Similarly, our acquisition of Cesium

bolstered by significant strategic partnership with Google helps in

facilitating efficient streaming of analytics and information to various

stakeholders, further boosting data accessibility and utilization.

Yet another important innovation is the emergence of data

governance and ontology, which deals with understanding how

various datasets relate to one another and establishing proper

governance frameworks to manage these relationships effectively.

Similarly, AI agents are significantly reducing workload by actively

executing design tasks and similar operations.

With regards to Digital Twin, there are typically two philosophical

approaches in creating a Digital Twin. They can typically take a

data-centric approach or a pragmatic approach. Both approaches

have pros and cons.

In the data-centric approach, organizations focus primarily on

ensuring the correct data taxonomy and ontology before deploying a

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