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Our recent research, based on data from all of CitCom.ai’s 16 test sites and 26 different experiments, reveals that AI innovators find it difficult to navigate EU’s inner workings on AI regulations. It is therefore not surprising that this TEF-service also made it to the top of the list of our most popular services.
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Services

Services at Citcom.ai testing and experimentation facilities are organized into 7 distinct categories.

Service Categories
Physical Facility Services
Selected TEF nodes offer physical services, enabling AI innovators to test solutions in city zones, reducing deployment time. Citizen engagement and regulatory sandbox preparation enhance legal compliance and scenario creation.
Virtual Facility Services
Services providing easy and remote access to computing resources. As well as large datasets allowing real-time analysis and historical data exploration, enhancing decision-making.
Algorithm Creation & Validation
Services involving data collection, preprocessing, machine learning frameworks, model training, evaluation, hyperparameter tuning, deployment, scalability, and continuous improvement.
Compliance & ethics assistance
Services ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards. Compliance assistance includes audits, program development, and training to mitigate risks, while ethics assistance promotes integrity. Security measures prioritize data protection.
Impact assessment
These services assess the desirability and viability of AI innovations, examining their impact on the environment, stakeholders, and end-users.
Opportunity Assessment & Scoping
Services that help identify opportunities, define innovation scope, and align stakeholders, while also mitigating risks by evaluating financial viability, technical feasibility, and cities’ needs.
Ecosystem Engagement
Services focusing on bringing together stakeholders around AI innovation to exchange knowledge, collaborate on research & development projects & develop a vibrant R&D community.
Access to wide range of traffic data for AI training 
Deploy and test traffic solution in a real-life traffic environment 
Traffic solution integration and experimentation 
Access to Mechelen’s mobility and logistic data  
Install and/or test novel solutions in the city of Mechelen
Assistance in the procurement and administrative process
DK2020 potential analysis as a service
Matchmaking as a service
Site as a service
Access to utility data for AI training
Data enrichment
Robotics & AI Technology Test & Experimentation
Robotics & AI technology screening & integration support
Robotics safety including sandbox testing
Data & AI ethics evaluation
Read Traffic Video Data
Read Sound Array Data
XIL Immersive and interactive simulation
Test track and physical bench
AI evaluation and compliance
AI evaluation and compliance
Robot test in public environment
Access to Smart City data for AI innovation
Create a custom IoT Smart City dataset for AI innovation
Global Service Approach
Feasability of the implementation of a service for the Italian market
Embedded AI/IOT Software Design and Development
Large-scale distributed sensing
Legal evaluation guidance
Fair data! Lab Track services: Action-driven Ethics Introduction workshop
Verification of AI models
Development and testing of AI algorithms
Dissemination and Communication of AI activities
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Access to AI training data and platform services. Development and testing of AI algorithms
Access to DOLL International Visitor Service and matchmaking.
Access to We Build Denmark (WBDK) extensive partner eco-system, network groups, workshops and conferences
Deploy, test and demonstrate 1:1 scale use-case in real-life city environment (near Copenhagen)
Innovation assessment and scoping of real-life physical use-case in scale of 1:1
Innovation assessment and scoping of digital use-case in local city digital twin
Innovation assessment and scoping of virtual scenario creation
Virtual scenario creation: Application-based to demonstrate meaning and implication of 'smartness' to a city challenge.
Data integration to local city digital twin. Data quality test and validation support
Data smart modelling readiness test and validation support
Access to wide range of IoT data for AI training 
Test track and physical bench
Test area for XR/VR solutions
Access to wide range of geospatial data for AI training for the area of whole Poland
Laboratories for testing devices and applications
Advanced IT infrastructure to conduct geospatial analysis and satellite computing (spatial big data type)
Digital Opportunity assessement for Artificial intelligence
Local Digital Twin for electromobility
Charger Occupancy Optimiser

Supernodes

North

The Nordic Supernode is focused on the theme “POWER”. The 9 Nodes are based in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark and work in areas that support smart cities and communities and focus on energy, environmental solutions, cyber security, ethics and edge learning.

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  • We Build Denmark/DOLL, City of Albertslund; Teddy Axelsen & Clara Røder      
  • GovTech Midtjylland/ Aarhus City Lab; Signe Marie Skovby Ahm
  • Technical University of Denmark; Rasmus Sune Reeh  
  • Danish Technological Institute; Frederik Poulsen
  • Center Denmark; Thomas Thue Sørensen
  • Gate21; Morten Koed Rasmussen
  • Business Tampere; Markku Niemi      
  • RISE, Kista, Stockholm, Borås; Alex Jonsson

Central

The Central Supernode revolves around the “Move” theme. The node focuses more specifically on challenges related to mobility and logistics in cities and communities in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and France.

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  • imec, City of Mechelen; Thomas Kusmirczak & Julie Grauls      
  • Brussels; Karl-Filip Coenegrachts
  • Eindhoven; Niels Wiersma
    LNE (SYSX, UGE, UTAC); Rémi REGNIER
  • Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST); German Castignani

South

The Southern Supernode revolves around the CONNECT theme. The supernode focuses more specifically on the need to connect citizens, infrastructures, AI and robotics services securely in cities and communities. This theme and super node will focus on innovations that provide intelligence to local infrastructures and cross sectoral services in cities. The South Supernote counts partners from Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany.

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  • Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI); Luca Mottola
  • Municipality of Valencia (VAL); Ernesto Faubel
  • Warsaw University of Technology; Agnieszka Wendland