Cities and infrastructure managers operate in an increasingly complex context. Budget pressures, aging assets, higher environmental requirements, and elevated citizen expectations mean that decision-making today involves balancing many variables at once.
In this environment, one thing becomes clear: the quality of decisions depends directly on the quality of the data on which they are based.
🏙️ A New Era in City Management
Territories generate vast amounts of information, but this data is often fragmented, heterogeneous, or difficult to use.
Teams have to deal with multiple tools, one-off surveys, and data that quickly becomes outdated.
The challenge is no longer just collecting data, but having a coherent, continuous, and shared vision of the territory. This vision is what enables organizations to better plan, prioritize, and coordinate their actions
📐 Beyond Visualization: Measurable Territory Knowledge
Once seen mainly as a 3D visualization tool, the digital twin today is much more. It represents a faithful, measurable, and exploitable representation of the territory, enriched with high-precision field data. Within Jakarto’s approach, the digital twin enables users to:
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Measure distances, heights, and clearances,
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Extract precise geographic positions,
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Document real-world infrastructure as it exists on the ground.
This transforms the territory into a shared source of truth that is both accessible and measurable.
🤖 Automating Asset Inventory for Better Management
Asset management still too often relies on manual inventories that are partial or costly to keep up to date. Roads, trees, signage, aerial networks, and urban equipment constantly change. With artificial intelligence and digital twin data, it becomes possible to:
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Automate asset inventory,
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Standardize the attributes collected,
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Reduce costs and field interventions,
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Update data more frequently.
Inventory is no longer a one-off exercise, but a continuous operational process.
🔗 Interoperable Data to Break Down Silos
One of the major obstacles to organizational effectiveness is the fragmentation of systems and data. Every department often has its own tools, limiting collaboration and slowing decision-making. The digital twin acts as a common geospatial foundation capable of:
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Integrating with existing systems (GIS, CMMS, business tools),
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Centralizing field data,
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Facilitating information sharing across teams.
Urban planning, public works, engineering, urban forestry, and environmental departments can finally rely on a consistent common data foundation.
🗺️ Territorial Coverage: A Strategic Advantage
Having precise data is essential. Having this data at the scale of an entire territory radically changes how infrastructure is managed. Continuous coverage provided by Jakarto allows:
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Comparing different sectors of a territory,
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Identifying priority areas,
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Anticipating future needs,
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Supporting medium and long-term planning.
Data no longer serves only to document the existing situation, but becomes a tool for anticipation and proactive planning.
🚀 2026 and Beyond: Building on a Sustainable Foundation
As we approach 2026, one conviction guides our approach: the most resilient cities will be those that have invested in a reliable, evolving, and reusable data foundation. The digital twin is not an end in itself, but a foundation for:
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Integrating new data sources,
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Enriching future analyses,
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Supporting innovation,
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Accompanying the digital transformation of territories.
At Jakarto, we will continue to develop this foundation alongside our partners and clients, giving a new dimension to territorial knowledge.
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