Paris — At the Salon des Maires et des Collectivités Locales, Akila, a digital-twin and artificial-intelligence platform dedicated to building performance, and Ubicité, a national operator of territorial digital solutions and a subsidiary of Altitude Group, announced a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the sustainable, long-term modernization of public buildings at scale.
Ubicité: territorial expertise serving public-sector performance
Ubicité designs, integrates and operates long-term, sovereign data-collection networks that support local authorities strengthen public-sector performance.
As a subsidiary of Altitude Group, France’s third-largest telecom-infrastructure operator, Ubicité draws on more than twenty years nationwide deployment of open and sovereign networks. This experience positions Ubicité as a trusted partner engaged in ambitious modernization strategies.
Ubicité operates across the entire value chain:
- IoT and LoRaWAN networks
- Installation and operation of sensors
- Energy and environmental monitoring
- Public-building management
- Territorial operations and field support
With UbiOne, its new 360° territorial monitoring and data-visualization platform, Ubicité provides local authorities with a unified, sovereign environment for visualizing assets, analyzing usage patterns monitoring performance indicators and supporting strategic decision-making
Merging territorial infrastructure and building intelligence
Under the partnership, Akila integrates its operational digital twin and unified data model with Ubicité’s territorial IoT ecosystem, creating a seamless digital continuum from real-time sensing through to strategic decision-making.
This collaboration builds on an initial deployment in Côte-d’Or, where Ubicité delivered a sovereign architecture for IoT and public-building data. Akila will now extend this foundation by activating its NVIDIA-powered AI agents to optimize energy performance, maintenance operations, comfort and investment planning.
“Ubicité relies on the national presence of Altitude Group to deliver reliable and sovereign digital services to local authorities. Our alliance with Akila creates a new form of digital continuity between territorial infrastructure and building optimization. It offers a concrete, operational response to the performance and sustainability challenges facing public assets.”
— Guillaume Rochette, Managing Director, Ubicité
A sovereign model for France and Europe
Akila provides a digital-twin and AI platform deployed across several million m² worldwide. Built on a semantic data model, OpenUSD integration, and a unified reference of assets, the solution turns fragmented data into actionable operational intelligence.
Its AI agents — powered by NVIDIA technologies — automatically optimise HVAC, energy consumption, maintenance, work planning and carbon performance.
“Ubicité’s territorial presence and the strength of Altitude Group make it the ideal partner to deploy the Akila digital twin at scale in France and Europe.” says Pierre-Manuel Patry, EMEA Director at Akila. “Together, we are building a fully sovereign end-to-end modelfrom the sensor layer to investment committees, delivering immediate and measurable results.”
An ambitious and replicable roadmap
The partnership includes:
- Extending the deployment in Côte-d’Or to other additional public buildings.
- Ensuring complementarity between UbiOne’s territorial monitoring platform and the Akila digital twin (building optimisation).
- Integrating Akila’s NVIDIA-based AI agents.
- Developing replicable models for municipalities, departments, metropolitan areas and regions.
- Building a 100% sovereign digital chain in cooperation with other French and European actors.
Together, Akila and Ubicité aim to provide local authorities with concrete, sovereign and AI-enabled solutions to enhance building performance, reduce carbon emissions, and modernize real-estate portfolios at scale.
