Today at NVIDIA’s EMEA Partner Day Keynote and Award Ceremony, Akila received the 2026 NVIDIA Industry Innovation Award.
The category recognizes one partner each year in the region for outstanding efforts, dedication and innovative spirit in the use of NVIDIA technologies.
For Akila, the award follows a year of collaboration work with NVIDIA, including presentations at GTC Paris and Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona. It also marks a year in which Akila moved from the NVIDIA Inception program into the NVIDIA Partner Network as an ISV partner. These demonstrations focused on large-scale, semantically rich digital twins for transport hubs, including SNCF Gares&Connexions, and smart campus environments such as UM6P, using NVIDIA Omniverse for visualization and simulation and NVIDIA Metropolis for vision AI and video analytics, alongside other NVIDIA technologies supporting operational use cases in the built environment.
Building the Operating System for Cognitive Buildings and Smart Spaces
The recognition of Akila points to a challenge that is becoming increasingly clear across the built environment. Buildings, campuses, infrastructure and cities are among the world’s largest and most operationally complex asset classes, carrying high capital value, major energy demands, significant safety responsibilities, and broad social and environmental impact. Yet much of the operational data within these environments remains fragmented across disconnected systems.
The work recognized through this award centers on using digital twin technology, AI agents and simulation to help bring those systems into a more unified operational environment. In Akila’s platform, data from building management systems, IoT, energy systems, CCTV, enterprise software, GIS and human activity can be connected in a way that gives operators a more complete and contextual view of how complex assets are performing. By combining live operational data, visualization, reasoning and simulation, Akila’s approach supports diagnostics, predictive operations and scenario-based decision-making across real-world environments.
This has been applied to a range of operational use cases in the built environment, including energy and airflow optimization, crowd and event management, safety monitoring, on-site performance simulation, multi-system orchestration and autonomous inspection.
It is also work carried out across a broad range of environments, from universities and large campuses to municipalities, transport infrastructure, logistics hubs, industrial facilities, shopping malls, mixed-use developments and office portfolios. Across these contexts, the operational focus has remained consistent: improving visibility, accelerating response, supporting better coordination and helping teams manage assets more effectively over time.
NVIDIA technologies referenced in selection process include:
- NVIDIA Omniverse — visualization and simulation for large-scale digital twins
- NVIDIA Metropolis — vision AI and video analytics
- NVIDIA Cosmos Reason — contextual reasoning workflows
- NVIDIA Isaac — robotics applications
For Akila, the award marks recognition from NVIDIA of a year of development and demonstration work at the intersection of digital twins, AI and operational technology in the built environment.
