Educational institutions today face a unique combination of operational pressures. Campuses are growing more complex to manage, students and faculty expect safer and more responsive environments, and administrators are under increasing pressure to reduce energy consumption and meet sustainability targets. As these needs expand, campuses must look for tools that provide better visibility, faster decision making, and long-term resiliency.

Akila supports this transformation by bringing campus operations, energy management, maintenance, and video intelligence together into a single, unified platform. For schools, universities, and research facilities, this creates a clearer, more actionable understanding of how their campuses are performing in real time.

Modern challenges across campus operations

Most educational environments face a similar set of hurdles. Large campuses often rely on aging or inconsistent infrastructure, with HVAC, utilities, and equipment spread across many different building types. Energy consumption is high, especially in spaces such as labs, dormitories, and lecture halls. Maintenance teams struggle with limited visibility and reactive workflows. On top of this, institutions need faster ways to understand what’s happening across campus – whether an incident needs review, a crowded area needs attention, or a room’s usage patterns suggest a better scheduling or energy strategy.

These challenges create inefficiencies that impact sustainability, campus experience, operational continuity, and planning.

A unified digital foundation for smarter campuses

Akila addresses these challenges through a holistic approach that connects building systems, equipment data, IoT devices, and video sources into a single platform. This gives administrators, facility teams, and safety staff a shared operational picture of the entire campus.

Optimized energy and HVAC performance

AI-driven analytics help institutions better understand how their buildings consume energy, alert teams to anomalies, and automatically adjust HVAC systems according to occupancy and usage patterns. Whether for classrooms, research spaces, or residential buildings, Akila delivers more efficient performance while still maintaining comfort and reliability. Clear energy baselining and carbon tracking also help institutions align to sustainability commitments and regulatory requirements.

Predictive maintenance and digital twin visualization

A campus-scale digital twin brings every asset and building into a clear 3D view, allowing teams to quickly locate equipment, understand system relationships, and respond faster. Condition-based maintenance ensures that faults are detected early and repairs are scheduled before they disrupt classes or operations. As campuses expand, this digital foundation becomes a critical tool for planning and long-term lifecycle management.

Video analytics for faster insights

As campus environments grow more dynamic, the ability to quickly understand what happened in a specific area or timeframe becomes increasingly important.

Akila integrates Video Search and Summarization (VSS) to make video data more accessible and efficient to use. Instead of manually reviewing long footage, teams can use AI to instantly search for relevant moments or generate concise summaries around an event window or location. This supports faster incident verification, better coordination, and a clearer understanding of activity patterns across the campus.

VSS is not positioned as surveillance technology – it is an operational intelligence tool that helps education institutions gain insights quickly, improve response times, and make more informed decisions about space utilization and campus planning.

Creating better learning environments

When energy management, maintenance, and video intelligence operate through a unified platform, campuses experience tangible improvements.

• Learning spaces stay more comfortable and consistent.
• Maintenance issues are addressed proactively rather than reactively.
• Activity patterns reveal how buildings are truly used, supporting smarter scheduling and resource allocation.
• Campus teams gain faster access to critical information during incidents or peak activity periods.
• Sustainability strategies align more closely with real operational data.

These outcomes directly support the core mission of education institutions: providing safe, healthy, and empowering environments for students and staff.

Designed to scale across diverse campus environments

Akila is designed to scale seamlessly from single buildings to multi-campus portfolios. Institutions can standardize energy reporting, maintenance workflows, and operational practices across all locations while maintaining the flexibility needed for different building types and usage patterns.

This approach provides administrators with long-term digital governance and ensures consistency even as campuses expand, renovate, or adapt to new operational demands.

Building the future of digital education infrastructure

The future of campus operations will rely on integrated digital systems that combine energy intelligence, predictive maintenance, real-time visualization, and rapid video-based insights. By bringing these capabilities together, Akila helps educational institutions move toward safer, more efficient, and more sustainable campuses — all while empowering teams to make better decisions every day.

Following Akila’s participation in the Smart Cities Expo World Conference in Barcelona, where Akila held demos for its recent AI and digital twin projects in the campus and transport sectors, NVIDIA has profiled Akila alongside Milestone Systems and K2K as part of its thought leadership piece “Physical AI for Smart Cities: Simulate and Build City-Scale AI Agents”.

The profile places Akila in the context of an industry-wide rise in Physical AI applications, including:

• Milestone – turning citywide video into actionable insights

• K2K – (a co-presented with Akila at SCEWC) real-time neural networks for urban infrastructure

Akila was profiled for its deployment of AI agents in its semantically-rich digital twin to increase energy efficiency and operational efficiency, with extracts from its Omniverse-native project with SNCF. In that project, Akila built on its native format of OpenUSD and integrating NVIDIA Omniverse, the project created a rich simulation environment in which Akila integrated data from a number of data intensive systems for energy, maintenance and passenger flow and used its integration with Omniverse to visualize simulations including:

• HVAC performance

• Human traffic in busy areas

• Airflow

• Thermal conditions

• Lighting

This deployment is one example in a growing pipeline of projects where Akila is bringing its semantically rich digital twin to bring AI insights and agentic control into the physical world.

“What we’re doing with Akila is working with operators of large-scale portfolio of buildings and infrastructure, and we are helping them to transform and make their buildings and their portfolio more efficient. We are developing specifically AI agents to accelerate the decarbonization of our clients’ portfolios. So the AI agents will detect across a large volume of buildings and infrastructure.”

– Francois Amman (CEO of Akila)

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.

Jotun, the global paints and coatings manufacturer operating in more than 100 countries, has selected Akila to deploy an AI-driven energy platform across its worldwide manufacturing portfolio.

Akila is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Jotun Group to deploy a unified energy-intelligence layer across Jotun’s production facilities worldwide. Headquartered in Norway and recognized as a leading manufacturer in its sector, Jotun operates extensive industrial sites across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South East Asia & Pacific, North East Asia, Latin America and the Americas.

This program represents one of the most significant global energy-intelligence initiatives undertaken by Akila to date, establishing asset-level monitoring and portfolio-wide optimization from the outset—and positioning Jotun to unlock measurable savings across its global network.

Transforming Industrial Energy Management Across a Global Portfolio

Akila’s AI energy platform will integrate with Jotun’s existing metering and control infrastructure, while working with Jotun to add and integrate new sensors and gateways as required to reinforce and expand their data-capture infrastructure. All data—whether from existing or supplemental sources—will be unified within a single platform serving as the energy-intelligence layer across the portfolio.

The platform will deliver a unified data model for all energy-related insight, enabling Jotun to:

• Monitor electricity, energy quality, HVAC performance, compressed air, natural gas and other utilities across critical production assets
• Detect significant energy users and anomalies early and at scale
• Benchmark and optimize performance across regions, facilities and processes
• Reduce energy waste and improve operational efficiency across Scope 1 and Scope 2
• Track carbon footprints and align decisions with sustainability targets
• Apply AI-driven analytics for deviation detection, automated baseline comparison and actionable optimization recommendations

This unified approach ensures that operational teams gain consistent, portfolio-wide intelligence capable of driving targeted improvements and measurable cost reductions.

Accelerating Impact With Actionable Insight

Rapid deployment is central to this program. With Akila’s platform architecture, Jotun will begin receiving actionable insight within the first three months—enabling teams to identify savings opportunities quickly and apply corrective actions across the portfolio.

Historically, similar deployments have generated measurable savings of 3–5%, and this program aims to replicate and further improve energy savings across Jotun’s global manufacturing network.

A Milestone in Akila’s Portfolio-Level Vision

“Partnering with Jotun at this scale is a defining moment for Akila,” said Philippe Obry, Vice President, Akila. “This is exactly what the Akila platform was built for—centralizing industrial data at the global portfolio level to unlock advanced analytics, benchmarking and a clear pathway toward AI-driven optimization and asset performance.”

A Shared Commitment to Efficiency and Sustainability

“We selected Akila because their platform met our rigorous technical and safety requirements and demonstrated the transparency and collaboration we value,” said Trine Finnevolden, Group Technical Director HSEQ at Jotun. “This partnership will enable us to unlock new levels of energy performance, operational insight, and sustainability across our global manufacturing network.”

Akila is proud to support Jotun’s leadership in energy efficiency, operational excellence and sustainable industrial growth—setting a new benchmark for AI-led energy management across a global portfolio.

Ben Guerir, Morocco — November 5, 2025 — Akila has launched a campus-scale digital twin for Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), establishing an AI infrastructure that spans 50 buildings across a 55-hectare site, home to more than 7,000 students. Built leveraging NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI, a reference architecture to build, train, and deploy city-scale AI. The project maps to the blueprint workflow showcasing a new benchmark for how simulation, real-time intelligence and semantic data can be fused at scale to enable smarter, more responsive environments.

This is the first time Akila’s full platform has been deployed at campus scale, transforming UM6P into a living laboratory for future smart-city systems. A deep technical integration was needed to make the solution possible including NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for synthetic data generation, vision AI ingestion from real-world sensors with NVIDIA Metropolis, the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization (VSS) and NVIDIA Cosmos Reason to deploy video analytics AI agents for ongoing alerts and efficient operations.

The digital twin integrates diverse data sources — from building systems to utilities and mobility flows — within a structured, continuously updated Omniverse environment. It also introduces new layers of mobility and vehicle data, intelligently linked to the 3D model and natural language interfaces, giving campus operators unprecedented operational insight.

A distinctive capability of the platform is its use of a custom video language models (VLMs) trained with NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, enabling a contextually aware AI agent to deliver real-time video intelligence across the entire campus. Combined with Akila’s semantic graph, these models can analyze crowd movement, traffic flows and incident patterns, then feed the results back into simulations to support predictive and operational decision-making.

Stakeholders can also query the twin through LLM-powered interfaces, asking complex questions in natural language and receiving contextualized answers and automated reports. Whether it’s occupancy trends, mobility anomalies or energy deviations, campus managers can get precise, actionable intelligence on demand.

“What we’re building at UM6P is the AI infrastructure of the future — one that connects simulation, real-time intelligence and semantic data to create something far more powerful than the sum of its parts,” said Philippe Obry, Vice-President of Akila. “NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI and the incorporated technologies have accelerated our ability to integrate these layers at campus scale, turning the digital twin into a living, intelligent system.”

“With UM6P, we’re creating a uniquely data-rich and queryable digital environment,” said Pierre-Manuel Patry, Head of EMEA at Akila. “Any stakeholder can retrieve detailed, AI-generated insights about their area of focus, or generate automated reporting on demand. It’s a degree of control made possible by Akila’s unified AI infrastructure — and a perfect showcase of what a smart campus can be.”

By linking simulation, video intelligence, semantic structuring and natural language interfaces, Akila and UM6P are demonstrating how NVIDIA technologies can be operationalized to build next-generation AI infrastructure for the built environment — scalable from a single campus to entire smart cities.

Akila will be presenting this deployment live at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025 in Barcelona from November 4-6, 2025. Akila can be found at the Mindware booth, and encourages all visitors to join us for a preview of our work in campus-scale digital twin.

Barcelona, 4 November 2025 — Akila, together with K2K and ThinkDeep, will showcase their shared vision for how semantically rich digital twins, video-language models (VLM) and retrieval-augmented AI systems can form an integrated intelligence chain that powers the future of Physical AI in cities and the built environment.

In line with NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI – a physical AI framework that combines simulation, training with VLMs, and deploying video analytics AI agents – the three companies are demonstrating how complementary technologies — spanning contextual intelligence, perception, and interaction, can be combined to create a new generation of city-scale AI systems.

• Akila provides the semantically rich digital twin platform, built on OpenUSD and integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries as its core environment for GPU-intensive simulation and spatial intelligence. Akila serves as the central layer where upstream data is contextualized in a unified operational model, enabling advanced analysis and scenario simulation at building and city scale.

• K2K deploys video analytics AI agents that generate structured, semantic narratives from city-wide visual data built with the NVIDIA Blueprint for video search and summarization (VSS) and powered by NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, an advanced reasoning VLM.
• ThinkDeep enriches the ecosystem with visual data ingestion Agentic AI and Graph RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines using NVIDIA Metropolis – transforming unstructured operational documents and records into structured knowledge that can be accessed interactively through AI assistants.

Together, these capabilities create a context-to-perception-to-interaction chain: from understanding and modeling the physical world through Akila’s digital twin, to extracting real-time intelligence from VLM, to making this knowledge accessible to diverse stakeholders through retrieval-augmented AI systems.

“This collaboration reflects a shared ambition to push the boundaries of how AI understands, simulates, and acts upon the physical world,” said Philippe Obry, Vice President at Akila. “By aligning semantically rich digital twins with advanced VLM and RAG technologies — and by leveraging NVIDIA Blueprint for smart city AI Omniverse for high-fidelity simulation — we’re laying the groundwork for a new generation of Physical AI capabilities in cities and infrastructure.”

Akila, K2K and ThinkDeep will jointly exhibit at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, from 4–6 November, 2025.