A cognitive city must understand an individual’s needs, adapt city systems and infrastructure and provide personalized city services that are trusted and secure.
AI is central to building a secure, accurate, and private model of the individual while AR provides a human-centric, natural and seamless interface to these personalized cognitive services.
The combination of AI and AR will drive the creation of completely new mixed-reality experiences that don't exist today.
These capabilities should be fully embedded in the built environment from the planning and design phase.
The full integration of AI, AR, and built environment can be achieved through a city operating system, which integrates these capabilities with the physical infrastructure.
Unseen wonders could be loaded from our collective imaginations to populate cognitive cities like fireworks from our AR+AI boosters, allowing us to create epic mixed-reality experiences.
Wireless power points located throughout the city will remove the need to carry heavy battery packs.
The City Operating System coordinates and provides equitable access to all features, implementing a software architecture that eliminates the need for multiple software upgrades.
Cognitive cities could be one valuable endpoint from the many ways that AI, AR, IoT, and several other technologies are converging.
It will be a developing story as these technologies, and others that emerge, continue to evolve in parallel.