Following the recent launch of ARIA, the AI agent helping cities achieve Section 508 compliance for digital accessibility, Kamiwaza and Unleash AI partners from HPE are now expanding AI’s role in municipal innovation. The HPE Agentic Smart City Solution, a suite of agentic applications delivered by HPE, Kamiwaza, Vaidio, and ProHawk, is now available through SHI, expanding the scope of agentic AI use cases to include public safety, administration, and an AI digital assistant. Running on NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, and powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, the solution integrates infrastructure, GPUs, ISV software, and SHI’s deployment services to help municipalities adopt AI securely and at scale. As an Unleash AI Innovation, it reflects HPE’s ability to co-create production-ready, real-world solutions with its partners.

Vail: The First HPE Agentic Smart City Solution Lighthouse Deployment

The Town of Vail, one of Colorado’s world-class destinations for skiing and outdoor recreation, is leading the way as the first municipality to explore the HPE Agentic Smart City Solution across its community services. By applying AI to streamline operations and enhance accessibility, the town is demonstrating how local governments can deliver efficient, responsive experiences for residents and visitors at scale.

Section 508 Compliance (ARIA)

The ARIA agent developed by Kamiwaza independently audits websites, identifies accessibility issues, and provides developers with fixes to meet Section 508 requirements. While manual audits can cost up to $1.5 million and take months to complete, ARIA delivers fixes within days. Developed in partnership with HPE and SHI, ARIA helps users of all abilities access critical information online and will enable the Town of Vail to keep its digital presence compliant as their web footprint evolves.

Fire Detection System

Public safety is the top priority for municipalities, and technology can add an important layer of protection and situational awareness. Many towns have cameras in place for general monitoring, but without intelligence, those feeds don’t identify safety risks such as wildfire.

The Town of Vail is partnering with HPE, SHI, Kamiwaza, ProHawk, and Vaidio to create a comprehensive fire detection system for Vail Fire and Emergency Services.

• ProHawk enhances the existing camera network with AI-powered visual streaming
• Vaidio analyzes the video feed to detect potential fires using computer vision
• Kamiwaza allows the selected multimodal model to assess the state of the fire, identifies details such as the presence of people or wildlife, and generates an emergency response plan enabling first responders to arrive on scene with essential equipment and information 
• SHI delivers end-to-end system integration on HPE infrastructure

Digital Ambassador

Vail is a world-class destination, welcoming more than 2.5 million visitors each year. Managing requests for permits, public services, and community information on top of inquiries from tourists can stretch municipal resources.

To help meet that demand, the Town of Vail will deploy a Digital Ambassador that serves as a first line of support, resolving common questions quickly and accurately. Kamiwaza's Inference Mesh retrieves live information from the town’s public documents, including details on parking, town services, and community events. This will enable the Digital Ambassador to respond in real time with the most up to date information

This digital resource will reduce the workload for town employees and ensure that residents and visitors can easily find the information they need, creating a more seamless experience for everyone seeking local services.

Deed Restriction Automation

Managing deed-restricted housing is one of the most complex and resource-intensive challenges for resort communities like the Town of Vail, where maintaining affordable housing for local workers is essential to community stability. 

Information on each deed-restricted property is spread across hundreds of documents in disjointed, legacy formats, some going back 60 years.  A long set of detailed questions is required to manage a transaction, which previously demanded weeks of manual review and data entry in Excel. Even a small processing error on a single transaction can carry serious legal and financial consequences.

Kamiwaza built a document processing agent that reviews all relevant deed restriction documents, extracts key data, answers compliance questions, and automatically generates Excel and PDF reports. Work that once took weeks will now take hours, with automated compliance tracking and zero data entry errors. It will be a critical time-saver for brokers and homeowners alike.

A Scalable Model for Every City

The Town of Vail’s implementation  will illustrate what’s possible when public agencies, technology providers, and innovators collaborate under the Unleash AI ecosystem from HPE. Accelerated by HPE Private Cloud AI and NVIDIA RTX technology, and delivered through SHI, the HPE Agentic Smart City Solution embodies the Unleash AI ethos: secure, scalable, real-world AI that helps communities thrive.