Smart cities are using AI agents to audit digital content for Section 508 compliance, detect fires and fire risks, automate documentation, and provide chatbot assistance to citizens and visitors. With the amount of data cities must manage growing all the time, there’s high potential for many other agentic AI use cases to bring value to local governments.
Your legacy systems are blocking automation. Connect and automate your core — no migration required
Your most critical business processes are trapped in on-prem mainframes and legacy systems. Your modern cloud automation tools can’t connect. You’re stuck.
Kamiwaza’s AI agents act as a secure bridge. We deploy inside your perimeter to connect your legacy data to your modern workflows. This is how you automate your entire enterprise without the multi-million dollar “rip and replace” risk.
You’ve hit the automation wall
You can’t automate your most important processes. Your team is forced to manually swivel-chair, copying data from old green screens to new web apps. This is because:
- Your tools can’t connect: Your new cloud-based workflow platforms have no way to safely talk to your on-prem AS/400, mainframe, or legacy databases.
- “Rip and replace” is a fantasy: Every consultant is pitching a 5-year, $50 million migration project. You know these projects are too risky, too slow, and usually fail.
- Brittle connectors always break: Custom-coded integrations are a maintenance nightmare. They’re fragile, not secure, and break the moment anything changes, leaving you with a failed process.
- Your data is trapped and “dirty”: Your legacy data is in old formats. It’s often corrupted or inconsistent. You can’t trust it to feed an automated process, and the people who understood it are retiring.
Enhance, connect, and automate your core
Kamiwaza’s AI agents securely plug into your existing environment. We give your legacy systems modern capabilities without changing their core code.
Securely connect to legacy data
Our AI agents deploy to your legacy systems. They act as a secure data fabric, processing data in-place. Your modern cloud apps can finally query your on-prem data without a single file ever moving.
Enhance and validate in place
Our agents don’t just read data: they fix it. They perform automated quality assurance, validate information against other systems, and enhance corrupted or outdated files. This ensures your automation workflows are fed clean, reliable data.
Unlock end-to-end automation
This is the final step. Your modern workflow tool (in the cloud) can now ask the Kamiwaza agent (on-prem) to “get customer status.” The agent securely queries the mainframe, gets the answer, and passes it back. You have finally automated a process that spans your modern and legacy infrastructure.
How leaders automate their legacy core
- Government agencies: Agencies are using Kamiwaza to automate workflows that rely on decades-old databases. They enhance and validate legacy files, making them fully compliant and usable for modern automation without migration.
- Financial services: A major bank can now automate loan processing. The cloud-based workflow pings a Kamiwaza agent. The agent securely pulls policy data from an on-prem mainframe, validates coverage, and returns an “approved” signal in real-time.
The key to risk-free automation
- Works with your existing systems: Our agents are built to interface with legacy infrastructure. You don’t need to change a thing.
- No “rip and replace” risk: This is not a massive migration project. This is an “enhance and extend” strategy. It saves you millions and eliminates years of risk.
- Maintain 100% compliance: By processing all data in-place, we never break your compliance or security posture. Your data stays exactly where it belongs.
- Intelligent data enhancement: We don’t just pass along bad data. Our agents perform AI-powered quality assurance to ensure your new automations are reliable.
Unlock your legacy systems
Stop letting old systems block modern automation. See how our AI agents can safely connect and enhance your legacy data.
The benefits of agentic AI for smart cities
Launch use cases quickly
With a production-ready solution, smart cities can quickly pilot use cases, make adjustments, and deploy agents at scale.
Scale across departments
Kamiwaza’s Distributed Data Engine means AI agents can process information across departments and systems without having to move data or compromise security.
Protect sensitive data
Maintain control of sensitive data within a secure, future-ready framework.
Achieve Section 508 compliance
The ARIA AI agent from Kamiwaza acts as Section 508 compliance testing and remediation software, helping cities meet digital accessibility requirements.
Agentic AI use cases for smart cities
The HPE Agentic Smart City Solution empowers a new class of AI use cases that help municipalities save time, reduce operational costs, and provide better services to citizens and visitors.
Section 508 compliance for digital accessibility
ARIA by Kamiwaza scans and automatically fixes digital content to ensure it meets accessibility standards, including Section 508 and ADA requirements for government agencies. This autonomous agent can independently audit websites, identify accessibility issues, and provide developers with fixes. Developed in partnership with HPE and SHI, ARIA helps local governments keep their digital presence compliant as their web footprints evolve.
Fire prevention and early detection
A comprehensive fire detection system for local fire departments includes AI-powered visual streaming from ProHawk and computer vision from Vaidio. Kamiwaza allows the model to assess the state of the fire, identifies the presence of people or wildlife, and generates an emergency response plan to help first responders arrive with the right equipment and information. SHI delivers system integration on HPE servers.
Deed restriction automation
Kamiwaza built a document processing agent that can review hundreds of distributed documents on deed-restricted properties. The agent extracts key data, answers compliance questions, and generates reports, reducing a weeks-long process to just hours. By automating this complex and resource-intensive process, municipalities can save time for brokers and homeowners while reducing data entry errors.
Digital AI ambassador
A digital AI ambassador can act as the first line of support for visitors, resolving common questions quickly. Kamiwaza's Inference Mesh retrieves live information from public documents, including details about parking, services, and events. The concierge can respond in real time with accurate, up-to-date information, reducing the burden on city employees.
FAQs about AI-powered smart cities
What are some agentic AI use cases for smart cities?
What agentic AI solutions are available for smart cities?
Standalone hardware and software for agentic AI can analyze data from connected devices, sensors, and systems to automate processes. Integrated solutions like the HPE Agentic Smart City Solution combines hardware, software, and services into a single platform.
How can cities use AI on data from different sources?
Many cities have an overwhelming amount of data distributed across incompatible legacy systems and siloed departmental records. IT teams may be concerned that this means their data isn’t ready to be processed by AI. However, AI orchestration from Kamiwaza can access and process data without moving it, making it possible for cities to use AI agents on virtually all of their data.
How do I make my website Section 508 compliant?
To make their websites compliant with the Section 508 federal standard for digital accessibility, cities must ensure all content meets certain requirements. For example, images must have descriptive text, videos must have captions and transcripts, content must be structured with headings, interactive elements must be navigable using the keyboard, and content must have sufficient color contrast.
What are the best solutions for Section 508 compliance testing software?
There are a variety of automated tools that offer Section 508 compliance services, including document testing software and screen readers. Kamiwaza's ARIA (Accessibility Remediation Intelligence Agent) is an AI-powered agent designed to audit and fix digital content so that it meets Section 508 and ADA requirements. This autonomous agent audits websites, flags accessibility issues, guides developers with clear fixes, and adapts as requirements change. Because it can work at scale, ARIA is ideal for municipalities, who often have to work across many different departments and systems.