White Paper

Augmented City

We enhance cities’ ability to serve citizens, boost the local economy, and evolve in line with people’s needs.

From Smart City to Augmented City: Public-Private synergy for more technological and efficient public services

Moving beyond the concept of the Smart City means embracing a profound transformation: enabling cities to better serve citizens, revitalize the local economy, and place people at the center. This is what we call the Augmented City - an advanced urban model where cutting-edge technologies help improve public services and simplify daily life, demonstrating how digitalization can be a driver of progress and good governance.

Local Public Administration is called to play an active role - and it doesn’t have to do so alone. It can achieve the greatest impact through targeted investments and risk-sharing with private partners, using sustainable and long-term economic-financial models (Public-Private Partnerships).

As change accelerators, we turn individual initiatives into opportunities by acting on five key pillars of a unified technological ecosystem: Sustainability, Security, Mobility, Interactivity, and Welfare.

In doing so, we take on one of the greatest challenges of our time: not to build a “city of the future” from scratch, but to evolve cities that have existed for centuries - cities rich in history and tradition, yet capable of looking ahead and investing in innovation.

Artificial Intelligence for Local Public Administration

AI is a strategic lever to modernize Public Administration and simplify the relationship between citizens and institutions. At Engineering Group, we know this well. Through our proprietary Large Language Model, EngGPT - our Private GenAI - we support companies and institutions in their evolution by adopting AI.

Municipalities, for example, can use AI-based solutions to improve the accessibility of places, services, and content; provide both users and public employees with digital assistants that are personalized and capable of autonomous actions; and proactively manage tourist flows. In the mobility sector, AI enables the implementation of travel assistants and supports more optimized management of city resources, urban traffic, and transportation routes.

Thanks to intelligent data analysis, AI facilitates access to public services by personalizing the user experience and reducing time and complexity. In administrative areas, it can automate repetitive processes such as invoice management, PEC (certified email) organization, and document classification - freeing up staff to focus on higher-value tasks and improving operational efficiency.

Adopting AI is not just a step toward innovation - it is a concrete choice to make Public Administration more responsive, proactive, and capable of anticipating the real needs of the community.