CITYA! AR urban visualisation

CITYA!

Transform how citizens experience urban planning—engage, visualize, and build your city's future together

Enable participatory budgeting and citizen engagement campaigns, giving residents a voice in city projects and decision-making

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Deliver accurate and accessible city information to tourists and citizens through a smart, AI-powered assistant integrated into the city’s website, making essential information available anytime, anywhere.

CITYA! AI-powered smart city platform

CITYA! is designed to empower cities and municipalities to foster transparency, inclusivity, and data-driven decision-making. With CITYA!, urban leaders can seamlessly manage public information, enhance tourism experiences, promote city development and investments, and engage citizens in meaningful ways.

Revolutionize Citizen Engagement with AR Urban Visualization

CITYA! AR Urban Visualization transforms urban planning by bringing development projects to life through augmented reality. Our innovative platform enables municipalities to showcase future city improvements directly on location, allowing citizens to visualize proposed changes in their actual environment, provide meaningful feedback, and actively participate in shaping their community's future—all through a simple scan of a QR code.

Urban planners and municipal officials often face obstacles when attempting to involve citizens in development projects. These challenges impact public trust, project timelines, and ultimately the success of urban improvements. Addressing these fundamental issues is essential for creating truly responsive and community-driven city planning.

Common Urban Planning Challenges for Municipalities

Citizen Engagement Issues
- Limited participation in traditional public consultations
- Difficulty reaching diverse demographic groups
- Low interest in complex planning documents
- Minimal community ownership in development projects
Visualization Barriers
- Inability to effectively demonstrate how projects will look in real environments
- Technical blueprints are inaccessible to average citizens
- Difficulty conveying the scale and spatial impact of proposed changes
Communication Obstacles
- Technical terms creating barriers between planners and citizens
- Limited multilingual information availability
- Confusion about the timeline and stages of development projects
Feedback Collection Problems
- Inefficient methods for gathering and organizing public comments
- Difficulty in following up with citizens on their suggestions
- Lack of continuous engagement throughout project phases

3.5Х

Higher engagement from residents under age 35
>60%

Increase in public participation compared to traditional consultation methods
>200%

Increase in actionable feedback submissions

How CITYA! Solves These Challenges

Immersive visualization technology
- Transform abstract urban plans into interactive 3D models
- Overlay future developments directly onto the existing environment at actual scale
- Provide before-and-after comparisons to demonstrate the impact of changes
- Multilingual AI guide answers citizen questions about developments in 30+ languages
Comprehensive feedback collection
- In-app surveys and comment features tied to specific aspects of each project
- Sentiment analysis to categorize and prioritize citizen input
- Geographic tracking of feedback to identify neighborhood-specific concerns
Inclusive accessibility
- Available 24/7 through simple QR code scanning
- No specialized equipment required—works on standard smartphones
- Adaptive interface for users with different abilities and technical comfort levels

CITYA! One step from blueprint to reality.

How It Works

Our three-step process

Easy to get started

Mark future development locations on the interactive map
Upload project details, images, 3D models
Generate QR codes for each location with one click
Place QR markers at the actual development sites
Set engagement goals and feedback parameters for each project

Seamless citizen experience

Scan any project QR code with a standard smartphone camera
View 3D models of future developments overlaid on the current environment in mode "Before-After"
Interact with the AI guide for personalized information about the project
Explore detailed galleries of renderings, plans, and timelines
Submit questions, feedback, and preferences directly through the web app

Feedback collection, analysis and reporting

Comments and suggestions are automatically categorized by topic
Demographic data provides context for understanding community needs
Sentiment analysis reveals prevailing attitudes toward each project
All feedback is compiled into actionable insights for decision-makers

Turn any street corner
into a window to the future

Key Benefits

For cities
- Increase participation rates compared to traditional methods
- Reduce public consultation costs by up to 60%
- Decrease time spent explaining complex plans to citizens
- Test multiple design options with citizens in real environments
- Minimize project delays caused by public misunderstanding
- Develop greater trust in municipal decision-making through transparency
- Create a modern, tech-forward image that attracts investment
For citizens
- Experience future developments in real-world contexts before construction begins
- Access detailed project information 24/7 through simple smartphone scanning
- Interact with an AI guide
- Easily understand complex urban planning concepts through visual representation
- Navigate between development sites to understand city-wide improvements
- Share opinions with planners
- Feel genuinely included in the planning process

Bring CITYA! to Your Municipality Today

CITYA! is ready to help your municipality foster transparency, trust, and active citizen participation in budget decisions.

Get Started

3I solutions for PS

Funding

AR-GO lab Oy is a partner of Interreg Baltic Sea project "3I solutions for PS" developing and delivering extended reality (XR) solutions for easier access to the public information (information access points) and for visualisation of small-scale urban environment investments.

Both solutions will be implemented as scalable digital platforms for use of multiple cities, municipalities and other public actors in Baltic Sea Region.

Read more via the link, follow the project progress and contact us, if you need more information about XR solutions for the public sector.

Our Contacts

Feel free to write and call us. We really love to communicate with our clients.

+358 46 6878090
contact@citya.link

Kukkolinnankatu 5, 55120, IMATRA, FINLAND
Elannontie 3, 01510 Vantaa, FINLAND

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