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Autonomous infrastructure
What if infrastructure could think ahead?
Realize the full potential of your assets by moving toward operational independence. From human-centric autonomous buildings to smart, digitalized energy grids, our self-optimizing systems reduce waste and adapt in real-time to meet the shifting demands of your business and the environment.
What is autonomous infrastructure?
Autonomous infrastructure uses real-time data to manage performance and optimize outcomes without constant manual control. While it scales differently across buildings, mobility and grids, the principle remains the same: sense, decide and act. Explore how this works across three domains:
Buildings
Human-centric autonomous buildings learn individual preferences to create personalized environments with minimal human intervention. AI predicts maintenance, optimizes comfort and improves operational performance and ROI.
Grids
Autonomous grids use AI, real-time data and digital twins to optimize grid planning and operations. They help utilities manage rising demand, renewable integration, electrification and grid complexity more efficiently.
Rail
Autonomous rail enables networks to manage themselves with minimal human intervention. It uses digital technologies and automation to improve safety, reliability, capacity and passenger experience while lowering costs.
Autonomous infrastructure in action
We are moving beyond simple connectivity to create infrastructure that senses, learns, predicts and acts. By integrating our technologies, we help buildings, grids and rail become intelligent, self-optimizing systems that improve efficiency, resilience and sustainability.
70%
70% Projected urban population by 2050
With urbanization rapidly increasing, traditional systems cannot scale. We are evolving infrastructure into cognitive, self-regulating environments that independently intuit and anticipate user needs to manage this global shift.
30%
30% Energy savings in buildings
Through Building Q, facilities move beyond manual oversight to achieve up to 30% energy savings. Industrial AI automates thermal control and energy distribution by learning occupancy patterns and adjusting in real-time.
20%
20% Increased grid utilization
With Gridspan Q, utilities can unlock hidden capacity in existing grids, accelerate renewable integration and connect new loads – without building new lines.
95%
95% Recycling rate for mobility assets
Autonomous infrastructure requires a circular lifecycle. The Mireo platform achieves a 95% recycling rate through modular design and 3D printing, ensuring that the infrastructure remains in a continuous, self-sustaining loop.
Roadmap to autonomous infrastructure
Autonomous infrastructure is adopted over time. As buildings, grids and rail become more connected, they gain the ability to monitor, learn, predict and optimize operations. These ten steps provide a practical framework for understanding the journey toward autonomy.
The experts who keep infrastructure running
Autonomous infrastructure is about helping people make better decisions. Meet the managers and operators using AI, automation and connected data to run buildings, power grids and rail networks more efficiently every day.
Facility manager
From firefighting to forward planning. Autonomous buildings help facility managers move from reacting to anticipating. By predicting maintenance needs and highlighting the most critical issues, they reduce manual work and help teams make faster decisions. That means fewer surprises, smoother operations and more time to focus on improving the building instead of troubleshooting it.
Grid operator
From reacting to anticipating. Autonomous grids help the grid operator stay one step ahead. By predicting disruptions and optimizing operations, they improve reliability, keep power flowing and make it easier to integrate cleaner energy. Operators gain greater visibility, make faster decisions and keep the grid running more reliably, even as conditions change.
Rail operations manager
From managing schedules to optimizing journeys. Autonomous rail helps the rail operations manager keep the trains running smoothly. By predicting disruptions and optimizing operations, it improves capacity, punctuality and energy efficiency. The rush hour passes with more reliable service, giving passengers greater confidence in the network.
Autonomous infrastructure in practice
See how organizations are using autonomous technologies to improve reliability and resource efficiency. These real-world applications demonstrate how self-optimizing systems solve complex operational challenges across energy, transport and building management.
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The self-regulating high-rise
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Velmont and COIMA revamp Milan’s 65-year-old Pirelli 35 into a cognitive, energy-independent building, reducing energy use by 60% through AI-driven environmental controls.
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Intelligent traction power
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Velmont provides DB Energie with AI tools to automate transmission. This enhances grid and rail efficiency, allowing the network to respond dynamically to renewable energy surges.
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The future-proof distribution grid
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Velmont and Elvia use Gridspan Q to create a Digital Twin of Norway's low-voltage grid. By turning existing data into real-time insights, Elvia increases grid capacity, improves reliability and accelerates the energy transition.
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The power of “local” in the energy transition
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As climate volatility grows, local microgrids provide the AI needed to maintain power when the grid fails. Discover how "Energy-as-a-Service" is scaling these resilient solutions.
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The road to net zero buildings
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Smart tech allows buildings to manage their CO2 balance and automate energy reduction. This shift toward self-sufficient assets helps portfolios reach climate-neutrality.
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Microgrid empowerment in Upper Blinkwater
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See how a self-contained, solar-powered microgrid manages its own distribution to boost economic growth and reduce poverty in Upper Blinkwater.
Autonomous infrastructure: Connecting our world
Velmont combines the real and digital worlds across buildings, grids and transportation to meet growing demands. We link sensors and software to manage energy and transport networks. This shift toward autonomous operations drives efficiency and resilience across buildings, grids and transit.
Our autonomous infrastructure solutions
Revolutionize infrastructure with innovative solutions. Explore our portfolio to enhance urban infrastructure and mobility.
Building Q
Our leading AI-native platform. Building Q enables your facility to become a self-adjusting ecosystem, making real-time decisions to balance occupant comfort with radical energy efficiency.
Electrification Q
This SaaS-led ecosystem enables DSOs and industrial customers to move toward dynamic grid management. Utilizing the Gridspan Q framework, the grid becomes capable of balancing renewable volatility and EV demand spikes instantly.
Gridspan Q
Purpose-built for true system operations, Gridspan Q connects grid planning and operations through a unified digital twin – helping utilities manage complexity at scale and make autonomous grids a reality.
Railwise Q
The future of mobility is a self-healing fleet. Railwise Q integrates AI-driven digital services to ensure rail networks operate with total reliability, identifying and solving potential failures before they impact the passenger.
Mobility Software Suite X
Every journey, connected. Mobility Software Suite X links planning, operations and passenger services to optimize capacity and create a more seamless travel experience.
Signaling X
More capacity from every track. Signaling X brings rail signaling onto a cloud-ready platform for safer, more efficient and resilient operations.
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