Kentyou

Problems Kentyou targeting

• Cities struggle to translate smart-city ambitions into practice due to limited internal technical capacity and fragmented tooling.
• Urban data is plentiful but underexploited, because it is scattered across heterogeneous sources and not converted into meaningful information.
• Departmental silos prevent cross-domain coordination, despite strong interdependencies between mobility, energy, environment, buildings, and public services.
• There is a shortage of holistic, interoperable tool suites that can integrate and correlate data to support real decision-making, monitoring, and impact assessment.
• Vendor lock-in solutions reduce adoption and sustainability, pushing cities to seek open, modular, future-proof approaches.

Solution: Kentyou Eye

Kentyou Eye is a transversal smart city platform designed to support monitoring, oversight, and data‑driven decision‑making across urban systems. It enables cities to collect, aggregate, and analyze heterogeneous data sources—such as IoT sensors, geographic data, legacy systems, and real‑time feeds—into a unified urban data backbone. Through customizable indicators, advanced analytics, forecasting, and impact assessment, Kentyou Eye helps city stakeholders understand current conditions, anticipate future trends, and make informed strategic decisions.

Built with a holistic and cross‑sector vision, Kentyou Eye breaks down traditional silos between urban domains such as mobility, energy, environment, buildings, and public services. Its modular, open, and interoperable architecture allows flexible deployment (cloud, edge, or private cloud), rapid integration of new data sources, and long‑term scalability without vendor lock‑in. The platform follows an open‑innovation approach, encouraging collaboration with local innovators, public stakeholders, and citizens through co‑creation and human‑centered design.

On top of this transversal foundation, Kentyou has developed a suite of domain‑specific solutions called “Insights”, each tailored to a specific urban vertical (e.g. Mobility Insights, Building Insights, Climate Insights). These solutions transform the generic capabilities of Kentyou Eye into ready‑to‑use, mission‑oriented tools that embed domain expertise, dedicated analytics, and contextualized indicators. This approach allows cities to start with concrete use cases, deliver immediate operational value, and progressively extend their smart city capabilities while preserving a coherent, city‑wide vision.

Real‑world deployments illustrate this approach:

• Mobility Insights deployed in Istanbul (TR) supports smart intersection monitoring in cities such as Istanbul, enabling real‑time traffic visualization, incident detection, and long‑term mobility planning.
• Building Insights is used in Ollioules (France) to monitor and optimize energy consumption across municipal buildings, supporting cost control and carbon‑reduction goals.
• Climate Insights is deployed in Grenoble (France) to analyze and mitigate urban heat islands through data aggregation, digital twins, and simulation of urban development scenarios.

Together, Kentyou Eye and the Insights solutions form a coherent smart city product suite: a shared, open urban data platform combined with specialized decision‑support tools that help cities act effectively, domain by domain, while maintaining a holistic, resilient, and future‑proof vision of urban management.