The town of Vail, Colorado has agreed to implement a new smart-city platform from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that aims to enhance public-safety, sustainability and administrative functions. Vail will deploy HPE’s agentic AI infrastructure, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, to process tasks such as early wildfire detection, traffic-flow optimisation, housing-permit processing and library-based digital-concierge services.
The project will operate on the town’s locally managed data-centre powered by renewable energy, addressing concerns about the rising electricity-consumption of AI operations. Vail expects the platform to reduce staff hours spent on mundane tasks, bolster responsiveness during emergencies such as wildfires, and improve accessibility of the municipal website for persons with disabilities.
Vendors participating include HPE (infrastructure), NVIDIA (accelerated computing and software), SHI International (systems integrator), Blackshark.ai (geospatial analysis), Kamiwaza (agentic-AI decision-making), ProHawk AI (computer vision) and Vaidio (video-analytics AI agents).
No public figure for the total investment cost has been disclosed by the town or vendors. The deployment is described as scalable, enabling future expansions into rental-management and peak-season parking-assistance applications.
In population terms, Vail has around 4,300 permanent residents but routinely hosts up to 30,000 visitors daily in peak season.
