CEO Spotlight: Spesland and the Rise of GenAI in Smart Cities

GenAI is being used in smart cities to improve efficiency and sustainability. Over the next several years GenAI is believed to impact cities through transportation, energy management, public safety as well as urban planning. Smart cities that are looking for ways to be innovative with GenAI are better able to predict future needs offering its citizens a cleaner, safer and more secure environment.

 

Spesland, is an GenAI software company transforming smart city infrastructure maintenance and management. The company has a passion for integrating advanced technology into urban environments and to empower cities with cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions to address the following:

•     Increase the productivity of existing resources and reducing operating costs.

•     Transforms data into actionable insights that guide strategic planning, resource allocation, and proactive service delivery.

•     Provide cities faster, more responsive service due to the operational improvements gained throughout their organizations.

 

Spesland’s GovChat™ generative AI conversational tool for efficient cities is being implemented for various use cases across the globe including Saudi Arabia where it is being implemented in buildings, tunnels and bridges to control the digital system through natural language as well as detect malfunctions and security issues. Also in the City of Natal in Brazil, GovChat is being implemented to improve the city’s efficiency and system performance.

 

Below let’s find out a bit more about the company as we talk to Leeland Zhang, CEO and

 

1: Tell us a bit about yourself and your company.

I’m Leeland Zhang, the CEO at Spesland. The smart city industry isn’t one that most people get to know readily. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to work in smart infrastructure all across the globe, serving clients in Brazil, Hong Kong, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Singapore, while also actively pushing myself academically in some of the world’s top research institutions. I am an applied math and computer scientist by background, so while the hardware devices I came to know in smart infrastructure were impressive to me, the software, especially artificial intelligence, appeared significantly lacking. With the advent of transformers and blossoming LLM technology, it became clear a new digital revolution is upon us and I felt it was a great opportunity to introduce this to the world of smart cities. Click here for Leelands’ full bio. (link to web page)

 

2. What inspired the company name?

Spesland has great meaning. ‘Spes’ was the goddess of hope in ancient Roman mythology, and so regardless of what technology Spesland creates, we aim to be a personification of hope to quite literally, the land.

 

3. What is your vision for Spesland?

I think every company has a slogan they like to use and ours happens to be “Driving urban transformation through AI to elevate citizen welfare, harnessing innovation and empowering city managers for more efficient, safer, and sustainable cities of the future.” Simply put, in any public infrastructure, institution, or service offered from the government to its citizens, Spesland will build products to streamline, to optimize, to enhance, and to overall make the government’s job easier so that the general welfare of the people is increased. And we hope this can reach every city in the world.

 

4. What ‘s next for Spesland?

We are a company that builds fast and knows how to get creative when resources are limited. GovChat, our flagship product, has only been in the works for about a year, and we already see success across multiple city infrastructure verticals, across multiple countries, and with multiple features that bring significant value to city managers. In the near future, not only do I plan to have GovChat compatible and knowledgeable in every major smart infrastructure vertical, but also to be able to setup our own servers compliant with each city or country’s strict security requirements to make our product much more accessible. This will remove the need for government themselves to locally deploy our product. Further ahead, we are looking to expand into other major components of smart city, such as healthcare and education.

 

5. How will Spesland's technology revolutionize the industry?

Spesland works with great partners, some at the top of the industry. Even so, many ‘best solutions’ in troubleshooting complex issues sometimes takes a team of engineers working full time for several days in emergency mode to get to the root of the problem. We build our product so that a team turns to one, and several days turn to several hours. The above is just an example. At the core, we are helping city managers easily work with massive amounts of IoT data with little technical expertise which were not possible before. In addition we extract further insights such as introducing high quality predictive maintenance and troubleshooting capabilities wrapped in one product. Our goal is to standardize the use of advanced artificial intelligence and large language models in smart city.

 

To learn more visit our newly launched website www.spesland.com. Also be sure to visit Spesland this November at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona (Nov. 5-7). Leeland is scheduled to present: Revolutionizing Smart Cities with LLMs: A Paradigm Shift on Nov. 6th in the US Pavilion.