How Cities Leverage AI-Driven Visual Blight Detection to Transform Communities
City Detect is transforming the way local governments and public sector organizations tackle urban challenges by bringing state-of-the-art AI and computer vision to the forefront of city management. Our platform empowers code enforcement and public works teams to shift from reactive to proactive, ensuring that resources are strategically allocated, communities are equitably served, and housing and neighborhood conditions are consistently and accurately monitored.
City Detect’s solution uses a data-driven approach to pinpoint housing and infrastructure concerns that affect quality of life, such as blight, property decay, and code violations. With our scalable approach, we equip fleet vehicles with cameras that capture high-resolution images of city properties, minimizing environmental impact while maximizing coverage and data accuracy. Once captured, these images are analyzed by our advanced AI, which identifies, categorizes, and maps issues impacting each neighborhood.
Our process breaks down into four pillars:
- Capture – Utilizing existing fleet vehicles, we collect visual data from properties citywide, ensuring efficient data acquisition with a minimal carbon footprint.
- Analyze – Our AI analyzes the images to identify and map a wide range of property and infrastructure concerns, from housing deterioration to code violations, providing actionable intelligence on issues affecting public health and safety.
- Report – Detailed reports provide local leaders with a clear, data-driven view of community conditions, empowering strategic decisions that are both timely and well-informed.
- Action – Leveraging integrations with your city’s top case management software services, cities can achieve efficiencies in direct communication, education & enforcement campaigns, and ticketing systems.
City Detect’s technology enables the public sector to operate with greater efficiency, accuracy, and equity. By delivering critical data highlighting trends and needs across neighborhoods, we help leaders deploy resources where they’ll have the greatest impact, ensuring fair and effective service across all communities. In partnership with organizations like Habitat for Humanity, City Detect has already played a pivotal role in revitalizing neighborhoods, fostering public trust, and promoting sustainable urban development.
Our commitment to technology for social good ensures that City Detect's solutions are as beneficial to individual communities as they are to the broader mission of civic development. In partnering with Carahsoft, we aim to scale this mission nationwide, helping more cities achieve sustainable, proactive, and impactful urban management.