Abu Dhabi Digital Twin (LivAI)

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-08

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Abu Dhabi's Department of Municipalities and Transport has modelled the emirate in 3D since October 2022 — LiDAR scans, aerial photography, building interiors, permits, leases and asset-management data — for planners and emergency responders. Rebranded LivAI in 2025, it adds AI-driven liveability scoring by district. Every capability claim traces to DMT's own press releases; no independent evaluation was found.

Live 📅 since 2022 🤖 Uses AI

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run byDepartment of Municipalities and Transport – Abu Dhabi (DMT)

Scale🗺️ Regional

FundingAbu Dhabi Government (Department of Municipalities and Transport)

🎓 Lesson

A platform re-unveiled at the same trade show under a new name every year — Digital Twin in 2022, a liveability layer in 2024, LivAI in 2025 — is not proof of failure: the same official, Dr Omar Al Shaiba, has led it continuously since launch, unlike the one-off vendor pitches this atlas has rejected elsewhere. But every fact here, including the claim that the whole emirate is modelled, comes from DMT's own newsroom. No outlet has published how much of the emirate is actually scanned, how many planning or emergency-response decisions have used it, or any figure at all.

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Sources

↗ Abu Dhabi Media Office / DMT — Digital Twin launch, 12 Oct 2022 (authority)Official launch release quoting Dr. Omar Al Shaiba, then Acting Executive Director of IT Affairs at DMT; describes LiDAR/aerial/game-engine 3D modelling and integration with real estate, permits and asset-management data.

↗ Khaleej Times — 'Abu Dhabi creates digital twin of communities…', 2022 (press)Independent confirmation of scope: building interiors, lease/permit/asset data, and the emergency-response use case.

↗ Global Construction Review — 'Abu Dhabi launches digital twin of entire emirate' (trade press)Independent trade-press corroboration of launch date, technology and named official.

↗ Abu Dhabi Media Office / DMT — LivAI at GITEX Global 2025 (authority)Confirms LivAI as the 2025 enhanced version of the platform first shown at GITEX 2024, quotes Dr. Omar Al Shaiba as Executive Director; describes district-level liveability scoring, predictive analytics, Smart Inspection Robot. No impact figures given.

↗ Al Etihad — 'Abu Dhabi DMT completes milestone projects worth Dh4 billion in 2024' (press)Independent press confirming the 2024 liveability/digital-twin iteration was active and expanding; real-estate transaction figures in this article belong to a separate DMT programme (ADREC), not attributed to the twin itself.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Abu Dhabi Digital Twin (LivAI)” — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/abu-dhabi-digital-twin/ (last verified 2026-08-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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