Project cooperationUpdated on 2 March 2026
Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Smart Cities & Local Digital Twins
CEO at 8peaks
Antwerp, Belgium
About
The KennisAI Platform™ by 8peaks is a Sovereign, Zero-Trust AI Control Plane designed for smart sustainable cities, critical infrastructure, and green-tech enterprises.
As municipalities and industries transition toward sustainable operations, they increasingly rely on Generative AI and Local Digital Twins (LDTs) to optimize energy grids, monitor environmental impacts, and automate ESG reporting. However, strict data privacy laws (GDPR, EU AI Act, NIS2) prevent them from sending sensitive municipal or industrial data to public cloud AI APIs (like OpenAI or AWS).
KennisAI solves this data sovereignty bottleneck. We provide an air-gapped, on-premise AI infrastructure that allows organizations to securely build, deploy, and govern multi-agent AI pipelines. By acting as a secure bridge between Local Language Models (LLMs) and local IoT/sensor networks, KennisAI enables cities and industries to harness the full analytical power of AI for sustainability—without ever compromising data privacy or European digital sovereignty.
Services Offered
At 8peaks, we provide highly secure, scalable Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities alongside strategic partnership opportunities:
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Sovereign AI Infrastructure (PaaS): Licensing of our Zero-Trust MCP Gateway and Low-Code Flow Builder. This allows end-users to run advanced multi-agent workflows entirely on-premise or in private municipal clouds.
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Local Digital Twin (LDT) AI Integration: Enabling smart cities to securely connect real-time IoT sensor data (traffic, energy, water) with predictive AI agents to optimize urban sustainability without leaking citizen data.
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Sovereign Space-Intelligence: Secure integration of downstream Earth Observation data ) with private ground data. Ideal for precision agriculture, forestry, flood risk modelling, and port infrastructure monitoring.
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Sovereign ESG & Sustainability Modeling: Deploying localized AI agents to securely ingest real-time sensor and ERP data, automating complex Scope 1-3 emissions reporting and HVAC optimization while keeping sensitive corporate ESG data strictly on-premise.
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Consortium & Innovation Partnerships: We are actively seeking to partner with progressive municipalities, green-energy operators, and research institutes for EU-funded pilot deployments .
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