1st Place Urban Growth - NVIDIA DGX AITX Hackathon · Dec 2025

Urban infrastructure intelligence

GPU-accelerated analysis of 2.34M Austin construction permits, processed nightly. Discover energy trends, grid gaps, and infrastructure patterns.

SolarBattery StorageEV ChargersGeneratorsGrid InfrastructureRenovations
The Problem

Infrastructure signals are hiding in plain sight.

The Permitting Bottleneck

Manual analysis of Austin's construction data is slow, fragmented, and prone to human error.

Hidden Trends

Critical infrastructure trends are buried under a mountain of bureaucratic paperwork and legacy PDF formats.

The 2.3M Scale Challenge

Processing 2.34 million permits manually is an impossible task for urban planners and developers.

Platform

From raw data to real-time intelligence

Ingest
Process
Analyze
Serve

Open Pipeline

Repeatable for any city's open data. Customizable pipeline code you can fork and adapt.

Any open dataset
Customizable pipeline
MIT licensed
View on GitHub

Born on DGX Spark

Prototyped on DGX Spark, deployed to Jetson AGX Orin for edge AI.

NVIDIA Nemotron via NIM

Nemotron Nano 8B powers all AI insights via NVIDIA NIM.

Open Source

MIT licensed. Fork it for your city, customize freely.

Story-driven

Raw data → insights like the 9:1 solar-to-battery ratio.

Who is this for

Built for decision makers

Real-time infrastructure intelligence for the people who plan, power, and study cities.

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City Planners

Identify infrastructure gaps, track permit trends, and make data-driven zoning decisions across every district.

Energy Companies

Find underserved areas for solar, battery, and EV infrastructure investments. Spot the grid gaps before they become crises.

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Researchers

Analyze urban growth patterns, climate resilience, and infrastructure equity with 26 years of permit data.

Infrastructure Analysis

Austin is Changing Fast

Solar installations, EV chargers, generators, and grid infrastructure patterns revealed through permit data analysis.

9:1

Solar to battery ratio

+340%

Generator surge post-2021

26,075

Solar installations

View Reports

Open Source

Extensible data pipeline. Adapt it for any city, any dataset. MIT Licensed.