test citySmart City Testbed for Real-World Technology Pilots

Test new technologies and services that improve physical, mental and social wellbeing in urban environments, workplaces and everyday life.

Ülemiste City offers a unique environment for health innovation, combining 18,000 talents, employers, healthcare providers and an expanding health campus. Testing opportunities range from preventive health and diagnostics to digital health, workplace wellbeing and personalised services. The field is supported by Ülemiste City’s research-based 3×3 Health Model, health research and surveys, medical centres, healthcare professionals, universities and HealthTech partners.

Use the city as a platform for testing practical solutions that reduce environmental impact and enable more circular urban systems.

We are looking for technologies and service models addressing resource efficiency, circular materials, waste, water, biodiversity, emissions and sustainable consumption. Ülemiste City enables these solutions to be tested as part of real buildings, businesses, services and community behaviour rather than in isolation. This creates opportunities to measure environmental performance alongside adoption, economics and user experience — and to demonstrate whether sustainable solutions can work at urban scale.

Develop and validate solutions that make urban movement safer, more efficient, accessible and sustainable.

Ülemiste City provides a compact 30-hectare environment where streets, parking, pedestrian areas, cycling infrastructure and transport connections can become part of the testbed. Relevant areas include intelligent traffic management, mobility data, micromobility, EV infrastructure, logistics, accessibility and new mobility services. The campus also provides a strong setting for studying real mobility behaviour and connecting new solutions with Tallinn Airport, Rail Baltica and the wider Ülemiste transport hub.

Use real buildings as laboratories for the next generation of intelligent, efficient and human-centred built environments.

Ülemiste City offers a diverse portfolio of office, education, healthcare and mixed-use buildings where PropTech solutions can be tested in everyday operation. Focus areas include building automation, indoor climate, energy optimisation, predictive maintenance, space utilisation, digital twins, smart access and workplace technologies. Existing building systems, BIM models, sensor environments and operational data create opportunities for technology validation and applied research at both building and district scale.

Turn real urban data into better decisions, predictive services and more intelligent city operations.

We invite teams working with artificial intelligence, computer vision, digital twins, sensing, modelling and advanced analytics to use Ülemiste City as a real-world development environment. The campus generates operational and behavioural data across buildings, mobility, energy, infrastructure and services, creating opportunities to combine multiple data sources and validate data-driven solutions in practice. We are particularly interested in applications that move beyond monitoring towards prediction, optimisation, automation and evidence-based decision-making.

Test technologies that help buildings and urban districts produce, consume, store and manage energy more intelligently.

Ülemiste City provides an environment for developing solutions at the intersection of buildings, energy systems and mobility. Relevant areas include smart grids, energy storage, demand response, renewable energy integration, EV charging, energy management and predictive optimisation. We are also interested in solutions that strengthen resilience to climate, energy and infrastructure disruptions. The ambition is not only to reduce consumption, but to explore how future urban districts can become more flexible and active participants in energy systems.

Bring autonomous technologies out of controlled environments and test how they perform in a functioning urban environment.

Ülemiste City offers buildings, streets, public spaces and everyday human activity for testing service robots, autonomous delivery, inspection technologies, drones and other intelligent machines. Teams can explore navigation, perception, fleet management, human–robot interaction and integration with buildings and urban infrastructure. Previous autonomous mobility and delivery pilots demonstrate the campus’s ability to support technologies that require real operating conditions, users and interaction with other urban systems.

Some of the most transformative urban innovations do not fit neatly into one category.

Our Open Call welcomes technologies, research ideas and new service models that can make future cities more competitive, inclusive and attractive places to work, live and learn. Ülemiste City can provide access to real infrastructure, companies, users, data and development partners for solutions ranging from education and talent services to urban experience, community technologies, new business models and city governance. If your solution needs a real urban environment to demonstrate what comes next, we want to explore it.