WAVUS, a geospatial artificial intelligence platform company, is stepping up its push into global markets after unveiling a wide range of next-generation smart city platform technologies combining generative AI, digital twins, and disaster prediction models.

WAVUS announced on September 15 that it showcased its core solutions integrating geospatial information and AI at the 2026 World Smart City Expo (WSCE 2026), held at BEXCO in Busan from September 9 to 11.

Among the key technologies presented at the exhibition was GeOnAI, an interactive geospatial AI agent that uses natural-language queries to generate customized maps and conduct preliminary assessments of permit and approval requirements. The company also highlighted Urban Safety AI, a disaster-focused multimodal foundation model being jointly developed with KAIST and DataMaker, as well as GeOn AirX, an integrated Urban Air Mobility (UAM) traffic management platform designed to manage flight-route planning, takeoffs, and landings within a three-dimensional digital-twin environment.

Building on business consultations held with international buyers and industry representatives during the event, WAVUS plans to expand beyond its traditional focus on public-sector geographic information system (GIS) projects in Korea and move into the global smart city and geospatial AI platform markets.

Experts in smart city architecture and intelligent geospatial information, or GeoAI, described WAVUS’s integration of GeOnAI—a natural-language conversational GIS—with a multimodal foundation model for disaster prediction as a shift in spatial computing that transforms geospatial data from a domain largely reserved for specialized engineers into a practical decision-making tool for government officials and the general public.

By enabling users to conduct permit and approval assessments through natural-language queries based on building regulations and cadastral data, while integrating weather, IoT, and video sensor data to visualize flood and fire risks in real time, the platform could streamline urban administrative processes and give authorities more time to respond to disasters.

Mobility and air traffic management (ATM) analysts also view GeOn AirX as a turning point in expanding GIS applications beyond conventional two-dimensional cadastral information toward platforms capable of managing three-dimensional urban airspace in real time.

The ability to accurately replicate complex urban environments—including high-rise buildings and sudden wind gusts—through digital twins and connect them in real time with vertiports for takeoff and landing is regarded as a key enabling technology for the commercialization of urban air mobility.

Through these technologies, WAVUS is expected to establish a foundation for expanding its business beyond public-sector system integration projects in Korea and into areas such as global smart city Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions and urban management and control platforms.

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