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Florence Trials 80 NB-IoT Loading-Bay Sensors And A Cargo-Bike Micro-Hub Under EU UNCHAIN Project Brno Adds Predictive Digital Twin To Traffic Information Centre With Yunex Traffic And Aimsun
Belo Horizonte Connects 500 Traffic Controllers To Camera Detection And Remote Control
Via Appia Tests Valerann Incident Detection On 32km Of São Paulo’s Rodovias Das Colinas
Sensus International To Buy EYKON Water Meter Business Amper’s AIoTWaves Wins €4.8 Million Geconta Order For 150,000 Water Metering Devices
EPA Awards Georgia $499 Million To Rebuild Water Systems Damaged By Hurricane Helene
Wint Closes $36 Million Series D To Expand AI Water Monitoring In Commercial Buildings
Blanca Connects Two Air Quality And Noise Stations To Murcia’s SmartRegion Platform Waikato Regional Council Funds $1.65 Million Upgrade Of 40 Flood Telemetry Sites
New York DEC And USGS Launch FloodSafe NY Statewide Streamgage Network For Flood Warnings
Vancouver’s SenseNet Acquires N5 Sensors’ Wildfire Detection Business
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USALos Angeles to Extend AI Bus Lane Enforcement to 50 DASH Buses After Pilot ItalyIblea Acque Wins €17 Million In Italian State Funding To Cut Ragusa Water Losses SpainYaiza Opens €400,000 Tender For Playa Blanca Smart Street Lighting SpainSanta Cruz De Bezana To Replace 1,237 Streetlights In €1 Million LED OverhaulKurrant Tender Tracker flags smart city and utility tenders across 20+ European countries every day, each with an AI summary in English.
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City of Melbourne begins installing 500 solar-powered Superfy smart bins under a five-year deal, swapping fixed rounds for sensor-led pickups.
VideosurveillanceHanoi Police Pilot Smart Police Platform As Video Analytics Camera Network Nears 5,000 UnitsHanoi Police pilot a Smart Police platform as two phases put 4,297 analytics cameras on city roads and a 21,000-unit project gets under way.
WasteSPSA’s 20-Year AMP Waste Contract Secures $70 Million Project Debt From GalvanizeGalvanize leads $70M project debt for AMP's second Portsmouth sortation plant under SPSA's 20-year contract covering 1.2 million Virginians.
Earth Observation & Climate IntelligenceLatitudo 40 Raises €2.9M To Develop Agentic EO, Physical AI And Accelerate International GrowthNaples-based Latitudo 40 raises €2.9M led by Vertis SGR, with Kurrant Ventures and CRIF, to develop Agentic EO and Physical AI.
Mobility and TrafficTurin Tests Resident Mobility Dashboard From Latitudo 40 As App Reaches Milan With DottTurin receives an anonymised mobility dashboard from Latitudo 40's heat-aware routing app, now promoted in Milan with Dott free rides.
Smart GridPNM Begins $185 Million Smart Meter Rollout Amid New Mexico Billing ComplaintsPNM has started a $185 million rollout of 560,000 Itron smart meters in New Mexico after estimated-bill complaints and a record 2,264 MW peak.
Smart GridFlexyGrid Closes €750,000 Seed Round To Aggregate Flexibility For Italian Grid OperatorsFlexyGrid raises a €750,000 seed round to bid batteries, chargers and industrial loads into Italy's RomeFlex, MiNDFlex and EDGE pilots.
Smart GridColumbia, Missouri Approves $41.8 Million Ameresco Smart Meter Program For Electric And WaterColumbia, Missouri approves a $41.8 million Ameresco smart meter program to replace 106,739 electric and water meters from spring 2027.
Smart GridOsmose Acquires Alamon Utility Services Division And Alatrac Pole Inspection SoftwareOsmose buys Alamon's utility services division and its Alatrac pole inspection software, adding 500,000 annual wood pole inspections.
WasteVeolia Extends Camera-Based Waste Recognition To Business Collections In The LoiretVeolia extends Lixo camera-equipped collection trucks for commercial waste sorting to the Loiret, run from its Chaingy agency near Orléans.
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