Smart City & Utility Industry News

New Project (Full-Scale)Mobility and TrafficEnvironmental MonitoringSWARCOUK

Cambridgeshire Deploys Solar-Powered Flood Warning System On Flood-Prone Mill Lane

Mar 31, 2026

Cambridgeshire County Council has deployed a solar-powered flood warning system on Mill Lane in Little Paxton, targeting one of the county’s most disrupted road corridors with automated detection and real-time driver alerts. The system,...

New Project (Full-Scale)IoT NetworksNièvre NumériqueFrance

Cosne-Cours-Sur-Loire Among First To Receive Nièvre’s Public IoT Network

Mar 31, 2026

The commune of Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire in central France will be among the first localities covered by a new public low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) being rolled out by Nièvre Numérique, the department’s digital infrastructure authority....

New Project (Pilot)WasteVeoliaLIXOFrance

Bordeaux’s Commercial Waste Gets AI Treatment With Veolia’s Camera-Equipped Trucks

Mar 31, 2026

Four waste collection trucks fitted with AI-powered cameras have been operating across the Bordeaux metropolitan area since February 2026, analysing commercial waste streams in real time for approximately 2,000 businesses. The deployment is part of...

New Project (Full-Scale)Street LightingSpain

Rota Upgrades Seafront Lighting With LED And Smart Controls In €150,000 Project

Mar 31, 2026

The coastal municipality of Rota, in the province of Cádiz, is replacing 95 conventional streetlights along its seafront promenade with 86 LED luminaires equipped with point-to-point remote management technology. The €150,000 two-phase project,...

New Project (Full-Scale)Street LightingElbi Energy ProjectsRomania

Oradea Awards €950,000 Contract For Smart Lighting Overhaul In City Centre

Mar 31, 2026

The municipality of Oradea in western Romania has signed a contract to fully modernise the public lighting system across a key central corridor, replacing ageing overhead cables and concrete poles with a smart, underground LED network designed to...

New Project (Full-Scale)Mobility and TrafficAlchera TechnologiesUK

Nottingham Taps Alchera Technologies for AI Transport Data Hub

Mar 26, 2026

Nottingham City Council has selected Cambridge-based Alchera Technologies to build an AI-powered transport data platform that will consolidate the city’s fragmented mobility datasets into a single, centralised hub. The project falls under the...

Mergers and AcquisitionsEnergyOctopus EnergyUplight

Octopus Energy Acquires Majority Stake in US Grid Flexibility Platform Uplight

Mar 26, 2026

Octopus Energy Group, the UK-headquartered clean energy and technology company, is set to take a majority stake in Uplight, a Colorado-based provider of customer engagement and demand-side flexibility solutions that currently serves more than 85...

FundingMobility and TrafficNoTrafficPSG Equity

NoTraffic Secures $90M Series C to Scale AI-Powered Intersection Platform Across North America

Mar 26, 2026

Israeli-founded mobility technology company NoTraffic has closed a $90 million Series C funding round, bringing its total capital raised to approximately $165.5 million since its founding in 2017. The investment, led by growth equity firm PSG...

Mergers and AcquisitionsEnergyOnStream

UK Smart Meter Platform OnStream Acquired by Igneo From Macquarie

Mar 26, 2026

Igneo Infrastructure Partners, the direct infrastructure arm of First Sentier Investors, has agreed to purchase OnStream, the United Kingdom’s second-largest smart meter asset provider, from Macquarie Group‘s Specialised and Asset...

PolicyMobility and TrafficSecurityCNILFrance

France Draws a Hard Line on Audio Capture in Video-Monitored Public Spaces

Mar 25, 2026

France’s data protection authority has published new guidance clarifying that audio recording through video surveillance cameras remains firmly prohibited under national law, a ruling with direct consequences for smart city deployments that...