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Smart GridSEWA Installs Over 3,200 Smart Electricity Meters In Sharjah And Replaces 1,600 In Q3 2026
WaterIntellihub Acquires Taggle Systems For A$50M To Add Water Metering Network And Aqualus Software
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Valdepeñas Approves €225,523 Credit For €1.5M Red.es-Funded Smart Territory Project Mexico City Plans €48 Million First Phase Of Adaptive Traffic Signals With Transit Priority
Barcelona City Council Picks Kapsch and Acisa for €100,000 Each to Pilot AI Traffic Signals
City Of Zadar Selects ELIPSA For €197,900 Design Of Intelligent Transport System Phase Two
Trapani Water Authority Asks Sicily For €95M, Including €51M For Smart Meters Veolia-Led TransmitWater Project Maps Pipe-Break Risk From Pressure Transients In Four Spanish Networks
Nicosia District Water Authority Begins 72,000 Ultrasonic Smart Meter Rollout With Cyta
Thames Water Tenders £1.58B Smart Metering Contract in Two Lots Running to 2035 and Beyond
Viterbo Deploys 12 AirQino Air Quality Stations With Boldyn Networks Italia and CNR UK National Parks Launch Wildfire Resilience Programme In Cairngorms
Victoria Adds 11 AI Bushfire Cameras To Seven-Unit Plantation Network In A$3.8M Programme
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Inexogy is fitting smart meters at 712 450connect radio sites, linked over LTE450, to test 450 MHz gateway connectivity by January 2027.
Smart GridSEWA Installs Over 3,200 Smart Electricity Meters In Sharjah And Replaces 1,600 In Q3 2026Sharjah's SEWA installed over 3,200 electricity meters and replaced 1,600 mechanical units in Q3 2026, about 40% below its 2025 quarterly average.
WaterIntellihub Acquires Taggle Systems For A$50M To Add Water Metering Network And Aqualus SoftwareIntellihub is reported to be buying water IoT firm Taggle Systems for A$50M (US$34.4M), adding the Byron network and Aqualus platform used by 45+…
VideosurveillanceQuincy Replaces 50 Flock Safety License Plate Cameras With Axis Hardware Running OdinEyeQuincy, Massachusetts is replacing its 50 Flock Safety plate-reader cameras with Axis Communications hardware and OdinEye software after an 8-1 council vote.
Mobility and TrafficModaxo Acquires Brazilian Traffic And Tolling Supplier FiscaltechModaxo acquires Curitiba-based Fiscaltech, whose traffic control, free-flow tolling and weigh-in-motion systems manage over 4,000 lanes in 25 Brazilian states.
Street LightingAléria Closes €793,236.52 Street Lighting Renovation Backed By State, Corsican Agency And EDFAléria in Corsica closed its public lighting renovation at €793,236.52 in April 2026, with €572,653.44 of external funding and 500 LED streetlights reported.
IoT and Smart City PlatformHameln-Pyrmont Tenders Open Source Urban Data PlatformLandkreis Hameln-Pyrmont seeks a contractor to rebuild its open source Urban Data Platform for 2027 to mid-2028; bids close on 1 December 2026.
Mobility and TrafficLandkreis Hof Opens TauSENSE App To Public Using Data From 130 Road Dew-Point SensorsLandkreis Hof in Bavaria presents the TauSENSE winter-service app, fed by dew-point sensors at 130 sites and funded under Germany's federal Smart City programme.
WasteChauny-Tergnier-La Fère Inverts Bin Collection And Adds AI Truck Cameras From February 2027Chauny-Tergnier-La Fère will swap bin frequencies from 1 February 2027 and fit SEPUR trucks with AI cameras under a €20.33M, six-year contract.
WaterAlgarve Approves €9M ERDF-Backed Smart Water Telemetry Project Across 16 MunicipalitiesAMAL's €9M smart water project, with about €6M from ERDF under ALGARVE 2030, will install telemetry platforms in Algarve water supply networks.
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