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3 to 5 Nov 2026Smart City & Utility Industry News
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WaterEddy Solutions Signs Water Detection Deal With FirstService Residential, Monitoring 30 Communities
Environmental MonitoringViterbo Deploys 12 AirQino Air Quality Stations With Boldyn Networks Italia and CNR
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Via Lietuva Awards Jenoptik Baltic €2M Contract For 216 ANPR Cameras On Lithuanian Toll Roads USDOT Selects UCLA, University Of Michigan And Derq For $5.5M Intersection Safety Phase One
MBTA Begins Hayden AI Bus Lane And Bus Stop Camera Enforcement On Routes SL4 And SL5
Los Angeles Council Approves 50 DASH Bus Enforcement Cameras In $3.43M Hayden AI Contract
Ameresco Completes $5.9M Water Metering Upgrade Covering 8,000 Meters In Mustang, Oklahoma Houston City Council Raises Sensus Water Meter Contract Ceiling To $43.5M
Riba-roja del Túria Pilots Four Grades Of Reclaimed Water Under €10M CircSyst Project
Saanich Starts Five-Year Upgrade Of Water Meter Reading Equipment At 30,000 Properties
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
Korea National Park Service Builds Bandal Lens AI To Identify 17 Mammal Species From 1,300 Cameras
UK Space Agency Opens £2M Satellite Grant Call For Environmental Intelligence And Emissions Monitoring
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ItalyRegione Basilicata Opens €18.8M Public Lighting Call For Comuni And Two Provinces RomaniaBrașov City Hall Opens €32M Framework Tender For Four Years Of Design Services BarbadosBarbados Government Explores Urban Hypervisor Platform Modelled On Brazilian System UKThames Water Opens Market Engagement On A 22-Year Smart Metering Framework Running To 2050Kurrant 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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Pennsylvania's Freeland Municipal Authority links 74 acoustic leak loggers and 15 AMI meters to Bentley WaterSight in a $225,033 non-revenue water project.
WaterEddy Solutions Signs Water Detection Deal With FirstService Residential, Monitoring 30 CommunitiesEddy Smart Home Solutions monitors 30 FirstService Residential communities under a January 2026 agreement and reports 145,127 devices installed across its base.
Environmental MonitoringViterbo Deploys 12 AirQino Air Quality Stations With Boldyn Networks Italia and CNRViterbo contracts Boldyn Networks Italia and CNR for 12 AirQino stations that forecast air quality and map urban heat islands under Living Smart Viterbo.
WaterBadger Meter Acquires Australia’s 37South to Enter Market After SmartCover and UDlive DealsBadger Meter bought Melbourne-based 37South on 3 November 2026, adding Australian remote monitoring to a BlueEdge line built on SmartCover and UDlive.
WatereThekwini Municipality Plans Citywide Smart Water Meter Rollout Against 58% Non-Revenue WatereThekwini plans citywide smart water meters as 58% of supply goes unbilled; 2,000 installed so far against a 40,000-meter annual target.
V2XThe Australian Renewable Energy Agency Funds A$4.1M JET Charge V2G TrialARENA backs JET Charge's REVS2 project to put up to 130 bidirectional-charging EVs in the ACT Government fleet through June 2029, a A$5.35M trial.
Street LightingTALQ Consortium Releases Edition 5 Tender Template For Interoperable Smart Street LightingTALQ Consortium publishes Edition 5 of its free Tender Template in seven languages, adding two DALI D4i Zhaga profiles for smart street lighting.
Mobility and TrafficCity Of Zadar Selects ELIPSA For €197,900 Design Of Intelligent Transport System Phase TwoZadar picks ELIPSA for the €197,900 design of ITS phase two, covering 27 new micro-locations, after a single-bid procurement on 22 October 2026.
WasteTrashLab Raises $12M Growth Round Led By Ventana For Waste Hauler SoftwareTrashLab raises $12 million led by Ventana to scale its software for waste haulers, with more than 40 U.S. states and Canada in its…
Street LightingCovilhã Municipality Awards €19M 16-Year Contract For 19,533 Connected LED StreetlightsCovilhã, Portugal contracts ARQUILED and Amener for 19,533 LoRaWAN-connected LED luminaires, targeting an 80% cut in lighting energy use.
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