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1h agoed Eléctrica Deploys NB-IoT-Connected Dynamic Line Rating on 220 kV Pyrenees Line 1h agoNyquis Raises $6.3M Seed Round For Substation Waveform Monitoring To Cut Wildfire Risk 2h agoBMF GRUP Signs Deal to Buy 100% of Romanian Smart Lighting Firm Flash Lighting Services 2h agoThames Water Tenders £1.58B Smart Metering Contract in Two Lots Running to 2035 and Beyond 3h agoGreece Directs €325.3M to Municipal Smart City and Digital Transformation Programmes 3h agoEmcali Selects Consortium for COP 450B Cali Streetlight Overhaul of 101,037 LED Luminaires 3h agoCanberra Adds 16,000 Itron Controllers, Taking Connected Streetlights Above 47,000 4h agoBarcelona City Council Picks Kapsch and Acisa for €100,000 Each to Pilot AI Traffic Signals 4h agoSortrace Raises $800,000 Led by Almi Invest for Waste Truck Sorting Cameras in Sweden 5h agoPortugal’s €5B Água que Une Water Strategy Faces €371M Annual EU-Identified Funding Gap

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10 Apr Street LightingZaragoza Launches Smart Street Light Initiative

Zaragoza upgrades 10,000 streetlights to LED with a 10 million euro grant. The project cuts annual lighting costs by 2.1 million euros.

10 Apr Street LightingSanta Cruz de Tenerife Kicks Off Smart Street Lighting Project

Santa Cruz de Tenerife begins a 3 million euro project to upgrade 5,451 streetlights to LEDs, cutting city energy consumption by 61%.

10 Apr Street LightingWest Berkshire Aims for Improved Road Gritting with IoT Thermal Sensors

West Berkshire Council launches a £225,000 IoT sensor project with Volker Highways, targeting a 40% cut in winter road treatments by 2027.

10 Apr Environmental MonitoringU.S. Government Unlocks $79M for Wildfire Management

The Biden-Harris administration is allocating $79 million to improve U.S. wildfire management, including $10.5 million for remote sensing tech.

3 Apr WasteParis’s Eco-District to End Pneumatic Waste Collection System

Paris will end the 20 million euro pneumatic waste collection system in its Martin-Luther-King eco-district on May 19 due to high costs.

3 Apr IoT NetworksConnexin and NYnet Boost IoT Network in North Yorkshire

Connexin and NYnet add 57 LoRaWAN gateways in North Yorkshire under an £80m project, helping Yorkshire Water cut leakage by 50% by

3 Apr EnergySmart Meter Challenges in Great Britain Show Slow Improvement

Faulty smart meters in Great Britain fell to 3.98 million at the end of 2023, down from 4.31 million in June, according

3 Apr Environmental MonitoringArcadis to Develop Digital Twin for Houston’s Water Distribution

Arcadis partners with Houston Public Works on a $5.7 million project to build a digital twin that will help manage localized water pressure issues.

3 Apr WaterSharjah Advances Water Management with Smart Meters

SEWA installs 91,155 smart water meters across Sharjah toward its 125,000 target by 2024, enabling real-time monitoring and leak detection.

3 Apr VideosurveillanceSan Jose Launches AI Pilot for Identifying Homeless Encampments

San Jose tests AI-equipped cameras on a municipal vehicle to detect homeless encampments, raising local privacy and policing concerns.

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