Smart City & Utility Industry News

UDOT adds V2X systems to 100 more snowplows in Utah, doubling equipped vehicles to adjust traffic signals and speed up winter road clearing.

Vodacom Business rolls out its Digital Water Tower platform in Gauteng to cut municipal water losses and track usage in two phases.

Stadtsiedlung Heilbronn modernizes over 120 residential heating systems using IoT controls, cutting energy consumption by up to 20%.

Barcelona-based Sateliot raises €13.8 million from the Spanish government to expand its satellite IoT constellation to 100 nanosatellites.

EPRI and NVIDIA launch the Open Power AI Consortium to develop open energy models as global power demand rises 4% annually by 2027.

Helsingborg, Sweden, partners with Itron to install 670 smart lighting controllers in the first phase of upgrading its 30,000

ChapsVision acquires crisis management firm Iremos, adding 15 years of security expertise to expand its defense consulting and response tools.

CityFibre acquires Connexin's network assets to add up to 185,000 premises in Hull and East Riding and assume a key Project Gigabit contract.

Xcel Energy, Itron, and Tesla launch a virtual power plant in Colorado using software and Powerwalls to aggregate 3 million DER devices.

Itron partners with Microsoft to add generative AI to its utility operating system, enabling natural language data queries globally in Q2 2025.