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1h agoTelefónica Tech Launches In-House Cloud Platform For Remote Management Of Smart Water Meters 1h agoOrbitworks And Loft Orbital Launch First Of 50 AI Satellites Running Mistral Models In $1B Programme 4h agoMaricopa County Adds Kapsch TrafficCom Roadside Units To USD 19.6 Million V2X Acceleration Zone 4h agoEscobar Signs Four-Year Hikvision Agreement To Turn Monitoring Centre Into Smart City Innovation Lab 4h agoAlchera Technologies Raises £2.7 Million Seed To Scale M25 Traffic Forecasting For UK Highways 4h agoSwitched Source Raises Over $17 Million To Scale Phase-EQ Grid Capacity Units 10h agoThames Water Opens Market Engagement On A 22-Year Smart Metering Framework Running To 2050 11h agoSubeca Raises About $3M Series A-2 From Burnt Island Ventures, Cycle H2O And SUEZ 11h agoTronsanges Becomes Test Commune For LoRaWAN Street Lighting Controls In France’s Nièvre Department 10 OctGreek Probe Into €500M Of Smart Water Meter Tenders

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Projects, tenders, funding and deals in smart water, mobility, lighting, energy and IoT, reported every day by the Kurrant news desk.

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10 Apr VideosurveillanceBucharest to Boost Safety with AI-Enhanced Surveillance System

Bucharest's Sector 6 is deploying 3,000 AI-powered surveillance cameras to improve public safety and alert local police to criminal behavior.

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.

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