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3 to 5 Nov 2026Smart City & Utility Industry News
Projects, tenders, funding and deals in smart water, mobility, lighting, energy and IoT, reported every day by the Kurrant news desk.
Mobility and TrafficAllstate’s Arity To Acquire INRIX Assets To Merge Driving And Traffic Data
EV ChargingEZO Secures €150M Senior Debt Facility For 3,000 EV Charge Points In UK And Ireland
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Alchera Technologies Raises £2.7 Million Seed To Scale M25 Traffic Forecasting For UK Highways Boston Public Schools Opens Bidding For AI Stop-Arm Cameras
Arrive Completes Acquisition Of Passport, A Parking Software Provider With 800+ Clients
Kurrant Advises Telraam on Its Sale to Quanteo, Parent Company of Eco-Counter
Southern Water Tests Lightsonic Leak Detection On Openreach’s Fibre Network Connexin Secures Up To £35M To Extend UK LoRaWAN Smart Water Meter Network
Telefónica Tech Launches In-House Cloud Platform For Remote Management Of Smart Water Meters
Subeca Raises About $3M Series A-2 From Burnt Island Ventures, Cycle H2O And SUEZ
Cartagena Tenders €130,258 Sensor Network For Air, Weather And Pedestrian Data Blanca Connects Two Air Quality And Noise Stations To Murcia’s SmartRegion Platform
Waikato Regional Council Funds $1.65 Million Upgrade Of 40 Flood Telemetry Sites
New York DEC And USGS Launch FloodSafe NY Statewide Streamgage Network For Flood Warnings
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IraqIraq’s National Investment Commission Announces Smart Waste Collection Scheme For Karbala GreeceGreek Ministry Of Digital Governance Receives Four Bids For 1,000-Camera Enforcement Network ItalyMonza Approves €615,000 Camera Upgrade At 14 Signalised Intersections Under SAMU Project ColombiaBogotá Plans 100,000 Telemanaged LED Streetlights As Enel Lighting Agreement Ends In NovemberKurrant 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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Arity, Allstate's mobility data unit, agreed on October 16, 2026 to acquire substantially all INRIX assets, with closing expected in 2026.
EV ChargingEZO Secures €150M Senior Debt Facility For 3,000 EV Charge Points In UK And IrelandEZO reached financial close on a €150 million, seven-year non-recourse facility to fund more than 3,000 EV charge points across the UK and Ireland.
WasteDortmund Installs 92 Sensor-Equipped Big Belly Bins In 14 Parks And Zoo For €367,000Dortmund has placed 92 solar-powered, fill-level-reporting Big Belly bins in 14 green spaces and its zoo in a €366,700 pilot funded 65% by the…
IoT and Smart City PlatformBarbados Government Explores Urban Hypervisor Platform Modelled On Brazilian SystemBarbados is examining an urban hypervisor to unify traffic, energy, transport and surveillance data, with Curitiba's €1.1M platform as the nearest benchmark.
WaterPorto-Vecchio To Fit 12,800 Water Meters With Remote Reading In €1M ProjectPorto-Vecchio will fit 12,800 water meters with remote reading in a €1M project due by June 2028, as its water contract nears expiry.
Smart GridDuquesne Light Adds 20,000 Itron Edge Intelligence Endpoints To Pittsburgh GridDuquesne Light Company expands its Itron partnership with 20,000 distributed intelligence endpoints for fault detection across its Pittsburgh-area grid.
Smart GridVoltus Raises $225M Series D Led By Generation Investment ManagementVoltus raises an oversubscribed $225 million Series D to grow its flexible capacity from 8.5 GW toward 20 GW by 2030 across the US…
Smart GridRabot Energy Raises €50M Series B Led By Endeit And DeepTech & Climate FondsHamburg-based Rabot Energy raises a €50 million Series B to grow past 200,000 customers and link home batteries into a virtual power plant.
WaterNew Orleans Sewerage And Water Board Installs Smart Meters For All Residential CustomersSewerage and Water Board of New Orleans has installed smart meters for all residential customers in a programme sized at about 140,000 meters.
WaterSouthern Water Tests Lightsonic Leak Detection On Openreach’s Fibre NetworkSouthern Water deploys Lightsonic fibre-sensing leak detection on Openreach cables; the vendor claims 650 km covered and 4 million litres a day saved.
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