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27 Sep Environmental MonitoringWaikato Regional Council Funds $1.65 Million Upgrade Of 40 Flood Telemetry Sites

Waikato Regional Council's $1.65m upgrade adds repeaters and backup gauges at 40 flood telemetry sites, backed by the Regional Infrastructure Fund.

27 Sep Environmental MonitoringNew York DEC And USGS Launch FloodSafe NY Statewide Streamgage Network For Flood Warnings

New York's DEC contracts USGS to upgrade streamgages and add virtual gages under FloodSafe NY, a Bond Act-funded statewide flood warning network.

27 Sep Smart GridFlexyGrid Closes €750,000 Seed Round To Aggregate Flexibility For Italian Grid Operators

FlexyGrid raises a €750,000 seed round to bid batteries, chargers and industrial loads into Italy's RomeFlex, MiNDFlex and EDGE pilots.

27 Sep Smart GridColumbia, Missouri Approves $41.8 Million Ameresco Smart Meter Program For Electric And Water

Columbia, Missouri approves a $41.8 million Ameresco smart meter program to replace 106,739 electric and water meters from spring 2027.

27 Sep Smart GridOsmose Acquires Alamon Utility Services Division And Alatrac Pole Inspection Software

Osmose buys Alamon's utility services division and its Alatrac pole inspection software, adding 500,000 annual wood pole inspections.

27 Sep WasteVeolia Extends Camera-Based Waste Recognition To Business Collections In The Loiret

Veolia extends Lixo camera-equipped collection trucks for commercial waste sorting to the Loiret, run from its Chaingy agency near Orléans.

27 Sep Smart CityFerrara Looks To Tallinn’s €750,000 Digital Twin As It Plans Its Own

Ferrara has made the first of three EU-funded study visits to Tallinn and Norrköping to learn from their digital twins before building its own.

24 Sep IoT NetworksCSignum Raises £2.6M to Scale Through-Water IoT Links for Storm Overflow Monitoring

CSignum raises £2.6M to scale EM2 through-water IoT links used for UK storm overflow monitoring, and names John Nicholls as CEO.

24 Sep Mobility and TrafficLos Angeles to Extend AI Bus Lane Enforcement to 50 DASH Buses After Pilot

LADOT plans Hayden AI bus lane cameras on 50 DASH buses after a pilot logged 3,400 violations, building on Metro's $42.8M enforcement program.

23 Sep Street LightingCiviSmart Secures €120 Million From UniCredit, Natixis And BayernLB For Street Lighting Growth

CiviSmart, controlled by PATRIZIA, secures €120m from UniCredit, Natixis and BayernLB, with €50m more, to refinance debt and grow in Italy.

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