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WasteDortmund Installs 92 Sensor-Equipped Big Belly Bins In 14 Parks And Zoo For €367,000

Dortmund 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 System

Barbados 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 Project

Porto-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 Grid

Duquesne 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 Management

Voltus 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 Fonds

Hamburg-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 Customers

Sewerage 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 Network

Southern Water deploys Lightsonic fibre-sensing leak detection on Openreach cables; the vendor claims 650 km covered and 4 million litres a day saved.

 WaterConnexin Secures Up To £35M To Extend UK LoRaWAN Smart Water Meter Network

Hull-based Connexin announces up to £35 million in facilities from Santander UK and PATRIZIA funds to extend its LoRaWAN smart water meter network.

 WaterTelefónica Tech Launches In-House Cloud Platform For Remote Management Of Smart Water Meters

Telefónica Tech launched its own cloud platform on 14 October 2026 for utilities and councils to monitor smart water meters from several manufacturers.

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