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13h agoDortmund Installs 92 Sensor-Equipped Big Belly Bins In 14 Parks And Zoo For €367,000 19h agoBarbados Government Explores Urban Hypervisor Platform Modelled On Brazilian System YesterdayPorto-Vecchio To Fit 12,800 Water Meters With Remote Reading In €1M Project YesterdayDuquesne Light Adds 20,000 Itron Edge Intelligence Endpoints To Pittsburgh Grid YesterdayVoltus Raises $225M Series D Led By Generation Investment Management YesterdayRabot Energy Raises €50M Series B Led By Endeit And DeepTech & Climate Fonds YesterdayNew Orleans Sewerage And Water Board Installs Smart Meters For All Residential Customers 17 OctSouthern Water Tests Lightsonic Leak Detection On Openreach’s Fibre Network 16 OctConnexin Secures Up To £35M To Extend UK LoRaWAN Smart Water Meter Network 14 OctTelefónica Tech Launches In-House Cloud Platform For Remote Management Of Smart Water Meters

Smart 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.

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1 Jul Street LightingLleida Awards €31M Contract for Smart Lighting Upgrade

Lleida awards a €31.3M contract to Edison Next and Romero Polo to replace 14,545 streetlights with LEDs and install 200 environmental sensors.

1 Jul Environmental MonitoringDortmund Launches Citywide Heat Monitoring Network to Boost Climate Resilience

Dortmund deploys 76 climate monitoring stations to track urban heat stress in real time, providing data for local climate adaptation planning.

1 Jul VideosurveillanceSan Diego Halts Surveillance Tech Funding Amid Privacy Concerns

San Diego City Council suspends funding for its 500 smart streetlights and ALPRs under a $12M contract after unauthorized data access.

1 Jul Street LightingAlmería Secures €2.36M for Efficient Smart Lighting Upgrades

Spain awards Almería €2.36 million for municipal smart lighting. The interest-free loan covers 100% of LED upgrades in Vícar and Níjar.

24 Jun Mobility and TrafficSanta Monica Introduces AI Cameras to Enforce Bus Lane Rules

Santa Monica deploys bus-mounted AI cameras to ticket lane violations starting July 1, following a pilot that detected 511 illegal vehicles.

24 Jun EnergyOstrom Secures €20M to Expand Smart Energy Solutions in Germany

Berlin energy provider Ostrom raises €20 million in Series B funding to deploy smart meters across Germany and scale its virtual power plant.

24 Jun Smart CityRiverside Public Utilities Expands Smart Grid Upgrades with AMI Deployment

Riverside Public Utilities is replacing 80,000 legacy meters with an AMI system in California to boost grid resilience and efficiency.

24 Jun Building EfficiencyVichy Community Partners with Tiko to Offer Free Smart Thermostats for Electric Heating

Vichy Community teams with Tiko to install free smart thermostats across 8,700 homes, aiming to cut electric heating costs by up to 25%.

24 Jun Mobility and TrafficLuxembourg Launches €5M “Smart City” Funding Initiative

Luxembourg introduces a €5 million fund for municipal smart city projects, providing up to €500,000 per project to improve resource and energy use.

24 Jun EnergyGreece Launches Major Smart Grid Modernization Project with Itron Smart Meters

Greece’s HEDNO signs with Itron to manage 7.7 million meters and deploy nearly 1 million NB-IoT units to support net-zero emissions by 2050.

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