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WasteChauny-Tergnier-La Fère Inverts Bin Collection And Adds AI Truck Cameras From February 2027
WaterAlgarve Approves €9M ERDF-Backed Smart Water Telemetry Project Across 16 Municipalities
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Barcelona City Council Picks Kapsch and Acisa for €100,000 Each to Pilot AI Traffic Signals City Of Zadar Selects ELIPSA For €197,900 Design Of Intelligent Transport System Phase Two
Via Lietuva Awards Jenoptik Baltic €2M Contract For 216 ANPR Cameras On Lithuanian Toll Roads
USDOT Selects UCLA, University Of Michigan And Derq For $5.5M Intersection Safety Phase One
Thames Water Tenders £1.58B Smart Metering Contract in Two Lots Running to 2035 and Beyond Portugal’s €5B Água que Une Water Strategy Faces €371M Annual EU-Identified Funding Gap
Saudi Fund for Development Signs $403M Syria Loans Including $30M Smart Water Metering
Zagreb Cancels €40M Remote Water Meter Reading Tender and Prepares For a New One
Viterbo Deploys 12 AirQino Air Quality Stations With Boldyn Networks Italia and CNR UK National Parks Launch Wildfire Resilience Programme In Cairngorms
Victoria Adds 11 AI Bushfire Cameras To Seven-Unit Plantation Network In A$3.8M Programme
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South AfricaeThekwini Municipality Plans Citywide Smart Water Meter Rollout Against 58% Non-Revenue Water ItalyRegione Basilicata Opens €18.8M Public Lighting Call For Comuni And Two Provinces RomaniaBrașov City Hall Opens €32M Framework Tender For Four Years Of Design Services UKUK Space Agency Opens £2M Satellite Grant Call For Environmental Intelligence And Emissions MonitoringKurrant 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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Landkreis Hof in Bavaria presents the TauSENSE winter-service app, fed by dew-point sensors at 130 sites and funded under Germany's federal Smart City programme.
WasteChauny-Tergnier-La Fère Inverts Bin Collection And Adds AI Truck Cameras From February 2027Chauny-Tergnier-La Fère will swap bin frequencies from 1 February 2027 and fit SEPUR trucks with AI cameras under a €20.33M, six-year contract.
WaterAlgarve Approves €9M ERDF-Backed Smart Water Telemetry Project Across 16 MunicipalitiesAMAL's €9M smart water project, with about €6M from ERDF under ALGARVE 2030, will install telemetry platforms in Algarve water supply networks.
WaterTrapani Water Authority Asks Sicily For €95M, Including €51M For Smart MetersTrapani's water authority asks Sicily for over €95 million, with €51 million for smart meters across 14 ex-EAS municipalities and the rest of the…
Smart CityValdepeñas Approves €225,523 Credit For €1.5M Red.es-Funded Smart Territory ProjectValdepeñas approved a €225,523 credit for its €1.5M Valdepeñas Conectada programme, 85% funded by Red.es, with an open data platform and digital twin.
WaterVeolia-Led TransmitWater Project Maps Pipe-Break Risk From Pressure Transients In Four Spanish NetworksTransmitWater, led by Veolia with Aigües de Barcelona and Cetaqua, ends three years with a break-risk tool tested in four Spanish networks.
WaterNicosia District Water Authority Begins 72,000 Ultrasonic Smart Meter Rollout With CytaEOA Nicosia begins replacing 72,000 water meters with ultrasonic smart meters in Engomi under a €6.5 million EU co-financed contract with Cyta.
Mobility and TrafficMexico City Plans €48 Million First Phase Of Adaptive Traffic Signals With Transit PriorityMexico City sets aside about €48 million (MXN 1 billion) for a 2027 first phase of adaptive traffic signals with transit priority.
VideosurveillanceAlbania Earmarks €33 Million In 2027 Budget For Presight-Built Smart City SurveillanceAlbania's 2027 draft budget sets aside about €33 million (3 billion lek) for its Presight-built Smart City programme covering 8,657 cameras.
Smart Grided Eléctrica Deploys NB-IoT-Connected Dynamic Line Rating on 220 kV Pyrenees LineRed Eléctrica completes live-line Dynamic Line Rating on the 220 kV Pobla-T Sesué line, with 35 instrumented spans and 14 weather stations.
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