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Brisbane City Council will trial AI-enabled drowning detection cameras at two of its busiest public swimming pools, Runcorn Aquatic Centre and Yeronga Memorial Pool, under an initiative made public on 11 August 2026. The system, supplied by...
The Ayuntamiento de Rivas Vaciamadrid confirmed on 7 August 2026 that it has completed the installation of seven new SOS alarm posts across the municipality, taking the city’s total from two to nine. The units, sited in parks, streets and...
The Kent County Department of Public Works in Michigan is installing an AMP ONE municipal solid waste sorting system at its Waste-to-Energy Facility in Grand Rapids, deploying computer vision and pneumatic sortation from Colorado-based AMP to pull...
Valencia City Council has begun operating a smart urban irrigation pilot announced on 11 August 2026 under the Sandbox Urbà, the municipal framework that allows companies to test unproven technology in live city conditions. The trial covers roughly...
The City of Porvoo, Finland, is putting an autonomous electric street-sweeping robot into service in early August 2026, cleaning the pedestrian and paved areas of Porvoo Market Square and the riverside district, mainly overnight. The machine,...
The California Department of Transportation is set to begin a $145 million construction project on the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge in October 2026, installing an 8-foot steel wire mesh barrier and 20 artificial-intelligence-enabled surveillance...
A new academic-industry research hub focused on decarbonising the UK’s transport networks has secured £46 million in funding, led jointly by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow. The initiative, named TransiT,...
The Huelva City Council awarded a 12 year, €71.4 million energy efficiency contract on August 5, 2026, unifying street lighting, municipal building electrical and thermal systems, and ornamental fountains under a single service for the first time....
Warsaw’s Zarząd Dróg Miejskich (ZDM), the city’s municipal roads authority, has selected Emitel as the winning bidder to design, build and operate an intelligent street lighting control system covering more than 110,000 luminaires. The...
Iblea Acque S.p.A., the publicly owned utility that manages the integrated water service for the 12 municipalities of Italy’s Ragusa province in Sicily, has been admitted to a national grant program that will provide more than €17 million...
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