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3h agoBrașov City Hall Opens €32M Framework Tender For Four Years Of Design Services 3h agoEuropean Commission Allocates €3.8B To 212 Projects Across Innovation Fund And LIFE Programme 4h agoKingston University Leads £3.6M National Waste And Recycling Robotics Adoption Hub 4h agoKorea National Park Service Builds Bandal Lens AI To Identify 17 Mammal Species From 1,300 Cameras 4h agoUK Space Agency Opens £2M Satellite Grant Call For Environmental Intelligence And Emissions Monitoring 12h agoAllstate’s Arity To Acquire INRIX Assets To Merge Driving And Traffic Data 12h agoEZO Secures €150M Senior Debt Facility For 3,000 EV Charge Points In UK And Ireland YesterdayDortmund Installs 92 Sensor-Equipped Big Belly Bins In 14 Parks And Zoo For €367,000 18 OctBarbados Government Explores Urban Hypervisor Platform Modelled On Brazilian System 18 OctPorto-Vecchio To Fit 12,800 Water Meters With Remote Reading In €1M Project

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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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5 Dec VideosurveillanceFireDome Secures $4.5M to Enhance Wildfire Defense

Tel Aviv startup FireDome raises $4.5M to advance autonomous wildfire defense technology that deploys eco-friendly fire retardant capsules.

5 Dec Smart GridEnergy Network Operator Red Eléctrica Implements Advanced Digital Twin Technology in Spain

Red Eléctrica launches a cloud digital twin for its Spanish grid, giving up to 1,500 users centralized asset data to support clean energy.

26 Nov Building EfficiencyEtalytics Secures €8M to Drive AI-Powered Energy Efficiency

Darmstadt-based etalytics raises €8M in Series A funding to scale its AI energy platform, which cuts industrial energy use by up to 50%.

26 Nov Smart GridSmart Metering Specialist Bluecurrent Acquires Metropolis Metering

Australasia’s Bluecurrent acquires Melbourne-based Metropolis Metering, adding to its platform of over 2.4 million meters across the region.

26 Nov VideosurveillanceReno to Deploy Gunfire Detection Tech Downtown in 2025

Reno invests $450,000 to deploy gunfire detection and over 40 cameras across downtown in 2025, alerting police to shots in under 60 seconds.

26 Nov IoT NetworksNetmore and Vantage Towers Partner for LoRaWAN® Connectivity in Portugal

Netmore deploys LoRaWAN gateways across Vantage Towers' network of over 3,500 sites in Portugal to aid utility metering and leak detection.

26 Nov WaterSUEZ and IOWIZMI Partner for 10-Year Smart Meter Collaboration in France

SUEZ and IOWIZMI partner in France to share a network serving 11 million smart gas meters, helping cut water consumption by up to 16%.

24 Nov EV ChargingPG&E and Itron Pilot Real-Time EV Charging Solution with Grid-Edge Tech

PG&E and Itron launch a grid-edge computing pilot for 1,000 customers to manage EV charging loads in real time and avoid home panel upgrades.

24 Nov Smart GridNational Grid Rolls Out AMI 2.0

National Grid begins deploying smart meters in Western New York in January as part of a plan to install 1.7 million electric units in…

24 Nov Building EfficiencyMETRON Secures €12.5M to Boost Energy Efficiency for Industries

French cleantech firm METRON raises €12.5M in funding led by Germany's GET Fund to expand its industrial energy management platform globally.

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