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Vancouver-based SenseNet has acquired the wildfire detection division of Rockville, Maryland-based N5 Sensors, the companies confirmed this week, as the Canadian sensor and satellite fire-detection firm moves to expand its footprint in the United...
The Madrid City Council has installed a network of 15 artificial intelligence powered acoustic sensors across two of the capital’s largest green spaces, Madrid Río and the Valdebebas-Felipe VI Forest Park, to monitor bird and bat activity in...
A DigitalBridge-managed investment vehicle has agreed to acquire PLUS ES, the smart metering arm of Australia’s Ausgrid Group, the companies announced on August 27, 2026. The deal, whose value was not disclosed, hands the US-based digital...
The Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Austrian intelligent transport systems supplier Kapsch TrafficCom have moved into the delivery phase of a municipal parking information contract that will pipe real-time occupancy data from 24 car parks...
Scottish Water has awarded an eight-year framework for a Meter Data Management System (MDMS) to Elster Water Metering, trading as Honeywell, concluding the contract on 19 August 2026 and publishing the award notice on 24 August. The platform will...
Aarhus Vand, the municipal water and wastewater utility serving Denmark’s second-largest city, has begun replacing mechanical water meters with approximately 69,000 remotely read digital units across Aarhus Municipality, in a programme that...
The Municipality of Heraklion, Crete’s largest city, said on 24 August 2026 that its “Smart City and Sustainability Actions” sub-project is approaching completion, with structural seismic monitoring, municipal energy metering, a...
Croatia’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition announced on 24 August 2026 that the national video surveillance system for early detection of forest and forest-land fires has been extended by 50 monitoring cameras across...
The Municipality of San Isidro, a district of roughly 290,000 residents north of Buenos Aires, has completed the replacement of its analog video surveillance estate with more than 2,600 high-definition cameras that classify people, vehicles and...
Granada City Council announced on 23 August 2026 that it has been awarded 2,624,000 euros by Spain’s Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, channelled through the public entity Red.es, to fund artificial intelligence and...
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