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3 to 5 Nov 2026Smart City & Utility Industry News
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Smart Grided Eléctrica Deploys NB-IoT-Connected Dynamic Line Rating on 220 kV Pyrenees Line
Smart GridNyquis Raises $6.3M Seed Round For Substation Waveform Monitoring To Cut Wildfire Risk
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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
MBTA Begins Hayden AI Bus Lane And Bus Stop Camera Enforcement On Routes SL4 And SL5
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
Freeland Municipal Authority Deploys $225,033 Digital Twin With 74 Leak Loggers in Pennsylvania
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
Korea National Park Service Builds Bandal Lens AI To Identify 17 Mammal Species From 1,300 Cameras
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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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Albania'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.
Smart GridNyquis Raises $6.3M Seed Round For Substation Waveform Monitoring To Cut Wildfire RiskNyquis raises a $6.3 million seed round co-led by Gigascale Capital and South Park Commons for substation sensors that flag wildfire-risk faults.
Street LightingBMF GRUP Signs Deal to Buy 100% of Romanian Smart Lighting Firm Flash Lighting ServicesBMF GRUP signed on 3 November 2026 to acquire 100% of Bucharest's Flash Lighting Services, targeting EUR 180 million turnover by end-2026 and EUR…
WaterThames Water Tenders £1.58B Smart Metering Contract in Two Lots Running to 2035 and BeyondThames Water's £1.584 billion Future Smart Metering tender splits into a £1.38 billion installation lot and £204 million connectivity lot; award due September 2027.
Smart CityGreece Directs €325.3M to Municipal Smart City and Digital Transformation ProgrammesGreece funds €325.3M for municipal digital projects: €90M for 17 cities via the Recovery Facility and €235.3M under ESPA for all 332 municipalities.
Street LightingEmcali Selects Consortium for COP 450B Cali Streetlight Overhaul of 101,037 LED LuminairesEmcali picked Consorcio AP Santiago de Cali on 3 November 2026 to fit 101,037 LED luminaires with Ubicquia telemanagement in a COP 450 billion,…
Street LightingCanberra Adds 16,000 Itron Controllers, Taking Connected Streetlights Above 47,000ACT Government's City and Environment Directorate adds 16,000 Itron lighting controllers via Omexom, lifting Canberra's connected lights from 31,000 to over 47,000.
Mobility and TrafficBarcelona City Council Picks Kapsch and Acisa for €100,000 Each to Pilot AI Traffic SignalsBarcelona's Innova Lab Mobility chose Kapsch and Acisa on 3 November 2026 for four-month AI traffic signal pilots funded with €100,000 each, due in…
WasteSortrace Raises $800,000 Led by Almi Invest for Waste Truck Sorting Cameras in SwedenStockholm start-up Sortrace raises about $800,000 led by Almi Invest to scale truck-mounted cameras that measure household waste sorting for municipalities.
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