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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
Ameresco Completes $5.9M Water Metering Upgrade Covering 8,000 Meters In Mustang, Oklahoma Houston City Council Raises Sensus Water Meter Contract Ceiling To $43.5M
Riba-roja del Túria Pilots Four Grades Of Reclaimed Water Under €10M CircSyst Project
Saanich Starts Five-Year Upgrade Of Water Meter Reading Equipment At 30,000 Properties
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
UK Space Agency Opens £2M Satellite Grant Call For Environmental Intelligence And Emissions Monitoring
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WaterPortugal’s €5B Água que Une Water Strategy Faces €371M Annual EU-Identified Funding GapPortugal's €5 billion Água que Une strategy, approved 24 June 2026 with about 300 measures, faces a €371 million annual financing gap by 2027,…
WaterSaudi Fund for Development Signs $403M Syria Loans Including $30M Smart Water MeteringThe Saudi Fund for Development signed six loans worth over $403M with Syria on 4 November 2026, including $30M for smart water meters in…
WaterZagreb Cancels €40M Remote Water Meter Reading Tender and Prepares For a New OneZagreb has annulled its roughly €40M LoRaWAN water meter reading tender after an anti-corruption raid; a new procedure waits on the city's LoRaWAN network.
WaterFreeland Municipal Authority Deploys $225,033 Digital Twin With 74 Leak Loggers in PennsylvaniaPennsylvania's Freeland Municipal Authority links 74 acoustic leak loggers and 15 AMI meters to Bentley WaterSight in a $225,033 non-revenue water project.
WaterEddy Solutions Signs Water Detection Deal With FirstService Residential, Monitoring 30 CommunitiesEddy Smart Home Solutions monitors 30 FirstService Residential communities under a January 2026 agreement and reports 145,127 devices installed across its base.
Environmental MonitoringViterbo Deploys 12 AirQino Air Quality Stations With Boldyn Networks Italia and CNRViterbo contracts Boldyn Networks Italia and CNR for 12 AirQino stations that forecast air quality and map urban heat islands under Living Smart Viterbo.
WaterBadger Meter Acquires Australia’s 37South to Enter Market After SmartCover and UDlive DealsBadger Meter bought Melbourne-based 37South on 3 November 2026, adding Australian remote monitoring to a BlueEdge line built on SmartCover and UDlive.
WatereThekwini Municipality Plans Citywide Smart Water Meter Rollout Against 58% Non-Revenue WatereThekwini plans citywide smart water meters as 58% of supply goes unbilled; 2,000 installed so far against a 40,000-meter annual target.
V2XThe Australian Renewable Energy Agency Funds A$4.1M JET Charge V2G TrialARENA backs JET Charge's REVS2 project to put up to 130 bidirectional-charging EVs in the ACT Government fleet through June 2029, a A$5.35M trial.
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