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Equans Infra & Mobility, the Dutch entity holding electric vehicle charging concessions owned by energy services group Equans, has been sold to a joint vehicle controlled by DigitalBridge Group (NYSE: DBRG) and Aberdeen Investments. The...
Two Seoul districts completed or broke ground on smart pole deployments in May 2026, combining CCTV surveillance, LED emergency alert systems, and public Wi-Fi into unified street infrastructure designed to reduce crime blind spots and improve...
Bexar County officially launched its $21 million NextGen Flood Warning System on May 19, 2026, replacing a decade-old beacon-based infrastructure with a network of sensors, automated road gates, and predictive modeling software designed to compress...
Harris County is moving forward with a sensor-based roadway flood warning network funded by a $2 million federal grant awarded in 2022, with engineering work now underway and pilot installations targeting the region’s most vulnerable...
Within a single week in May 2026, the city councils of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Bandera, Texas voted to terminate contracts with two of the most widely deployed AI-powered public safety platforms in the United States. One city has a population...
The Western Cape Department of Infrastructure in South Africa has adopted Bentley Systems‘ AI-powered Blyncsy platform to monitor roughly 5,000 kilometres of strategic provincial roads, making the province the first jurisdiction on the African...
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has become the first government entity in the UAE to adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork, integrating agentic AI directly into employee workflows across the organisation. The move, announced on May 20,...
Pattaya City is deploying an AI-powered intelligent water management system designed to predict, monitor, and communicate flood risks in real time, with a first operational phase expected by July 2026 and a full 100-point sensor network in place by...
Ofwat, the economic regulator of water and wastewater services in England and Wales, has announced the 19 winners of the sixth Water Breakthrough Challenge, awarding a combined £58 million to projects that range from fungal water filtration and...
Three municipalities in Germany’s Main-Kinzig district have formalised a joint smart city initiative to address a problem that plays out in dense residential neighbourhoods across the country: illegally parked vehicles that block intersections...
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