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Xcel Energy Deploys AI Cameras to Detect Wildfires in Minnesota

Oct 14, 2025

Xcel Energy is rolling out artificial intelligence–driven wildfire detection cameras from Pano AI in Minnesota, aiming to install 38 camera systems in high-risk zones near its power lines. Two units have already been installed in Mankato and Clear...

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Zaragoza to Deploy AI-Based Sensor Network in €14M Resilience Project

Oct 14, 2025

The city of Zaragoza is launching a municipal-wide environmental risk management scheme that combines a sensor network across ravines and urban areas with an artificial intelligence platform to process real-time data. The initiative is backed by a...

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Florida DOT Deploys AI-Driven Traffic System at 2,000 Intersections

Oct 14, 2025

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District Five has rolled out a region-wide, real-time traffic management platform built in partnership with Flow Labs. The system now spans roughly 2,000 intersections in the Orlando metropolitan...

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Western Australian Government Secures $73.7M Contract for Statewide Digital Twin Platform

Oct 14, 2025

The Western Australian government has awarded a A$73.7 million contract to Jacobs Solutions to build the core spatial digital twin platform underpinning the state’s new Spatial WA initiative. The platform will allow government agencies to...

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ZIV and Itron Win Major Smart Meter Contract in Greece

Oct 14, 2025

Basque-based ZIV has secured its largest-ever contract through a consortium with Itron, clinching an agreement with Greece’s HEDNO (Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator). The deal calls for the deployment of nearly one million smart...

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Smart Water Meters to Be Rolled Out Across Grand Narbonne

Oct 1, 2025

The Grand Narbonne region has entered a ten-year partnership with Veolia and its subsidiary Birdz, along with the energy and digital syndicate Syaden and its mixed-economy company Siti11, to deploy a network of smart water meters. Beginning in 2026,...

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Vodafone España to Digitalize Water Cycle in Córdoba Province

Sep 30, 2025

Vodafone España has been awarded a 12-year contract worth €3.1 million by the Diputación de Córdoba, through its water utility EMPROACSA, to digitalize the complete water cycle in the eastern part of the province. The project will cover 23,600...

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Milton Keynes Upgrades Traffic Signals with TRL’s SCOOT-Powered UTC System

Sep 22, 2025

Milton Keynes City Council has approved the deployment of TRL Software’s Urban Traffic Control (UTC) system, powered by the SCOOT (Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique) technology, across its signal-controlled junctions. The project forms...

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SenSen Secures €1.2M in Contracts to Expand AI Urban Solutions

Sep 16, 2025

SenSen Networks, an Australian provider of live awareness AI for cities, has won new contracts totaling about €1.2 million across Singapore, the USA and Australia in fiscal 2026 to date, all expected to be delivered within the current fiscal...

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Santa Barbara County Expands Community Air Quality Monitoring

Sep 16, 2025

The Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) is launching a program to install about 150 PurpleAir air quality sensors at schools, government buildings, and nonprofit facilities across the county. The initiative, approved in June...