Smart City & Utility Industry News

Athens is deploying 2,000 automated smart traffic cameras to fine speeding and red-light violations following 13 road fatalities in June.

Kalamazoo, Michigan deploys 26 Bigbelly smart waste units to replace 58 conventional bins, using fill-level sensors to cut collection trips.

The Municipality of Paralimni-Deryneia in Cyprus deploys 15 AI fire detection stations to identify smoke and fire across a 15-kilometer radius.

Porto Alegre and Sebrae RS open applications to accelerate 10 smart public lighting startups developing NB-IoT and 5G infrastructure solutions.

IES unveils a 3D digital twin of 3,000 Dublin city-centre buildings to model energy use, emissions, and retrofit scenarios for local businesses.

Richmond is modernizing 490 traffic signals with a centralized control system to speed up emergency response and prioritize transit buses.

Roswell, Georgia, installs emergency preemption technology across 107 traffic signals to reduce emergency response times by up to 20%.

CAISO pilots OATI's generative AI tool to improve outage management, marking the first use of the technology by a U.S. power grid operator.

Cyprus launches a €35 million nationwide smart city platform to deploy smart lighting, parking, and waste management across municipalities.

GE Vernova acquires French AI software firm Alteia SAS to expand its GridOS platform with computer vision analytics for utility inspections.