📰👀 Here are the news from the #smartcities 🏙️ industry that have caught our attention this week in #Kurrantly 🚀 (for more kurrant.com)
🏙️💡 Four French municipalities launched a €35.5 million, 12-year Smart City project focusing on renewing public lighting, enhancing mobility, and improving energy performance in public buildings.
📈 Four Data, a French IoT start-up, acquired customer portfolios of Birdz and SilentSoft SA, expanding its range of sensor solutions and bolstering its international expansion.
💧🔄 GRUNDFOS acquired Metasphere , combining telemetry, IoT, weather data, and analytics to reduce water system failures and prevent sewer network overflows.
🌏💡 QIC and Intellihub Group strengthened their market positions in Australia and New Zealand through strategic acquisitions in the energy smart metering sector.
🔌 Moldova kicked off a smart meter pilot program, targeting intelligent energy consumption and new policies based on collected data, with an eventual goal of nationwide smart metering.