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Alexandria
- Country
- Egypt
- Population
- 5.8M
- Projects
- 4
- Last verified
- 6 August 2026
- In the atlas since
- 2026-08-06
Alexandria's instruments are owned above the city and they arrive in the wrong order. A German-built control room has supervised the western grid since well before the 300,000 smart meters that would tell it where the power actually goes — 5,000 of them were in by June 2026 — and the water company opened a SCADA centre five months after announcing the loss figures it credits to new pipes rather than to sensors. The four sea-level gauges that make this the only Egyptian city reporting into the world monitoring network belong to a national research institute, and two of the four have gone silent. What the governorate does own is the response: in May 2024 Alexandria became the first Tsunami Ready community in Egypt and in Africa — a chain that ends in a human decision, while the seawalls going up against a rising Mediterranean carry no instruments at all.
All 4 projects in Alexandria
On a time axis, by the year each one started — 2018 to 2025. Pick a dot to read what it was.
No start date on record: Alexandria's Container Terminals: CATOS and the Camera Gates
All 4 projects in Alexandria, as a list
✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.
Compare with other cities
- 🇯🇵 Osaka: Tsunami-Alert Automatic Tide Gate Closure The two ends of coastal instrumentation: Osaka's gates close themselves on a warning, Alexandria's gauges report to people who then decide.
- 🇵🇭 Manila: EFCOS: Metro Manila's Flood Telemetry and Floodway Gates Working gauges in cities where the defences around them are the contested part, not the instruments.
- 🇰🇷 Busan: Busan New Port West Container Terminal Phase 2-5 The reference case at the other end: full automation with a documented labour agreement, against gate OCR and a terminal database.
- 🇩🇰 Copenhagen: Copenhagen Bathing Water Forecast & Overflow Warning System Both turn coastal measurement into a public warning and stop there — the reading informs, it does not actuate.
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- 🇬🇭 Accra: ECG Smart Prepaid Metering in Greater Accra West and North African utility metering programmes whose published progress is the vendor's or the ministry's, never an auditor's.
- 🇹🇷 Istanbul: ISKI Centralized SCADA Water Balancing Strategy The same instrument a continent apart: SCADA and district metering against water loss, with Istanbul's figures the longer series.
- 🇲🇦 Casablanca: Casablanca Real-Time Water Network Monitoring (Aquadvanced) North African water utilities that instrumented the network and report the gains themselves.
- 🇮🇳 Mumbai: Mumbai Water Distribution Improvement Programme Both attribute loss reduction to works rather than to the control room — the honest version of a SCADA story.
- 🇦🇴 Luanda: DP World Luanda: Cloud Terminal Operating System at the Multipurpose Terminal Two African terminal operating systems bought in the same window, neither publishing a throughput figure that a reader could check.
- 🇨🇮 Abidjan: Port of Abidjan Community System (PCS) Terminal software against a state community window — the two halves of African port digitisation, rarely in the same place.
- 🇮🇳 Kolkata: CESC Advanced Metering Infrastructure & Smart Meter Pilot (Kolkata) Automation reaches the control room years before the meter: Alexandria had 5,000 of 300,000 fitted when the centre opened.
- 🇦🇴 Luanda: ENDE Prepaid Electricity Meters in Luanda Two African metering rollouts at opposite ends: Luanda counts tokens without a return channel, Alexandria is wiring a real one.
Official strategy and sources
↗ Alexandria GovernorateThe organization driving the city's smart-city work.