Partners

Three companies and a research organisation

A temporary association led by Z Lab S.r.l.

Lead company

Z Lab S.r.l.

Engineering consultancy that brings aeronautical know-how to less advanced sectors, with 85 employees (78 graduates, 61 in Engineering). It specialises in RAMS analyses (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) and Verification & Validation, and its Acoustics Laboratory is ACCREDIA accredited (LAB no. 1416) under UNI CEI EN ISO/IEC 17025.

As lead partner of the temporary association, Z Lab ensures that all project phases run on time and meet their objectives, coordinates dissemination, provides electronics consultancy, contributes to control and monitoring electronics and validates experimental results.

Company

FD S.r.l.

ICT company active since 2012, based in San Giovanni in Fiore (CS), ISO 9001 certified. It designs and produces custom electronic boards in-house and integrates embedded AI, together with data organisation (knowledge graphs, RAG, semantic search) and AI agents.

In the project it designs and builds the IoT-based control and monitoring electronics of the panels and the control unit of the system.

www.fditaliasrl.it

Company

Vedlab s.n.c. di Vitale e Fazio

Rapid prototyping for architecture and design: models, prototypes, mechanical design, 3D scanning and modelling, reverse engineering and finished products, using additive manufacturing, CNC milling and laser cutting. Among the first companies in southern Italy to offer these services.

In the project it supports the prototyping of the panels and installs the mechanical parts.

www.vedlab.com

Research organisation

University of Calabria — DIMEG

Public university established in 1968. Its Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering (DIMEG) is a national and international reference for research and technology transfer; its Applied Physics group specialises in applied thermodynamics, heat transfer, energy conversion, numerical simulation and experimental analysis.

In the project DIMEG studies the state of the art of Peltier cells, simulates and optimises the panels in different applications, chooses the thermal insulation, carries out experimental studies and leads scientific dissemination.

https://dimeg.unical.it/

External consultants

NET S.c.a.r.l.

Manager of the "Environment and Natural Risks" Innovation Hub, connecting companies, universities and research centres (Crotone and Reggio Calabria).

CReAI — Centro Ricerche e Attività Industriali S.r.l.

Engineering company with over thirty years of experience in industrial research, FEM and CFD analyses, reverse engineering and industrialisation.

Eng. Alessandro Bonavita

Electronics engineer with over twenty years of experience; coordinates the technical activities on the Peltier cell management systems and multifunction panels.