This is made possible thanks to a dense network of relationships with many local, regional, national and international entities and establishing collaborations with stakeholders and policymakers.
The participation in regional and national technological clusters allows us to access information on technological trends, to increase the links with the other national players and to keep updated on project’s funding opportunities.
Giordano Controls promoted the birth and is currently a member of the management team of Rete Innovativa Regionale Veneto Clima ed Energia, a system composed of highly specialised firms operating in the thermo-mechanical sector and of public and private subjects operating in different sectors , able to develop a set of projects and initiatives relevant for the regional economy. RIR Veneto Clima ed Energia, partner of the CTNE (Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale Energia), aims at creating new systems, devices and components for the progress of the operating and technological innovation in the environmental, energetic and economic fields, compatible with the goals previously set.
Giordano Controls is developing the central embedded controller that coordinates the multisource demonstrator subsystems: air and geothermal heat pumps, thermal storage, and photovoltaic systems with batteries. The controller selects the most convenient source at any given time, communicates with the machines via standard protocols, and calculates performance indicators in real time, such as the heat pump efficiency and the self-consumption share. Rule-based logic remains the safety reference, and the architecture is prepared for the artificial intelligence strategies developed by the University of Verona.
Results achieved
By May 2026, the hardware and software architecture of the controller, the communication interfaces, and the supervision logics have been defined, and the first interoperability tests with the demonstrator subsystems have started. Validation on the actual plant at the Living Lab is planned for the final phase of the project. The architecture is open and modular: it can be reused in advanced HVAC systems, buildings with multiple energy sources, and energy communities.
Support granted to Giordano Controls
Eligible expenditure: €440,581.60 · Non-repayable grant: €74,061.12 · Soft loan: €70,276.00
Sustainable and innovative energy systems for renewable energy and green hydrogen
Project co-financed by the European Union under the PR Veneto ERDF 2021-2027, Priority 1, Action 1.1.1 “Strengthening research and innovation (in collaboration) between companies and research organisations”, Sub A.
SINERGHY is promoted by the Veneto Climate and Energy Regional Innovation Network, with Coverfil, the Confindustria Verona Consortium, as lead partner. Nine companies from Veneto, the University of Verona, the University of Padua and the CNR are working together on an integrated energy system that produces, stores and manages energy from renewable sources: green hydrogen, multi-source heat pumps with geothermal energy, next-generation photovoltaics, biological CO₂ capture, and solutions for building retrofitting. The technologies are integrated and tested at the Living Lab of the CNR Research Area in Padua.
Duration: 02.10.2024 – 30.04.2027
Total project value: €2,836,834.80 · Total non-repayable grant: €1,199,939.08 · Total soft loan: €395,715.40
Find out more: www.venetoclimaenergia.it · info@venetoclimaenergia.it
The project provides the heating and cooling sector with a solution based on IoT and Artificial Intelligence technologies, to propose innovative systems to the market that can bring about a major breakthrough in service and maintenance activities, product quality, the development of actions for significant technical improvement, with the possibility of proposing additional services and supporting in an advanced digital way the complete management of the proposal as a ‘service’ rather than as a ‘product’ (servitisation). The objective is the improvement of the quality of life through the application of digital technologies and automation from a human-centric perspective in a manner adaptive to the conditions in which the person operates. The project promotes environmental sustainability for air-conditioning solutions by enabling accessibility and user-friendliness of interfaces, self-activation, remote monitoring and maintenance.
The project saw the application of IoT technology and cyber-physical systems that enable connectivity and Cloud collection of system configuration data, operating data and usage of hybrid systems (boiler, heat pump) and traditional boilers in order to achieve a predictive and proactive maintenance system.
Duration: 01.03.2023 – 31.07.2024
Project expenditure: 200.000€
Granted support: 50.000€
In collaboration with the University of Verona - Department of Computer Science
For more info: https://www.innoveneto.org/2024/10/giordano-controls_caldaie/
Progetto finanziato con il Piano Sviluppo e Coesione Veneto – FSC 2021-2027 Stralcio (Delibera CIPESS 79/2021) – Area tematica 01 Ricerca e Innovazione – Settore 01.01 Ricerca Sviluppo
Giordano Controls is also a partner of the project «SAFE PLACE. Sistemi IoT per ambienti di vita salubri e sicuri», cofunded by Veneto in occasion of POR 2014-2020 Azione 1.1.4 (DGR 822/2020) aimed at improving functionality, usability and accessibility of all the known classes of devices to face the Covid-19 emergency and allow their integration in IoT based systems, thus realising modular solutions, able to synergistically and flexibly combine different technologies according to specific needs and circumstances.
Duration: 10.09.2020 – 30.12.2022.
Project expenditure: 2.999.480€
Allowed support: 1.973.033,26 €
For further insight: https://www.ict4ssl.com/it/projects/progetto-safe-place/
Giordano Controls is a partner of the project Global House Thermal & Electrical Energy Management (GHOTEM) for efficiency, lower emission and renewables», cofounded by Veneto in occasion of POR 2014-2020 Azione 1.1.4 (DGR 1139/2017), ended in april 2021 and aimed at promoting the acceleration of the technological innovation supporting the energetic transition, gathering important challenges related to the energy field , such as the massive usage of renewables, the technological development in the energy efficiency, the innovation for the convenient, zero-emissions heating and cooling, the development of batteries and efficient accumulation systems and the integration of the control and management in view of smart grids.
Duration: 07.11.2017 – 30.10.2020 (extended to 30/04/2021).
Project expenditure: € 5.781.837,00
Allowed support: € 2.907.181,80
For further insight: https://www.venetoclimaenergia.it/ghotem-2/
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