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  • Perovskia Solar receives investment of 2.4 million dollars

    Perovskia Solar receives investment of 2.4 million dollars

    Perovskia Solar AG has received fresh capital in the amount of 2.4 million dollars. The spin-off of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology(Empa), which was founded in 2021, announced that it is now welcoming Basel-based Kickfund, London-based venture capitalist D&FG Elements and a global coalition of business angels led by Nils Hagander and Beda Rohner as investors in addition to existing investors Empa, Venture Kick and Johannes Suter from Zurich. Hagander joins Perovskia’s Board of Directors.

    Perovskia offers digitally printed and flexibly customizable solar cells to OEMs. “Our energy harvesting technology has been developed at Empa for over six years and enables us to bring Perovskia Solar to the market with a finished product that powers next-generation devices for industrial and consumer use,” founder and CTO Tobias Meyer is quoted as saying. The cleantech start-up, founded in 2021, has already acquired “more than ten leading companies from the Internet of Things (IoT) industry” as customers.

    Perovskia’s vision is that the ultra-thin solar cells can be integrated into any device, for example in networked intelligent systems known as Smart City, Smart Grid, Smart Building and Industrial IoT. “We make it possible for solar cells to be designed around products and not products around solar cells,” reads a self-promotion by the award-winning start-up.

    This funding will allow Perovskia to “expand, innovate and grow”, according to another press release. “With a new website, modernized machines and talented new team members, we are more committed than ever to our mission: a solar cell on every device.”

  • Belimo integrates the platform for building data

    Belimo integrates the platform for building data

    The Facilio platform is intended to enable Belimo customers to use the Internet of Things (IoT) to collect real-time data on the processes in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems (HVAC systems) and to check the building performance, explains the HVAC specialist -Systems from the Zurich Oberland in the message . Facilio, which has its headquarters in New York, and Belimo have agreed on a corresponding cooperation, it says there. “The synergy between Belimo’s digital ecosystem and Facilio’s operating and maintenance platform uses available data to unlock the potential of networked buildings and address the new challenges,” Salvatore Cataldi, Global Strategic Building IoT Expert at Belimo, is quoted in the press release.

    The data collected are intended to serve property owners and property operators as a basis for implementing efficient sustainability measures, the communication further explains. “Facilio and Belimo will provide customers who are switching to an agile, data-supported operating model with a single, networked operating environment through which they can view and control their rooms and equipment in real time,” said Prabhu Ramachandran, CEO and founder of Facilio, quote there. Through the cooperation, the two partners also want to respond to the growing demand for solutions for efficient building operation.