History
Founded in the year 2000 by the business man/ manager Dr A.Sutti, Innova Technology Solutions S.p.A. was born from the idea of setting up a company that would have focused its interest in technologies able to gain competitive profits and to reach the leadership in the international markets. In the beginning, Innova was focused on the study of security systems able to detect intrusions in external areas and, on the same time, the study of sensing systems through the utilization of 3D laser scanner. The last one it's a unique technology in its kind and Innova is a world leader, see for example the Venice historical centre sensing project.
Since 2005 Innova is active in the exploitation of solar energy for the generation of distributed electrical and thermal energy through innovative systems with low or zero environmental impact. The company is based in Chieti (F&A + Operations) and Cosenza (research and development). The company's team includes the founder Dr. A. Sutti, Eng. PL Zappacosta (co-founder and former CEO of Logitech) through the FARO Ventures investment holding whose managing director is Dr. G. Farchione, then Dr. F. Guidetti and Dr. F. Di Luzio, member of SOMEA S.p.A., a company investing in real estate and building sectors since 1976.
After about 5 years of applied research and following agreements with strategic suppliers, Innova presented TRINUM on the 8th of September 2010. Trinum is a new product, which generates electricity (1kWe) and thermal energy (3 kWt) and is made up a dish of parabolic shape of about 10 m², that tracks the sun and reflects the rays concentrating them on the head of a Stirling engine. Such engine is produced and realized by the dutch Microgen Engine Corporation and adapted by Innova for solar applications and for which Innova has the exclusive. Innova has a shareholding in Microgen.