Electricity generation, engineering and operation of renewable energy plants. The activities set out in the company’s articles are carried out both on our own account and for third parties.
SOLARMA generates solar electricity through its photovoltaic plant in Peveragno and feeds it into the grid. The activity includes managing the contracts relating to the sale of the energy and the obligations towards the distribution operator and the national energy services agency.
The company’s articles also provide for trading in electricity and heat produced from renewable sources — from company-owned plants, plants under its management or third-party plants — and for dealing in rights, contracts and certificates representing electricity.
The company handles architectural design — preliminary, detailed and executive — as well as works supervision and testing, in civil and industrial construction, plant engineering and environmental protection.
Our approach is that of an owner-operator: realistic sizing, attention to operating costs and verification of yield assumptions before they become contractual commitments.
The qualifications sit within the partnership itself: Gianpaolo Macario is an engineer on the register of the Province of Turin, and Michela Abellonio an architect on the register of the Province of Cuneo. The building-services side and the architectural side each have their own qualified professional. Services reserved to registered professionals under Italian law are provided by the partners in their own name, as the articles of association require. Registration details →
Alongside plant design, SOLARMA brings a competence uncommon in a company of this kind: more than thirty years of experience designing and integrating embedded systems for industry and automotive, now spanning the whole chain: hardware, firmware, data-processing algorithms and infrastructure. It is the competence we use to keep our own plant under remote supervision, and it is available to anyone with similar needs.
Mixed-signal, battery-powered boards designed in KiCad, from schematic through assembly and bring-up. Standby consumption in the microampere range, and debugging on real hardware with oscilloscopes, logic analysers and power profilers.
Embedded C firmware for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers on Zephyr RTOS: peripheral drivers written from scratch, data streaming over Bluetooth Low Energy, and signed over-the-air updates (MCUboot) for devices in the field.
Sensor nodes and firmware on microcontrollers (Arduino, ESP32), BLE and BLE Mesh communication, UART, I²C and SPI, to instrument existing machinery and plant.
Real-time algorithms running directly on the microcontroller, for example to derive physiological parameters from wearable sensors, plus machine learning, computer vision and predictive models built in Python (PyTorch).
Building and optimising embedded Linux distributions with Yocto, porting to bespoke hardware, board support packages and system startup.
Sensors, gateways and field protocols (MQTT) to collect a plant’s data and cut down on site visits. It is the technology we apply to our own plant to keep operating costs down.
Collecting, storing and presenting plant data: containerised services (Docker, Kubernetes) on local infrastructure or in the cloud (AWS, Azure).
Continuous integration and delivery (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), automated firmware build, flashing and release pipelines, configuration management with Git and issue tracking: introduced and brought into routine use in R&D teams.
Courses and consultancy on embedded Linux and IoT technologies for companies operating in non-competing industries.
Analysis and support in defining the process and the steps required to ensure compliance with the ISO 26262 and IEC 61511 functional safety standards, the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Radio Equipment Directive, for embedded systems in the automotive and manufacturing sectors.
Sectors in which this experience was gained: automotive and in-vehicle infotainment, industrial machinery, robotics, telecommunications, energy and wearable devices.
Concrete examples of completed work, from the monitoring of our own photovoltaic plant to infrastructure and firmware for embedded systems.
A software system that collects production data and system logs from inverters of different makes and stores them in a private cloud, where they are analysed to follow the energy produced and to enable predictive maintenance of the plant.
Automated installation and configuration, described entirely as code, of high-availability Kubernetes clusters on edge devices with Intel and ARM architectures.
Setup and maintenance of locally run inference systems and agents built on open-weight large language models, so that the data being processed never leaves the user’s own infrastructure.
A development container for system builds and application development with Zephyr, targeting Nordic and STM32 platforms: the same environment on the developer’s machine and in the integration pipeline.
An automated build pipeline for firmware on custom hardware based on Espressif (ESP32) and Nordic (Arduino Nicla Sense ME) SoCs, producing reproducible builds on every change.
Board support packages and customised system images for embedded systems, with repeatable and traceable builds.
Alongside its work in energy, the company handles architectural projects in civil and industrial construction: new buildings, refurbishment and the renovation of existing ones, from the first design proposal through to supervision of the works on site.
Architectural work is led by Michela Abellonio, an architect on the register of the Province of Cuneo. Registration details →
Having both the architectural and the building-services competence in house changes how a project is approached: panels, storage and plant are not bolted onto a building that has already been drawn, but enter the design while decisions about form and orientation are still open.
A selection of the practice’s work.
Two lines of description: use, floor area, nature of the work and outcome.
Two lines of description: use, floor area, nature of the work and outcome.
Two lines of description: use, floor area, nature of the work and outcome.
The company builds and installs plants and equipment for the production of energy from renewable sources, using technologies available on the market and in particular photovoltaic systems producing electricity and heat.
This work can be carried out on our own account or for third parties, whether public or private, in Italy and abroad.
Maintenance, operation and management of plants are part of our daily work on our own installation and are offered to third parties as well. A plant that is followed continuously produces more and degrades more slowly than one left to itself.
The service can be structured as a continuing contract or as a one-off inspection, depending on the size of the plant and the owner’s needs.
Scope of activity. All the activities listed are carried out within the limits of, and in compliance with, the rules governing them, both on our own account and on behalf of third parties, whether public or private. Activities reserved to regulated professions are expressly excluded from the company’s objects.
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