Rithema, technology and innovation for the sustainability of homes and cities

The startup that develops sustainable projects with a high innovative content, optimizes the use of natural resources and promotes the ecological transition.

Develop projects to improve the sustainability of daily life and bring innovative solutions into homes and cities, inserting green technologies in traditional processes so as to facilitate the birth of smart home And smart cities.This is what the team at Rithema, made up of engineers and designers with skills multidisciplinary, whose objective is to optimize the use of natural resources and make industrial processes more efficient thanks to the use of green technology.

Rithema was born from an idea of Alfonso Coppola and in 2019 it became a company based in Salerno.His name is the acronym of the names of some of the scientists who inspired his work, from Archimedes to Hertz, from Einstein to Tesla.A name that explains the soul of the startup.

Today Rithema is present in many innovation fairs and has a business started on the market with several patents registered, certified designs and research and development contracts.It is an innovative reality that has received several prizes, has consolidated itself thanks to some rounds of investments and has also entered the ecosystem of LifeGate Way, the subsidiary of the LifeGate group dedicated to sustainable startups.

The projects developed for the smart home

Rithema revolutionizes the approach to the product or its functioning, opening up to a paradigm shift which goes well with the energy transition necessary and currently underway and effectively renewing daily activities as we are used to knowing them.Below are some concrete examples.

WaterSave it is an innovative shower that allows you to save water and energy.In fact, the device accumulates the resource that is not used in a tank while it waits for thewater heats up and then put it back into circulation during mixing.Furthermore, it provides an output flow at a digitally chosen temperature, finally calculating the liters of water used.Rithema has calculated that by leaving the water running while waiting for the desired temperature, up to 30 liters can be wasted for each shower.This innovation also allows a 30 percent energy savings.The startup is also collaborating with a group of experts to find natural soaps that allow shower waste water to be reused to wet plants.

A similar idea is the one behind the kitchen hood Komposta, designed to transform food waste into compost using the heat from the hob – usually dissipated without being used.The transformation occurs through the thermoventilation of the hood itself and the rotation of the internal perforated container into which the food waste is inserted.In this way the shipping costs of the organic fraction and the waste tax, also avoiding the relative methane production.

Solutions for a smart city

From the point of view of technological applications in public life, Rithema has created some solutions that go in the direction of the smart city.

E-Round for example it is a road roundabout capable of convert four natural sources into electrical energy:the force of the wind, the force of the sun, the movement of vehicles and the rain.Thanks to these conversions, it is able to produce and accumulate electrical energy forstreet lighting. Furthermore, part of the accumulated energy is used for the lighting of a bicycle path and forpower supply to irrigation pumps.The conversion of sunlight into electrical energy occurs thanks to the photovoltaic panels present on one of the E-Round rings, while the mechanical conversion occurs thanks to the impulse generated by the passage of vehicles on special strips inserted into the road surface.

Hera instead it is a modular metal road surface experimental capable of reducing pollution in urban centers by 60 percent, noise pollution by 70 percent and asphalt maintenance by 98 percent.It is totally made with recycled materials and is adaptable to any type of road.It does not accumulate water on the surface thanks to the grids and draining edges and when temperatures drop below zero it activates a heating system to dissolve snow or ice.It controls and limits the speed of vehicles thanks to communication with a small control unit mounted on board.

The environment in which Rithema moves

Rithema's work takes place in different fields, from design at the electronic design, also thanks to the network of partners with which it collaborates and which helps it in this process.Its mission is to develop and design innovative domestic and human-scale solutions, which if implemented allow optimize the use of natural resources.

The startup offers companies a innovation laboratory that allows you to create prototypes of products up to a very high level of precision and allows companies to obtain new projects to be patented in a short time and proceed directly to the sale of the finished and tested product, thus expanding its market and increasing its own technological value.

All these innovations – some simpler, others more complex to implement – ​​represent a stimulus for creating a more sustainable world.We hope to find some of Rithema's solutions on our way soon.