As India learns to live with COVID, tech startups offer hygiene, sanitation solutions
Regularly disinfecting objects that one uses continuously, such as phones, earphones, watches and other accessories, isn't easy. Now an ecommerce vendor named The Messy Corner is marketing a device that uses ultra-violet light for sterilisation.
The ‘UV Care Sterilizer’, which resembles a sizable pencil box of sorts, is merely about big enough to carry a phone of 6.5 inch screen size.
To utilize it, plug in the USB type C device, open the lid, devote your phone, watch, ring and other small accessories, close it and press the energy button. In 3 minutes, the device beeps to notify you that the sterilisation process is complete.
It is also said to double up as a radio charger.
UV Care Sterilizer is designed for Rs 3,999 on ecommerce site The Messy Corner.
Large-scale cleaning machines are in great demand during the pandemic, particularly in offices, hospitals, malls and places where hundreds of folks gather. There are concerns about cough droplets lingering in air for several minutes and enclosed spaces being breeding grounds for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that triggers COVID-19. Indian startup Cleantech seeks to address this problem with its Magneto Central AIR CLEANSER (MCAC).
An ISO certified air cleaning machine, MCAC uses filterless magnetic air purification and ultraviolet technology, and claims to get rid of 90 % of 90-percent of SARS-CoV-2 viruses, aside from bacteria and pollutants from the air in enclosed spaces.
Cleantech boasts of a sizable clientele including Apple, Google, BMW, Uber, Taj Group of hotels, Leela hotels, PGI Chandigarh hospital, Jindal Steel Power, Airbus and Nokia.
Similarly catering to needs which may have appear since COVID-19 took over the world, video analytics startup Wobot is using surveillance technology to see CCTV footage and detect, for instance, if employees are deviating from established standard operating procedures such as for example sanitising hands before entering a workplace.
Using machine learning, the technology analyses gigabytes of video to understand repeating patterns and for that reason flag anomalies.
Wobot claims IRCTC, Barista and Cultfit as clients.
The company says the technology is being used to “monitor” whether kitchen staff are employing hairnets while cooking, regularly washing their hands, using gloves while packaging foodstuff, wearing personal protective equipment or uniforms as prescribed and so on.
The surveillance tech also tells on staff if the floors are unclean, the quality of raw material procured is poor, if there's been pilferage, and even if they are interacting with guests in line with the SOPs.
Source: www.deccanchronicle.com
