As India learns to live with COVID, tech startups offer hygiene, sanitation solutions

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Featured here: A device that sterilises small objects, an air cleaning system and a surveillance tool to check on compliance with hygiene SOPs

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 large 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, put in your phone, watch, ring and other small accessories, close it and press the energy button. In 3 minutes, these devices beeps to notify you that the sterilisation process is complete.

It is also thought 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 through the pandemic, particularly in offices, hospitals, malls and places where hundreds of men and women gather. There are concerns about cough droplets lingering in air for a few 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 Cleaner (MCAC).

An ISO certified air cleaning machine, MCAC uses filterless magnetic air purification and ultraviolet technology, and claims to eradicate 90 % of 90-percent of SARS-CoV-2 viruses, aside from bacteria and pollutants from the air in enclosed spaces.

Cleantech boasts of a big clientele including Apple, Google, BMW, Uber, Taj Band of hotels, Leela hotels, PGI Chandigarh hospital, Jindal Steel Power, Airbus and Nokia.

Similarly catering to needs which may have come up since COVID-19 overran the world, video analytics startup Wobot is using surveillance technology to view CCTV footage and detect, for example, 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 learn 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 approved and so on.

The surveillance tech also tells on staff if the floors are unclean, the caliber of raw material procured is poor, if there has been pilferage, and even whether they are getting together with guests in line with the SOPs.
Source: https://www.deccanchronicle.com

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