DRDO develops contactless sanitizer to disinfect phones, currency notes

Team Udayavani, May 12, 2020, 11:31 AM IST

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a contact-less sanitizer that can be used to disinfect currency notes, laptops, cell phones, etc.

The Hyderabad-based Research Centre Imarat (RCI), a premiere laboratory under the DRDO developed the UVC sanitation cabinet that has been named Defence Research Ultraviolet Sanitizer or DRUVS

The proximity sensor switches, clubbed with drawer opening and closing mechanism, makes its operation automatic and contactless. It provides 360 degree exposure of UVC to the objects placed inside the cabinet. Once the sanitization is done, the system goes in sleep mode, hence the operator need not wait or stand near the device.

It has also developed an automated UVC currency sanitizing device called Notesclean. Bundles of currency notes can be sanitized using DRUVS. Loose currency notes can be placed at the input slot of the device. It picks the notes one by one and makes them pass through a series of UVC lamps for complete disinfection.