IIT Kanpur develops UV sanitizing device ‘SHUDH’ to disinfect room in 15 mins

IIT Kanpur develops UV sanitizing device ‘SHUDH’ to disinfect room in 15 mins

  • A team of engineers at IIT Kanpur has developed an Ultraviolet (UV) sanitizing product named SHUDH, which is capable to disinfect a 10 sqft room in about 15 minutes.
  • SHUDH stands for Smartphone operated Handy Ultraviolet Disinfection Helper.
  • It has been jointly developed by J. Ramkumar, Amandeep Singh and Shivam Sachan.
  • SHUDH has six UV lights of 15 Watts each that can be individually monitored from a distance and can be rotated up to 360 degrees. Users can use the number of lights based upon the size of the room.
  • Simply by installing an Android application, user can remotely control the on-off, speed and location of the product using the available smartphone. It can also run with Bluetooth technology.
  • The device will be useful for disinfecting places like hospitals, hotel, malls, offices, schools, etc. to prevent infection, without the need to touch the device.

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