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.