The impact is great because it will enable medium and large companies to provide safe environments for employees through monitoring and air purification inside closed environments, such as offices. By sending information about air quality in real time, it is possible to identify compounds in the particles. Once abnormalities are identified in the monitored environment, the system automatically activates the purification functionality using UV light. We understand that the solution has a way to go before we can prove the effectiveness and safety of UV light as the main method for eliminating COVID-19 in environments.
The fact about the contamination of COVID-19 by particles passed through the contaminated transmitters, motivated the team to select the challenge in order to create a solution that allows the monitoring and purification of the air for control and cleaning of the environments.
As a basis for development, the materials made available by NASA were used, with articles on Life
- Support Systems - Sustaining human beings beyond the earth; https://www.nasa.gov/content/life-support-systems
- Cleaning or not in space: improving support for life on the ISS and for exploring deep space; https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/long_duration_sorbent_testbed/
- Air purification - What was done on the ISS.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/advasc.html
Searches on the web used were materials related to tests and studies on solutions for monitoring and air purification. The use of technology for the development of identifiers and means of hygiene, provides the creation of a device based on the pillars (base) which are the agility of the information and the assertiveness of the results.
- Israeli researcher creates breathalyzer that detects new coronavirus in just 1 minute;
- Coronavirus: Ultraviolet radiation is a new weapon for disinfection
https://veja.abril.com.br/saude/coronavirus-radiacao-e-nova-arma-para-desinfeccao/