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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

UVC againt COVID19

One-line solution summary:

Desinfect public bus against COVID19 by using ultraviolet light tunnel

Pitch your solution.

One way to spread COVID19 is contact with infected surfaces. The world is characterized by needs for dislocation from residential to commercial areas. On transport form home to work, work-people stop to follow all WHO, specially social distancing and reduce to touch shared objects. But in some time they need to go work to guarantee your livelihood.

Many of that transports can be disinfected by washing, but these washing don’t cover unusual, hard reach places and many of that use tissue seat on it, that can’t be washed efficiently.

Is proposed the use of Ultraviolet light (UVC) for desinfect public bus and guarantee that it come efectivelly desinfected before next use, becouse it can desinfect areas/places that conventional washing can't do.

if this technology be used globally it will guarantee that people can't be afraid to use public bus, becouse it is desinfected afeciently.

What specific problem are you solving?

One way to spread COVID19 is contact with infected surfaces. The world is characterized by needs for dislocation from residential to commercial areas. On transport form home to work, work-people stop to follow all WHO, specially social distancing and reduce to touch shared objects. But in some time they need to go work to guarantee your livelihood.

Many of that transports can be disinfected by washing, but these washing don’t cover unusual, hard reach places and many of that use tissue seat on it, that can’t be washed efficiently.

For that, on these discribed surface can keeps COVID19 virus after washing be completed. it exposes people who will use it.

What is your solution?

The proposed technology is the use of a tunnel with UltraViolet Light (UVC) for disinfect public bus against COVID19. It would be built to have space for one bus entirely and that can be closed on the tunnel that would be turned on a UVC light for some time. After that time, any bus or other transport there would be free for any COVID19 virus and will be able to transport people safely.

For disinfection should be scaled dose of UVC for act in one surface for disinfect it completely. On it should be used isolation from outside. It means that when the light is on any lighting can’t come outside tunnel. This isolation should be used too for amplify and direct UVC lighting inside to bus is being disinfected. The lighting can’t come outside because two factors: (1) – it is dangerous for human skin and eye, and (2) to guarantee effective use of energy (reduce waste and maximize efficiency). Because the UVC is dangerous for people it would come with sensor for detect people presence inside tunnel, and if it detect it don’t turn on light.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

One way to spread COVID19 is contact with infected surfaces. The world is characterized by needs for dislocation from residential to commercial areas. On transport form home to work, work-people stop to follow all WHO, specially social distancing and reduce to touch shared objects. But in some time they need to go work to guarantee your livelihood. The technology aims to guarantee that work-people that needs to take bus will use it after be cleaned effectively, including unusual, hard reach places or tissue seat. For that if we guarantee that all people on the bus aren’t covid19, we guarantee that any of them will get it on bus, and if someone was inside bus with it, only limited number of people will get exposed.

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge.

One way to spread COVID19 is contact with infected surfaces. The world is characterized by needs for dislocation from residential to commercial areas. Transportations is needs everyday for much people, and about it is one of the best way to spread COVID19. Many of that transports can be disinfected by washing, but these washing don’t cover unusual, hard reach places and many of that use tissue seat on it, that can’t be washed efficiently. Is proposed a tunnel that can disinfect all areas including unusual and hard reach places by using a UV ligh that will cover all areas.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Maputo, Mozambique

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

Jhone Gabriel Ernesto