Aircraft Sanitisation Verification Service (ASVS)

2019冠状病毒病大流行已导致全球大多数机队停飞。随着大流行得到控制，旅行再次成为可能，最大限度地提高安全性将是至关重要的。病毒颗粒，例如COVID-19，可在空气中保持数小时的传染性，在表面上可保持数天，具体取决于表面的类型和环境条件。在这种情况下，未来航空公司将更加重视保持高标准的消毒，以防止进一步传播，并为乘客提供必要的保障。为了将旅行成本保持在合理的水平，重要的是要确保消毒过程有效，同时不增加飞机的“停机时间”。为了快速消毒整个飞机内部，一种被称为“雾化”的技术（即向空气中喷洒一层薄薄的消毒剂雾，然后覆盖在飞机表面）被认为是未来的关键技术。这样做的一个大问题是确保覆盖范围是全面的。本项目解决了这一挑战。这个为期五个月的项目将产生两项关键产出。新型的、廉价的、纸质的（可生物降解的）贴片传感器，可以在消毒前分布在飞机内部的一系列表面上，并且会改变颜色以显示已达到正确的消毒水平。贴片传感器将使用染料，当它们接触到用于清洁飞机的消毒剂时，染料会改变颜色。该项目的第二个方面将是开发一种读卡器，最初基于智能手机平台，可以测量颜色，从而确定消毒的数量。这可以显示在屏幕上，并发送到一个中心位置，该中心将记录安装在飞机上的所有传感器的结果。该项目将由Intercede Ventures Ltd提供，该公司由航空业前高级管理人员组成。与一家英国传感器制造商、一所大学、一家国际化学品分销商和合作伙伴航空公司合作，他们将在2020年底推出该产品。就乘客安全而言，该项目将产生巨大影响。此外，随着世界经济开始缓慢复苏，它还将帮助航空公司和旅游业从COVID-19危机中恢复过来，让航空乘客对航空旅行的安全产生急需的信心。将原项目延长三个月，将加强Intercede Ventures Ltd在2020年底之前将该产品推向市场的准备工作，并扩大市场机会。要做到这一点，需要确保传感器对“雾化”中使用的所有消毒剂都有反应，并且传感器读取器（通过移动电话平台操作）对于没有多少技术或IT技能的人来说很容易使用。此外，生产大量传感器的制造过程将与制造合作伙伴一起规划。最后，将进行进一步的试验，以验证系统的运行，并为潜在客户提供性能的证据。项目的总体影响保持不变，即确保乘客安全和支持航空公司从COVID-19危机中恢复过来，但这三个月的延期将使Intercede Ventures能够更快地渗透到更大的市场，既支持公司发展，又提高对社会和经济的影响水平。

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the grounding of the majority of the world's fleet of aircraft. As the pandemic is brought under control and travel is again possible, maximising safety will be paramount. Virus particles, e.g. COVID-19, can remain infectious in the air for hours and on surfaces up to days depending on the type of surface and the environmental conditions. In this context, in the future, airlines will place much greater importance on maintaining high standards of disinfection to prevent further dissemination and giving necessary reassurance to passengers. To keep travel costs at a reasonable level, it will be important to ensure that a disinfection process has been effective without increasing the "down time" of the aircraft. For rapidly disinfecting the whole of an aircraft interior, a technique known as "fogging" (i.e. spaying a thin mist of disinfectant in to the air, which then coats surfaces) is seen as critical for the future. The big issue with this is ensuring that the coverage is comprehensive. This project addresses this challenge.This five-month project will produce two key outputs. Novel, inexpensive, paper-based (biodegradable) patch sensors that can be distributed on a range of surfaces inside an aircraft before disinfection and that will change colour to show that the correct level of disinfection has been achieved. The patch sensors will use dyes that will change colour when they come in contact with the disinfectant used to clean the plane. The second aspect of the project will be the development of a reader, initially based on a smart phone platform, that can measure the colour and consequently determine the amount of disinfection. This can be displayed on the screen and sent to a central location that will record the results from all the sensors placed on that plane.The project will be delivered by Intercede Ventures Ltd, which comprises a team of former senior managers with the airline industry. Working with a UK-based sensor manufacture, a university, an international chemical distributor and partner airlines they will launch the product by the end of 2020\.The impact of the project will be huge in terms of passenger safety. In addition, it will help the airline and tourism industries recover from the COVID-19 crisis by giving airline passengers much needed confidence in the safety of air travel, as the world economy slowly starts to recover.A three month extension to the original project will enhance Intercede Ventures Ltd preparedness for marketing of this product by the end of 2020 and expand the market opportunities. This will be done by ensuring that the sensors respond to all disinfectants used in "fogging" and that the sensor reader, which operates from a mobile phone platform, is easy to use for people with few technical or IT skills. In addition, the manufacturing process for producing large numbers of the sensors will be planned with a manufacturing partner. Finally, further trials will take place to verify system operation and to provide evidence of the performance for potential customers. The overall impact of project remains the same, i.e. to ensure passenger safety and to support airlines to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, but this three month extension will allow Intercede Ventures to more rapidly penetrate a larger market, to both support company development and increase the level of impact on society and the economy.