Ultraviolet Sensors to Enable and Enhance Non Contact germicidal sanitisation (UV-SEE-NoCo)

为应对新冠肺炎疫情，全球范围内的封锁拯救了生命，但也给我们的生活方式带来了巨大的混乱，给英国和其他国家带来了巨大的个人牺牲和经济挑战。现在很明显，在冠状病毒疫苗广泛应用之前，我们需要制定策略来放松或摆脱封锁。要想恢复“正常”的生活和经济活动，人们需要变得自信，相信他们回到共享空间、公共交通工具、社交场所等是安全的，他们可以安全地处理其他人触摸、使用或准备的物品：包裹、衣服、食物、餐具等。在许多环境中，广泛和持续地使用化学消毒剂是不现实或不合适的：一个人不能永远在公交车上喷洒漂白剂，也不能证明在餐馆里你的地方附近没有人咳嗽。在许多情况下，需要一种非化学、非接触的消毒方法，幸运的是，已经有了一种方法。深紫外光(“UV-C”)已经为人所知，并被用来破坏包括病毒、细菌和真菌在内的细菌的遗传物质。由于它的工作方式，这并不依赖于对冠状病毒的进一步详细研究：如果剂量足够大，它只会杀死病毒。UV-C消毒已经在一些空调和水净化系统中使用，因此它几乎可以随时对抗冠状病毒，但...我们预计UV-C消毒将得到更广泛的使用，并将被纳入许多新的和以前想象不到的产品中。关键问题将是：“我们怎么知道它奏效了？”没有连续的实时检测冠状病毒的方法，所以知道UV-C消毒值得信赖的唯一方法是测量紫外线的剂量。在这个项目中，我们将创建一个优化的探测器，用于负担得起的部署，以验证UV-C剂量的交付。这将是一种电子元件，设备制造商可以将其内置到他们的产品控制中，以确保在使用设备时始终应用有效的“杀死”剂量。作为一家老牌探测器制造商，我们拥有一支经验丰富的工程师团队，他们恰好在设计这种类型的设备方面具有研究背景，我们还拥有一家英国工厂，我们迫不及待地开始制造它们。让我们所有人都更安全，让经济重新站稳脚跟。

The worldwide lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have saved lives but led to massive disruption to how we live, immense personal sacrifices and economic challenges for the UK and other countries. It is now becoming clear that we will need to develop strategies to relax or emerge from lockdown before a vaccine against coronavirus is widely available.Resuming "normal" life and economic activity will require people to become confident that it is safe for them to return to shared spaces, public transport, social venues etc. and that they can safely handle objects which others have touched, used or prepared: parcels, clothing, meals, cutlery and so on.In many settings it will not be practical or appropriate to use chemical disinfectants on a widespread and continuous basis: one cannot perpetually spray bleach within a bus or prove that no-one has coughed near your place setting in a restaurant. In many cases a non-chemical, non-contact disinfecting method will be required and fortunately one already exists. Deep ultraviolet light ("UV-C") is already known and used to disrupt the genetic material of germs including viruses, bacteria and fungi. Because of the way it works this does not depend on further detailed studies of coronavirus: with a strong enough dose it just kills the virus. UV-C disinfection is already used in some air conditioning and water purification systems, so it is almost ready-to-go against coronavirus but...We anticipate that UV-C disinfection will become much more widely used and will be incorporated into many new and previously unimagined products. The key question will be: "how do we know it has worked?" There is no continuous real-time method for detecting coronavirus, so the only way of knowing that a UV-C disinfection can be trusted is to measure the dose of UV light.In this project we will create a detector which is optimised for affordable deployment to validate the delivery of UV-C doses. This will be an electronic component which equipment manufacturers can build into the controls of their products to ensure that an effective "kill" dose is always applied when the equipment is used.As an established detector manufacturer we have a team of experienced engineers who happen to have research backgrounds in designing this type of device, and a UK factory where we can't wait to start making them. To make all of us safer and get the economy back on its feet.