Aircraft Sanitisation Verification Service (ASVS)

COVID-19疫情导致全球大部分机队停飞。随着疫情得到控制，旅行再次成为可能，最大限度地提高安全性将至关重要。病毒颗粒，例如COVID-19，可以在空气中保持感染性数小时，并在表面上长达数天，这取决于表面类型和环境条件。在这种背景下，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证。为了将旅行成本保持在合理的水平，重要的是确保消毒过程有效，而不增加飞机的“停机时间”。为了对整个飞机内部进行快速消毒，一种被称为“雾化”的技术（即向空气中喷洒消毒剂的薄雾，然后覆盖表面）被认为是未来的关键。最大的问题是确保覆盖面是全面的。本项目旨在应对这一挑战，为期五个月，将产生两项关键产出。新型、廉价的纸基（可生物降解）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，当它们与用于清洁飞机的消毒剂接触时，会改变颜色。该项目的第二个方面将是开发一种阅读器，最初基于智能手机平台，可以测量颜色，从而确定消毒量。这可以显示在屏幕上，并发送到一个中央位置，该位置将记录来自该飞机上所有传感器的结果。该项目将由Intercede Ventures Ltd提供，该公司由航空业的前高级管理人员组成。该公司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，将于2020年底推出该产品。此外，随着世界经济开始缓慢复苏，它将帮助航空和旅游业从COVID-19危机中复苏，为航空乘客提供急需的航空旅行安全信心。原项目延长三个月将加强Intercede Ventures Ltd在2020年底前营销该产品的准备，并扩大市场机会。这将通过确保传感器对“雾化”中使用的所有消毒剂做出反应来实现，并且通过移动的电话平台操作的传感器读取器易于技术或IT技能不多的人使用。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，以验证系统的运行情况，并为潜在客户提供性能证据。项目的整体影响保持不变，即确保乘客安全并支持航空公司从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，以支持公司发展并增加对社会和经济的影响。

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.