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

为应对Covid-19大流行而采取的全球封锁措施挽救了生命，但也给我们的生活方式带来了巨大的破坏，给英国和其他国家带来了巨大的个人牺牲和经济挑战。现在越来越清楚的是，我们需要制定战略，在冠状病毒疫苗广泛可用之前放松或摆脱封锁。恢复“正常”的生活和经济活动需要人们有信心，他们可以安全地返回共享空间、公共交通工具、社交场所等，并且他们可以安全地处理他人接触、使用或准备的物品：包裹、衣服、食物、餐具等。在许多情况下，广泛和持续地使用化学消毒剂是不实际或不合适的：人们不能在公共汽车上永久地喷洒漂白剂，也不能证明在餐馆里没有人在你的座位附近咳嗽。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，这种方法已经存在。深紫外线（“UV-C”）已经为人所知，并被用于破坏包括病毒、细菌和真菌在内的细菌的遗传物质。由于它的工作方式，这并不取决于对冠状病毒的进一步详细研究：只要剂量足够大，它就能杀死病毒。UV-C消毒已经在一些空调和水净化系统中使用，所以它几乎可以对抗冠状病毒，但是……我们预计UV-C消毒将得到更广泛的应用，并将纳入许多新的和以前无法想象的产品。关键问题将是：“我们怎么知道它起作用了？”没有连续的实时检测冠状病毒的方法，所以知道UV- c消毒是否可信的唯一方法是测量紫外线的剂量。在这个项目中，我们将创建一个探测器，它经过优化，可负担得起的部署，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产品的控制中，以确保在使用设备时始终施加有效的“杀伤”剂量。作为一家成熟的探测器制造商，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，以及我们迫不及待地开始制造它们的英国工厂。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.