Ludhiana scientists develop low-cost 'touch-free' hand sanitiser, disinfection system

Scientists at ICAR-CIPHET (Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology) in Ludhiana claim that they have designed two low-cost machines, one touch-free hand sanitiser dispenser to sanitise hands and a portable smart UV-C disinfection system to disinfect mobile phones, wallets, amid COVID19 pandemic.

Both devices can be made at a budget of Rs 1500 each.

"Touch-free hand sanitiser dispenser also has an infra-red sensor with the help of which we can get sanitiser without touching anything.

It can be useful in areas which don't have facilities to wash hands," said Rahul Kumar, scientist."The portable smart UV-C disinfection system can disinfect our mobile phones, purses, wallets as they may also get infected when we carry them while going out.

Using UVC rays for 6 minutes on them, can result in disinfecting them," he explained further.