IIT Team Develops Disinfection Machine for Sanitising Hospitals, Buses

A team at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has developed a low-cost LED-based machine which can be used for disinfection of floors at hospitals as well as buses and trains to aid the fight against COVID-19 in the country.

IIT Guwahati is also filing a patent for the machine, which when commercialised, will be available at a cost of Rs. 1,000. The current prototype of the machine, requires to be manually manned, however, the team is working on making it a robot manned machine which requires limited human intervention.

The machine developed at a request from the Karnataka government, to be used in its hospitals and buses, will now be pitched to other governments for commercial usage.