Use UVC ultraviolet light to kill viruses
Use UVC ultraviolet light to kill viruses
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Use UVC ultraviolet light to kill viruses

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Well, we all know we're in a new era we used to disinfect just about everything we touch, including our phones, our tablets, our keyboards, our mice, especially if they're shared within the family or around the office. But do you know that sprays like these that say they disinfect and seem like a panacea say on the label to disinfect Leave the liquid on for ten minutes. This one here, this is quick. It says two minutes. Nobody's gonna do that. Now what? [MUSIC] Mark Some might have some ideas for us. He's VP of sales at a company called bio guard and they disinfect things in a different way their product uses ultraviolet light. Mark, you have some products that look kind of like drawers essentially that I would put things in phones and tablets are particularly interesting. Once something is in there, what happens to it. You put your phone, tablet, whatever you want to put in there that fits in the enclosure, close the door and the UV light kicks on. It runs through about a 60 second cycle. And once that cycle hits the light inside that UV light, it is UVC that you would be like, bombards All of the surface area that's being placed in there. And it hits it 360 degrees so, it's taking care of all those pathogens breaking down the DNA and killing them. And then like I said in under 60 seconds you open the door point your stuff out and it's disinfected.>>You guys say it's only FDA approved. Ultraviolet c product of its type specifically what is the approval it's boasting of Our original product is the defender and that defender, okay, it's it's a automated self sanitizing keyboard so it houses the keyboard inside of it. It's a dedicated keyboard works much like a CD player. So you wave your hand in front. The keyboard opens up and comes out and you type on a disinfected keyboard. When you're done, it's on a timer. You walk away from the keyboard and it will automatically go back into The defender and the UV light kicks on disinfects the keyboard and you're ready to go for a new clean keyboard for the next user that comes to use that keyboard. So that technology is what we were able to get FDA clearance on using Those lights at the UVC level 254 nanometers. People have heard that UV light and even UVC if you're not in the right part of the spectrum, and using it and controlling it properly has hazards to scan an eyes. So tell us how this is safe. Yeah, it's safe because it's fully enclosed. Okay, So you're here you don't need any PP gear to protect your eyes. You don't need any gloves. I mean your gear fully away from that UV light as its as its operating Okay The cool thing that allowed us to get that FDA clearance is the technology that's embedded into the firmware. You're using technology that measures the UV energy. And if the UV energy can get to the amount or the level it needs to get to It'll show an error code. So basically every cycle has a compliance feature built in. Hmm, you have three, three major products really two form factors more for I think consumer interest is this thing called cubby plus, which is a storage drawer or tray where I can put my stuff, set it in there and let this cleaner go to work. Is that the same effectiveness as this keyboard device? It is and that is the great thing is we use that same technology in the defender, and we applied it into the cubby plus. So it has that same compliance feature has the same amount of energy that the UV is emitting And it's an enclosed feature, right? So it's completely safe for the everyday user. You just shut the door, and it won't, the lights will not come on until the door is shut. Let's talk in the big picture here. What is it about UVC that makes it do its thing, and particularly Is it working on the current strain of corona virus? Or does it just work on corona viruses and we've yet to verify that it works on SARS-CoV too? Right now, all of the testing we're doing is done on surrogates that respond and react similar to COVID-19. We know that those viruses are actually, and according to a study done by Emirates, they're pretty weak. And so we know that week and how much energy it takes to disinfect the SARS and COVID. We know that type of energy we know the energy we're running through our equipment. So just from an engineering standpoint, we know we're able to bombard and kill Write down the DNA on those viruses, right? But we are also running studies on the surrogates that are mimicking those and they are killing them and knocking them down and sometimes in less than 60 seconds Sometimes we're looking at around 15 to 20 seconds right so when you engineer in the factor of 60 seconds, you know you're getting the killed okay? $899 is a pretty stout price about the price someone would have paid for their phone initially. Is there? Is there a particular insight here on who this is ideal for. The average person may look at it and say it's a little steep for my budget. Where does this fit We're moving into channels of Hospitality, Restaurants. We're looking at Education, University Libraries. There's a myriad of places or people are looking to put this in and We're also getting home use and I think a lot of that home use is coming from consumers who are now moving into a space where they're working from home. I had a man call up and said his wife takes care of all these bill of ladings for trucking companies. And he needed something to take care of stuff that was coming in from the truckers all around the United States. They were bringing stuff to her and she Wanted to make sure it was cleaned before she got it. And so her husband as calling about this equipment. You got three boys out running around playing and they have their phones and what not. They come in their mom or dad can make them run their phone through before they come into the house. Yeah. You don't make your house a web of protection right and so I think there's a great Place for all scenarios for this technology..>> Now, one of your best known competitors is 120 bucks. It's a very different price point. I don't believe, if I'm not mistaken, that it's in the FDA approved class, although I'm not sure that. What's the story on pricing that you can tell us for a pricing roadmap Cuz a lot of folks would like to pay a couple hundred bucks for something like this and have it be available even if it's only gonna do one thing like their phone. Knowing what I know, I would look at okay how long does it take to disinfect what I want disinfected, because a lot of those devices take 10, 15, 20 minutes. To even get a level of disinfection right and is it getting the level that a hospital would use? Is it built that's going to take the wear and tear? How long will the bulbs last? Right, is there technology that's measuring the amount of energy from those bulbs consistently, because what happens if a bulb goes out? Well, you're still gonna look and see there's a glare from bulbs going on if one of the bulbs goes out but you're not getting the disinfection that you need. So having that compliance feature that I talked about earlier that measures the UV energy, it's called a dosimeter. Right and it measures that UV energy each cycle. And that's pretty key, so you pay a little bit more for that but you know you have that comfort that it's working. We see so much of this spreading too and automakers are working on developing UVC air purifiers that will purify the air in cars, again keeping the light contained in the. Hvac vents. We hear a lot about this being used in elevators, elevators are a big problem. As big buildings reopen. If we're going to have one or two people at a time go up and down. It'll take you two hours to get to your 30th floor office in New York or Chicago. Do you have any view on how this might spread? Just generally as you look at the industry is this a time when UVC can really spread cost effectively, or does it remain unexpensive technology? You know from from what we're seeing, we're seeing it as a cost effective model and especially when you look at the amount of time and cleaners and wipes All of that, you can add that up. And maybe it's a soft cost, maybe it's not but I think if you take a look at what we're doing in terms of, what's that gonna add to landfill. So you're looking at a green aspect, right? There's a green component to this. Plus just the cost of all the wipes and keeping those in stock and managing them, the SKUs that you need right to hold those, and how much it costs to keep askew just in your inventory. I think there's a lot that you can put now towards You know, the cost savings of UVC we're looking at a technology that does hand sanitizer, or it does handrails on, like people Movers. Yeah. You know, escalators? Well, that's interesting that that that goes at the grocery store yesterday, which was I was thinking about our interview today. And as I walked up. To the check stand, their protocol is to take a spray not unlike one of these and wipe down the whole belt before the next person is able to come through and I thought well that's not going to work. This stuff says right on the bottle. It needs two, three, four, five, 10 minutes of wet application to kill. This is just Sterilization theater. And I wondered Is there a way to propagate like you say handrails on a people mover the underside of a grocery store belt so there's UV all the time working on everything around us because even your product needs more than a quick few seconds it needs a minute or so.>> if we're down below escalator right you can up the amount of energy. So you It's a time versus distance versus an interesting. Okay equation. Okay. So, if you have more energy or you're closer to the UV emitting source, you can bring down the disinfection time. Exactly and depending on what you wanna disinfect right, like a SARS right some pathogens are easy to kill, they break down easy. I mean we build our devices to kill C. diff, right c diff is a bad bug in the hospitals right and C diff That's encased in a protein shell. So you wanna be able to have the energy and time to break down that protein shell. So that's kinda been a gold standard. If you're equipment can kill cida, then it's a good thing and so, infection preventionists look at that in the hospital setting and say okay, does it kill cida And that becomes the goal, kind of a gold standard, really. And so that's why we look at having that healthcare check of endorsement as a really great thing. Because we know phones are filthy. right? Phones are dirty, they're an extension of your hand. Yeah. And I don't think people see that right? I don't think people they recognize that the phone is touched 2600 times a day. You put your phone up to your face, and you talk into your phone. So all of that stuff is is on your phone. I think we should look at phones as an extension of your hand. Yeah. And you touch the grocery cart or you touch the keypad and then you go grab your phone. So you're transferring stuff to your phone with your own hand all the time. Okay, I've been talking to mark Beeston, he's VP sales for vial guard. And we're going to stay on top of the UVC topic in general because it seems to be an interesting new vanguard of disinfection that is trickling down from what used to be a medical clinical industrial sector, to one that might have more use in our everyday lives.

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