Finding a viable solution to overcome the spread of Covid 19 pandemic, a student of the IT Faculty of Horizon Campus, Chamod Hansajith, has recently designed a triple active currency sanitizing machine to sanitize currency notes.
This machine which is sensitive to motion starts automatically and has a mechanism that starts to spray the sanitizer liquid like vapor and hot air flow driven by the dryer where currency notes are sanitized by a UV light beam. The sanitizing process is not harmful and does not damage the currency notes.
Chamod stated, “Money that changes hands is an active carrier of all kinds of bacteria and viruses including Covid 19 and many banks have been ordered today to withdraw potentially infected cash from circulation in order to curb the spread. These include those received from high-risk sites such as hospitals and markets. My aim was to come up with a solution where the public could use cash safely through a system that could decontaminate cash. Therefore, the machine I have designed can effectively sanitize the currencies through the use of ultraviolet rays without damaging the notes.”
“ As UV has already been found to be an attractive safeguard against airborne transmission, one with a track record against pathogens that can be deployed to reduce the risk of infections, I felt that a machine using UV rays to kill the germs off the surface of currencies would be an ideal solution.”
“I hope my invention will provide in being a useful solution for the use of currency amongst the people of Sri Lanka during these pandemic times.”
With everyday interactions with money being inevitable, such as withdrawing cash from ATM machines and certain sectors of society in remote regions of the country not having access to digital payments, as well as dealing with currency becoming unavoidable especially in sectors such as banking, innovations such as that designed by Chamod could pave the way towards making currency safer to handle during the times of the Covid Pandemic.
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