IIT Kanpur develops low-cost disinfection chamber for public places

Projected to cost less than Rs 50,000 apiece on mass production

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur has developed a low-cost rapid disinfection process chamber for installation at public places, such as offices and markets.

Each chamber unit costs less than Rs 50,000 and mbe set up with locally available items, said Professor Deepu Philip of IIT Kanpur's Department of industrial and management engineering (IME).

The project was initiated by a team of faculty members from the departments of computer science, IME, biosciences and bioengineering (BSBE). “The idea was to design an innovative product, which could disinfect quickly in less than two minutes with locally available