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It lights up during the day and disinfects at night. Four days before the start of deconfinement and a return to work for many French people, health security is more than ever at the heart of the concerns of companies. But between the four square meters that each employee must have, wearing a mask and hydroalcoholic gel, disinfecting offices several times a day remains a headache for employers. What if part of the solution came from an anti-coronavirus luminaire? This is in any case the idea put forward by the French company Dietal, established in Puy-de-Dôme, at the origin of this invention.
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Disinfect surfaces with ultraviolet
"It is a hybrid lamp", explains at the microphone of Europe 1 morning this Thursday Didier Prouteau, the general manager of the company. Concretely, this remote controlled lighting has two functions: the first is ordinary, while the other allows, thanks to "UVC leds", to diffuse ultraviolet on a surface, thus eliminating the infectious nature of a virus. Technology already "proven", he recalls, since hospitals have been using it for years. He also specifies that "it is not necessary to change all the lights in a space, a few copies are enough depending on the surface".
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The first deliveries for the end of August
Called "Quadro UVC Covid", this lamp is also equipped with presence sensors to automatically stop ultraviolet radiation, harmful to humans, as soon as a person enters a room. The prototypes are in the approval phase, before manufacturing in a "mini-series" this summer and first deliveries are planned from the end of August to the beginning of September.