<p>Four startups co-founded by IIT Kharagpur alumni have come up with unique ways of sanitisation such as using the robot-like device to spray charged water droplets for sanitisation of large areas and Artificial Intelligence ( AI) based interactive platform through which people can get their queries regarding COVID-19 answered by AI.</p>.<p>IIT Kharagpur alumnus Debayan Saha has collaboratively developed a device called Airlines Minus Corona to sanitize areas by spraying charged water droplets which are ionized using the viral discharge.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-news-live-updates-indias-tally-spikes-over-11200-death-toll-rises-to-394-817763.html"><strong>For latest updates on coronavirus outbreak, click here</strong></a></p>.<p>The device which looks like “ Robo Sapien (human-like) operates by the mechanism of using charged water droplets which get ionised by using the corona discharge. “ The ionised water in return oxidizes the viral protein reducing it to a non-harmful molecule, opined the innovators,” stated a release issued by IIT Kharagpur.</p>.<p>“Alcohols ( like ethanol or IPA) are known to inactivate viruses by denaturing their protein coat. But the alcohol-based hand sanitizers is useful for individuals or for sanitizing surfaces at a smaller scale...in the fight against coronavirus. However, this is insufficient in such an emergency as it is impractical to use alcohol for sanitizing cities,” said Saha in the release.</p>.<p>Another alumnus Souva Majumdar has come up with an AI-based interactive platform called denguebot.in which uses AI to answer the queries of people regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. It uses integrated information regarding the outbreak provided by WHO, Union Health Ministry, the Central government and the My Gov platform.</p>.<p>Another start-up called Intugine, co-founded by IIT Kharagpur alumni Harshit Shrivastava ( batch of 2016) and Ayush Agrawal (batch of 2018) is utilising their product Mobile Number Location Tracking to monitor a large number of home quarantined people and keep track of whether they are maintaining social distancing.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-india-update-state-wise-total-number-of-confirmed-cases-deaths-on-april-16-825917.html"><strong>Coronavirus India update: State-wise total number of confirmed cases, deaths on April 16</strong></a></p>.<p>“The Kgpians claim that their location intelligence platform, which is based on cell triangulation technology, can work on SMS-based user content without installing any application, i.e. even on basic phones, which makes it easy to implement,” stated the release.</p>.<p>Another start-up called Innovaccer co-founded by Abhinav Shashank and Kanav Hasija (batch of 2010)has come up with a “self-assessment smartphone app” which can be used to identify patients who face a higher risk of being infected.</p>
<p>Four startups co-founded by IIT Kharagpur alumni have come up with unique ways of sanitisation such as using the robot-like device to spray charged water droplets for sanitisation of large areas and Artificial Intelligence ( AI) based interactive platform through which people can get their queries regarding COVID-19 answered by AI.</p>.<p>IIT Kharagpur alumnus Debayan Saha has collaboratively developed a device called Airlines Minus Corona to sanitize areas by spraying charged water droplets which are ionized using the viral discharge.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-news-live-updates-indias-tally-spikes-over-11200-death-toll-rises-to-394-817763.html"><strong>For latest updates on coronavirus outbreak, click here</strong></a></p>.<p>The device which looks like “ Robo Sapien (human-like) operates by the mechanism of using charged water droplets which get ionised by using the corona discharge. “ The ionised water in return oxidizes the viral protein reducing it to a non-harmful molecule, opined the innovators,” stated a release issued by IIT Kharagpur.</p>.<p>“Alcohols ( like ethanol or IPA) are known to inactivate viruses by denaturing their protein coat. But the alcohol-based hand sanitizers is useful for individuals or for sanitizing surfaces at a smaller scale...in the fight against coronavirus. However, this is insufficient in such an emergency as it is impractical to use alcohol for sanitizing cities,” said Saha in the release.</p>.<p>Another alumnus Souva Majumdar has come up with an AI-based interactive platform called denguebot.in which uses AI to answer the queries of people regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. It uses integrated information regarding the outbreak provided by WHO, Union Health Ministry, the Central government and the My Gov platform.</p>.<p>Another start-up called Intugine, co-founded by IIT Kharagpur alumni Harshit Shrivastava ( batch of 2016) and Ayush Agrawal (batch of 2018) is utilising their product Mobile Number Location Tracking to monitor a large number of home quarantined people and keep track of whether they are maintaining social distancing.</p>.<p><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-india-update-state-wise-total-number-of-confirmed-cases-deaths-on-april-16-825917.html"><strong>Coronavirus India update: State-wise total number of confirmed cases, deaths on April 16</strong></a></p>.<p>“The Kgpians claim that their location intelligence platform, which is based on cell triangulation technology, can work on SMS-based user content without installing any application, i.e. even on basic phones, which makes it easy to implement,” stated the release.</p>.<p>Another start-up called Innovaccer co-founded by Abhinav Shashank and Kanav Hasija (batch of 2010)has come up with a “self-assessment smartphone app” which can be used to identify patients who face a higher risk of being infected.</p>