Making the Invisible, Visible

In this podcast episode of Making the Invisible Visible from Intellego Technologies, host Wendy Brady-Walling joins Steve Reinecke in a conversation about new applications with UV-C technology.

In the healthcare environment, touchscreens, tablets, keyboards, and other sophisticated monitoring equipment have helped advance the quality of patient care. However, these same high-touch objects can risk spreading pathogens because they are not easily and infrequently cleaned. In this episode, Steve and Wendy discuss how UV-C devices can be used to directly, regularly, and automatically irradiate high-touch electronic equipment used in the healthcare environment. Steve shares information on the studies that have been conducted and how UV-C can safely, effectively, and efficiently reduce pathogen colonization to mitigate the risk of infection.

In this episode of Making the Invisible Visible, host Daniel Litwin welcomes Phone Soap co-founder/CEO Wesley LaPorte and Jared Elliot, Director of Global Sales. The three discuss how UV-C technology leaped from the corporate space to clean quickly and safely everything from businesses to classrooms. For years, UV-C has been at the forefront of a sanitization transformation. Now, it has entered the consumer space as a powerful disinfectant of mobile devices at home.

As the virus continued its growth, Phone Soap, which began in 2011, connected the dots on consumer use and soon sold out its devices. LaPorte said, “Although previously used in laboratory and medical environments, UV-C also works, to disinfect personal electronics touched by your family and others in everyday use.” But he also added, “trusting that the product and brand produces a product that works is important.”

Personal devices are constantly being used and in various settings. And tests have shown that one of the dirtiest items we have is a phone, yet it’s rarely cleaned. Phone Soap has designed and built a proven and effective design while testing with Intelligo dosimeters. As a result, Phone Soap created the personal disinfection device market and continues to work very well with expansion to other sizes for shared-use items.

The development of personal UV-C disinfectant devices has assisted a shift to concerns for cleanliness. As a result, Elliot said, “UV-C devices are now appearing in business, fitness centers and offices where people interact, shop and work.”

“There’s additional use cases for UV-C disinfection,” says Elliott, “and we’re just scratching the surface.”

El último año y medio de disrupciones sanitarias ha revelado la importancia de mejores prácticas para mantener la salud de la gente en lugares públicos y de alto tráfico. En el primer episodio hispanohablante de Making the Invisible, Visible, un podcast de Intellego Technologies, exploramos los beneficios de UV-C en este contexto. Vamos a explorar los casos de uso para rayos ultravioleta tipo C en las tecnologías biomédicas, pero no solo explorando cómo funciona la tecnología; también daremos puntos de vista de cómo maximizar esta tecnología en un ecosistema de soluciones innovadoras.

En esta entrevista, Patricia y Verónica explican cómo esta tecnología ha avanzado en años recientes y porque en Europa, específicamente en España, se pueden encontrar usos en varias industrias. Se darán respuestas a preguntas tan importantes como:

¿Cómo funciona UVC como una solución biomédica, y el por qué de la eficacia?

¿Cómo funciona dentro del ecosistema hospitalario? ¿Qué reemplazan y qué complementan?

¿Cuales son los sectores españoles en los que existen la mayoría de oportunidades para utilizar el ecosistema de productos UV-C y por qué?

Más información sobre nuestras invitadas:

- Patricia Pregel es la Directora de ventas de Intellego Technologies para el sur de Europa, LATAM y África.

- Verónica Vidal está a cargo de Directora de Biodosimetría e Innovación para Fotoglass, una compañía creando aplicaciones ópticas para el sector industrial y biomédico, validando a la eficacia de tecnología crítica a estos sectores.

There are higher expectations than ever before surrounding safety and well-being in schools as this fall's semester approaches, and it's going to take a unified effort from administrators, educators, technology integrators and more to meet them. In this Intellego live event, you'll learn more about crafting safer environments that facilitate powerful learning, even in teh midst of challenging times.