Expressing what he says is a “strong desire” to contribute to “a private sector” initiative that responds to the vulnerabilities to which both patrons and staff of high-traffic establishments including shopping centres, banks, hospitals, and other public places, are exposed in the face of the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, Starr Computers President Mike Mohan earlier this week briefed the Stabroek Business on the new Starr Disinfectant Channel, a four-stage sanitising device which has been installed at the company’s Brickdam complex.
The walk-through monitoring and sanitising chamber deploys a thirty-second sanitising process that is applied prior to visitors accessing the interior of the premises being visited. Its first intervention is an infra-red (IR) ultra-fast temperature reader that is attached to the wrist, triggering an alarm if a fever is detected. This procedure is followed by a “touch-less hand sanitiser” followed by the dispensing of a neutralising mist that disinfects bacteria on the outer clothing or skin. Simultaneously, shoes are treated with a disinfection process.
All of these processes are executed before the subject enters the business area of the facility being visited. The device is able to detect persons on the premises not wearing face masks and when connected to an electronic tablet, has the capability to monitor real-time activity.
Earlier this week Mohan told Stabroek Business that apart from the introduction of the device as a means of protecting both employees and visitors to the Starr Computers complex, he was also interested in bringing the facility to the attention of the wider business community, and to the various public service institutions. In addition to these testing and detection processes, Mohan says that the device also possesses a “facial recognition capability” that can generate a audible alarm to draw attention to “missing masks” as well as conduct a body count of human traffic within the given space.
Mohan says that the facility is already “up and running” at the Starr Computers complex and that interested business houses and other institutions can contact the firm to arrange a visit to experience what he says is an important caution and safety facility.
