When we’re able to travel via airplane, you’ll likely be seeing the “GermFalcon.” The genius machine’s co-founder Elliot Kreitenberg shared with Ryan Seacrest on-air on Monday, April 27, he created the device with his father to help kill viruses and stop the spread of infectious disease on airplanes.
Their company, Dimer UCV Innovations, created the UV-C-emitting cleaning machine dubbed the GermFalcon for the airline industry in 2014, but Kreitenberg shared it's only now with Coronavirus that demand has really taken off.
“We’re using ultraviolet C-light, the same ones they’re using in hospitals and we’re looking for ways it could be deployed outside healthcare,” Kreitenberg explained to Seacrest. “We realized that airlines were a great market because they play a direct role in ways germs and diseases spread around the world so we built this thing. We used a flight attendant's food and drink cart as our model … and it has these ultraviolet C-lights all over it to disinfect all the high-touch surfaces in the airplane.”
So how does it work?
"At 30 rows per minute, we can achieve a 99% reduction of influenza and Coronavirus,” Kreitenberg shared. “[We can be] on and off the plane in about three minutes.”
How cool is that?!
Listen back to the full interview in the audio above to learn more and as Kreitenberg shared, expect to see the machines implemented in the airline industry before flu season this year.