In an attempt to stop the spread of infectious diseases, especially COVID-19, Israeli startup Soapy Care has joined Indian community health groups Sanitation Frist and Swasti to set up its artificial-intelligence based handwashing stations in India's Bangalore and Puducherry districts.
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Soapy Care shouldered the cost of the hygiene stations as part of its policy goal to supply 10 times as many of its handwashing products to villages in India and Africa as it sells elsewhere.
The handwashing stations have been set up in far-flung villages that suffer from high rates of child mortality from intestinal diseases spread through unclean hands. Soapy Care's technology uses computerized vision based on artificial intelligence (AI) to determine whether or not a person's hands have been effectively cleaned of germs and viruses, and whether the user has washed the backs of their hands, as well as their palms.
The stations also take the users' temperature, thus identifying possible COVID-19 symptoms.
Soapy Care's hygiene stations are water-efficient and use approximately one glass of water to perform an effective wash, compared to the 12 glasses used when washing hands under an ordinary tap.
Soapy Care founder and CEO Max Simonovsky said, "The model we have led to make a major contribution to the international community allows the project to continue for a long time, because it does not depend on donations. Our customers can be partners in reducing illnesses among children and adults throughout the world. We have man other stations that have already been sent to India and will soon be set up in other rural areas, and in neighborhoods in New Delhi."
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