DRDO ultraviolet system to sanitize currency notes.
                     DRDO Ultraviolet System 
to Sanitize Currency 
Notes
Introduction
• The RCI, a chief research center of DRDO based at Hyderabad, has built up a 
mechanized contactless UVC disinfecting bureau to sterilize cell phones, 
iPads, workstations, cash notes, check leafs, challans, passbooks, and paper. 
• Research Center Imarat (RCI), a piece of Defense Research Development 
Organization (DRDO), built up the Defense Research Ultraviolet Sanitiser 
(DRUVS). 
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What was the Need? 
• There were numerous individuals who had been scratching their heads on 
the most proficient method to clean money notes, paper stuff and electronic 
devices in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, it was a need to give 
to individuals to distrain the danger and frenzy. 
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What It Will Do?
• It gives 360-degree presentation of UVC to objects put inside the bureau. 
When cleansing is done, the framework goes in rest mode, DRDO educated. 
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How it’s Done?
• Proximity sensor switches clubbed with cabinet opening and shutting 
instrument makes its activity programmed and contactless. 
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Uniqueness
• The most significant and engaging component of DRUVS, opposite the fight 
against Covid-19, is that its activity is contactless. 
• The proximity sensor switches, clubbed with cabinet opening and shutting 
instrument, guarantees that its activity is programmed and contactless. 
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Other Names
• With respect to money purification, the RCI has additionally built up a 
mechanized UVC gadget called Notesclean. Groups of money notes can be 
purified yet sterilization of every cash note utilizing it will be a tedious 
procedure. 
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Smooth Operation
• So a cleaning method has been created whereby the cash notes are to be 
put at the info space. The notes will be gotten in a steady progression and 
made to go through a progression of UVC lights for complete purification.
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First Test
• At the point when the principal clump of travelers land at the Cochin 
International Airport Ltd (CIAL) on Thursday night at 9.340 pm (IST), their 
stuff will go through an UV (bright) sterilization chamber. 
• Created by the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), a 
choice Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) wing 
arranged at Thrikkakara close Kochi, the UV framework has ompleted all 
establishment checks in front of its first test. 
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What is DRDO?
• DRDO is India's biggest research association. It has a system of research 
facilities occupied with creating resistance advancements covering different 
fields, similar to air transportation, deadly implements, hardware, land 
battle designing, life sciences, materials, rockets, and maritime frameworks.
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Thank You!!!
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