Alok Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Shycocan Corporation
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Virus Attenuation Device Shycocan is creating safe working spaces amid the Covid-19 outbreak

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Rekha Nair

Mumbai: Shycocan, a breakthrough virus-attenuation device invented and manufactured in India, is making industries work-ready amid the Covid pandemic. The plug-and-play device ensures protection from coronavirus transmitting indoors and enables a safe working space. It covers an area of 1,000 sq. ft of uninterrupted space and generates high-intensity photons turned electrons that neutralizes the infectivity of both air and surface-borne coronavirus.

The COVID-19 global health emergency and its economic and social impacts have disrupted nearly all aspects of life. After the vaccination process is completed, offices, factories, schools and business outlets are planning to return to their workplace with adequate employee safety. Besides the normal strict hygiene standards, additional safety measures are required in factories and offices to create a safe working space for employees. The Shycocan works effectively against all current and future variants and mutants of the coronavirus, protecting people’s health and saving millions of hours of lost productivity by making the workplace safe.

Alok Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, Shycocan Corporation, said, “The pandemic caused a huge loss of livelihoods at a global level. With the unlocking process, offices, factories, malls, restaurants etc. started resumed functioning following the standard safety measures. We are glad to help companies resume their activities by creating a safer workplace for their employees. The Shycocan will help protect more than 250 employees of a company from the highly infectious coronavirus , significantly reducing the risk of the pandemic and allowing the workforce to operate without fear of getting infected at the office premises.”

Shycocan is a well-designed device that is effective and safe and has been thoroughly tested. It neither uses nor emits radiation, chemicals, ozone or any material that harms humans or the environment. Multiple devices can be installed to cover a larger indoor space. Shycocan has widespread usage across market segments like hospitals, clinics, schools, higher education institutions, banking sector, manufacturing and retail outlets, hospitality sector, government offices, real estate corporations and businesses.

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The Weizmann researchers assumed that the main obstacle has been the fact that most methods are incompatible with our natural perception strategies. These methods leave out the component referred to as active sensing. Thus, most vision-to-touch systems make finger movement unnecessary by converting the visual stimuli to vibratory skin stimulations. Dr. Amos Arieli and Prof. Ehud Ahissar of the Neurobiology Department, together with intern Dr. Yael Zilbershtain-Kra, set themselves the goal to develop a vision-to-touch system that would more closely mimic the natural sense of touch. The idea was to enable the user to perceive information by actively exploring the environment, without the confusing intervention of artificial stimulation aids. "Our system not just enables but, in fact, forces people to perform active sensing – that is, to move a hand in order to 'see' distant objects, much as they would to palpate a nearby object," Arieli says. "The sensation occurs in their moving hand, as in regular touch." In the Weizmann system – called ASenSub – a small lightweight camera is attached to the user's hand, and the image it captures is converted into tactile signals via an array of 96 pins placed under the tips of three fingers of the same hand.After the camera's frame is mapped onto the pins, the height of each pin is determined by the brightness of the corresponding pixel in the frame. For example, if the camera scans a black triangle on a white surface, the pins corresponding to white pixels stay flat, while those mapped to black pixels are raised the moment the camera meets the triangle, producing a virtual feeling of palpating an embossed triangle. Zilbershtain-Kra, with the help of ophthalmologist Dr. Shmuel Graffi, tested ASenSub in a series of experiments with sighted, blindfolded, participants and with people blind from birth. Both groups were at first asked to identify two-dimensional geometrical shapes, then three-dimensional objects, such as an apple, a toy rhinoceros and a pair of scissors. Following training of less than two and a half hours, both groups learned to identify objects correctly within less than 20 seconds – an unprecedented level of performance compared with existing vision-to-touch methods, which generally require lengthy training and enable perception that remains frustratingly slow. No less significant was the fact that the high performance was preserved over a long period:Participants invited for another series of experiments nearly two years later were quick to identify new shapes and objects using ASenSub. Yet another striking quality of ASenSub: It gave blind-from-birth participants a true "feel" for what it's like to see objects at a distance. Says Graffi: "As a clinician, it was fascinating for me that they could actually experience optical properties they'd previously only heard about, such as shadows or the reduced size of distant objects." Sighted and blind participants performed equally well in the experiments, but analysis of results showed that their scanning strategies were different. Sighted people tended to focus to a great extent on the object's unique feature, for example, the tip of the triangle, the rhino's tale or scissor blades. In contrast, blind people encompassed each object along its entire contour, much as they commonly do to identify objects by unaided touch. In other words, people relied on a strategy that's most familiar to them through experience, which suggests that it's learning and experience that mainly guide us in the use of our senses, rather than some inborn, genetically pre-programmed property of the brain. And this conclusion, in turn, suggests that in the future, it may be possible to teach people with sensory disabilities to make more optimal use of their senses. Yellow and red, showing the most frequently scanned areas, reveal the differences in scanning strategies employed by the sighted people (left) and the blind (right) while using ASenSub "In broader terms, our study provides further support for the idea that natural sensing is primarily active," Ahissar says. "We let people be active and to do so in an intuitive way, using their automatic perceptual systems that work with closed loop interactions between the brain and the world. This is what likely led to dramatic improvement compared to other vision-to-touch methods." Zilbershtain-Kra adds: "Our approach has demonstrated the brain's amazing plasticity, which, in a way, enabled people to acquire a new 'sense.' 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