Israeli-invented ‘Soapy’ sinks help save lives from COVID-19
Soapy has reinvented the concept of the sink to help ensure that in the environments where its most important - such as hospitals and schools - hands are really getting clean.
Soapy micro-station (photo credit: Courtesy)
The coronavirus crisis
has heightened the world’s attention toward proper hygiene, which is
considered a key component in preventing the spread of the disease. An
Israeli company, Soapy, has brought hand hygiene into the 21st Century.
“We
have drones, self-driving cars, and so many other things supporting our
environment,” said company founder and CEO Max Simonovsky. “What we
found is that when you go back to something so basic like hand hygiene,
you don’t have any smart tools to support you.”
Until recently.
In this tutorial, you ca
Soapy Care Handwashing and Dashboard Tutorial,Aug 1, 2020
In see how to use the Soapy ECO Hygiene
Micro-Station. The video also demonstrates a basic view of the
SoapyWisdom data dashboard - which tracks the quality of the handwashing
cycles.
Soapy has reinvented the concept of the sink to help ensure that in the environments where its most important - such as hospitals and schools - hands are really getting clean.
The
company offers AI-enhanced, internet-connected, eco-friendly, hygiene
micro-stations that help users wash their hands according to standards
set by the World Health Organization.
The
system offers step-by-step guidance for an optimal wash with every use,
tracking how well you do and letting you know in real time. The system
has instant and unlimited warm water and a special proprietary hand
soap. Yet, it uses 95% less water and 60% less soap than washing at a
regular sink, the company literature claims.
If customized, Soapy sinks offer user recognition, temperature
measurement and instant high temperature notifications - essential in
the coronavirus era.
The company offers a similar platform for hand sanitizing gel.
Sheba
Medical Center has already implemented the both systems throughout its
coronavirus wards and at other key locations across the hospital to help
ensure good hygiene for its medical and other staff.
“Sheba
installed the units … to provide staff with a simple and supportive
tool to make sure they can sanitize their hands - to keep employees safe
and the patients safe,” Simonovsky told The Jerusalem Post. He
said the decision to install Soapy was made by Dr. Gili Regev-Yochay,
who runs the hospital’s Infectious Disease Epidemiology unit but also is
responsible for overseeing the testing and implementation of new
technologies for COVID-19 at the medical center. Sheba confirmed.
“One
of the main risks in the coronavirus department is not coronavirus -
the patients already have it - but the other diseases or infections that
might complicate the treatment of the patients,” Simonovsky said. “We
want to make sure that if you have someone going into the department
with another disease that it will not spread around.”
The
other aspect is the real-time feedback. First, doctors and other staff
receive feedback if they have washed their hands well, so they can feel
more confident about it. Moreover, since the machines are taking the
user’s temperature at multiple points during the washing, someone who
might have come into work healthy but started to develop symptoms
throughout the day could be caught earlier - before he or she has a
chance to spread the virus.
Finally,
since all the information that is collected through the system’s unique
sensor is sent to the “Soapy Wisdom” cloud and analyzed, ultimately it
can spit back how the hospital or other location is doing, which can
help gauge the hand cleanliness quality of the whole business.
“It’s
about understanding what you cannot see in terms of disease and spread
of disease from your hands to everyone around you,” Simonovsky said.
When
Simonovsky and his partner Alex Orlovsky founded the company,
coronavirus did not exist. The idea came from a conversation Simonovsky
had with his young child about why washing hands is important.
The
first Soapy prototypes were designed to fit schools in rural areas with
little access to clean water – helping in the prevention of child
morbidity and mortality. But they quickly learned that hand hygiene was
not only a third-world challenge - the food industry, elder care
facilities and schools could all benefit from such a solution.
Soapy Care Sanitizing and Dashboard Tutorial, Aug 2, 2020
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to use Soapy's ECO Hygiene Micro-Station for sanitizing your hands, showing live results instantly displayed on the micro-station's monitor.
It took them three years of research and four prototypes to create
the modern Soapy micro-stations. Now, they are deployed in 12
countries.
Since COVID-19, business has grown so much it is hard to keep up with the demand, Simonovsky said.
Their website includes a section dedicated to the virus with a note that “Soapy hygiene micro-stations can help to halt the spread of COVID-19 and literally save lives.”
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