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Level III Phase 2

Utilization of DisinfecTent: An Automated Disinfection and Sanitation Scheme
(Activities conducted during pandemic in response to Covid-19)

Brief Rationale of the Project

Beginning the year 2020, the public and private sectors have been devastated by

the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of the country's provinces were placed under a
community quarantine. People were asked to stay home, businesses were required to

limit or temporarily cease operations, and schools were given the go signal to close for

an indefinite period of time when COVID-19 guidelines and measures were
institutionalized in March 2020 by virtue of Republic Act No. 11469 (Bayanhan to Heal as

One Act). However, it is also clear that significant national sectors have been adversely

affected by the impeded activities. For instance, the educational system underwent a
transition from traditional teaching methods to flexible arrangements for all educational

levels. In higher education institutions where faculty are mandated to do not only
instruction but also research, extension, and production, activities relevant to such

functions were put into hold.
However, the pandemic did not hinder the faculty of the School of Engineering and

Technology-Dumingag Campus from doing research and extension activities despite

mobility restrictions. They actively took part in helping combat Covid-19 and by devising
a potential technological and innovative solution to lessen human contact and promote

social/physical distancing in every checkpoint set by the LGU. This is in support to the
declaration of an Enhance Community Quarantine in the whole province of Zamboanga

del Sur. The easy-to-build disinfection structure is estimated to cost less than Php 6,000
for its materials, mainly composed of a tent, plastic cover, matting, microcontrollers,

sensors and actuators. It is estimated that the structure is completed in one-and-a half

days. The tents are easy to assemble and can be placed in different locations. Its main
goal is to create "sanitation corridors" which local government can easily produce.

Goals and Objectives

Goal: To utilize the output on the research conducted which may help the

frontliners assigned in the checkpoints identified in the different borders of every
municipality to at least make their work easier and by promoting a safer and secure

procedure in sanitizing and disinfecting persons coming in and out of the municipality.
Objectives:

• To provide an automatic misting system for sanitation and disinfection;

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