Making automated room disinfection available to the general public and preferably as soon as possible was the question.
Intense collaboration - often from a distance - plus short iteration rounds enabled us to go from an acute need to a marketable product in three months. A task that demanded ingenuity and speed. Just what we get excited about here.
Clean, safe spaces to meet in. Thanks to the Neboxx. The Neboxx is a nebulizer of disinfectant liquid. It disperses an ultra fine mist, thus disinfecting surfaces quickly and safely. The compact product has a measured and thoughtful design and is operated via an intuitive app.
The various solutions had only just been conceived & sketched or there our technical CAD draftsmen were already getting to work. Some principles were quickly drawn out to put our 3D printers to work.
We switch so quickly from initial sketches to prototypes to test our engineers' solutions. How does the material react? How does the fluid move through the object? How do volumes relate to each other. You can only verify something like that with physical models.
The fact that we included production techniques in the design from the beginning helped ensure that we could deliver the first production pieces 3 months later. Along with years of experience that enabled the team to make quick decisions.
Atomizing had already been mastered by Savic Group, but once you change the liquid, issues of diffusion, durability and corrosion crop up. Additional hurdles you get when shifting from industrial scale to meeting rooms and classrooms.
Biggest challenge? The temperature. The circuit boards got too hot in the first prototypes, so cooling had to be provided, but then it takes up space and the material in which you make it must be resistant to alcohol...Many question marks that we answer with a small piece of aluminum. Net placed near the cooling elements, cut, not cast,which makes the alloy more resistant to rising temperatures. Simple and ingenious.
The short lead time of this project required us to work with all parties involved simultaneously - designers, engineers, UX designers and developers - every step of the way. -But in reality, we simply went through the circle of trial and error at speed, with a solid and exceptionally well thought-out product that could go into production after three months.
The design does its job, technically we should not expect any more surprises, the commercial part is well thought out and production is running.
