Innovations
Citizen science-based remote parenting support for lifelong health during COVID-19 lockdown and beyond
Violence in families, including violence against children, and women are increasing in an alarming rate during COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown. This initiative will implement and evaluate parenting information dissemination, and interactive learning via facilitated parent-support group-based…
Aer-o-cure UV-C Mini
The UV-C MINI is a light commercial unit, perfect
for public spaces, office, home or any waiting area.
It’s designed to sanitize hand held items such as cellphones,
keys, wallets and even a PPE mask within 30
seconds using effective UV-C Ultraviolet technology.
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Sanitise-O-Ring. Sanitizer dispensing bangle.
The Sanititise-O-Ring is a wearable sanitizer dispensing bangle.
It's affordability and ease-of-use makes it perfect for use by school children, health workers, general workers and the public.
It is mandatory to have sanitizer at the entrance of shops, but what about other…
N95 Type Face Mask
Providing Face Masks for front line workers in the fight against COVID-19.
TjopTjop - digital health screening data collection, storage, analysis and reporting
TjopTjop is a mobile app developed by the, NWU Faculty of Engineering Medical Device Development and Commercialisation group, to assist schools, businesses, and other institutions to easily collect and store health screening information from students, pupils, staff and clients. It saves time and…
Design novel hemp composite PPEs and a novel ARV Drug to treat COVID-19 disease
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a number of deaths globally. In response to the pandemic we have used all our resources to assist by firstly utilizing computer based drug target interactions (DTI) predictions to identify FDA approved Drugs which binds to the active pocket of…
COVID-19 Screening
This is a screening portal in seven languages (the user can select the language based on his/her preference) for screening of COVID-19. The languages are English, isiZulu, Tshivenda, Swahili, Sesotho sa Leboa/Sepedi, Afrikkans and Igbo. The questionnaire has received the ethical clearance of the…
Development of Filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) filtering performance testing test rig
The present research focuses on developing a filter performance testing competency of filtering face-piece respirator’s (FFR) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). This activity is in response to the expected shortage of medical personal protective equipment (PPE) related to the spread of…
All-in-one Temperature Scanner, Sanitizer, and Human Counter
The video for our product can be found at this Youtube link : https://youtu.be/60uerQU9Sqc
This is a digital tool that keeps count of all people that walk in and out of a building while ensuring that all persons that enter the building adhere to all Covid-19 safety precautions…
COVID-19 Real time Contact Tracing app
My innovation gathers real time data of interactions and contact between people as they go about their daily lives. This information is stored in a secure server used by the medical department to protect identity.
When a person who has this app running on their smart phone is tested…
UCT ViZAR
The UCT ViZAR is a comfortable, disposable face shield that has followed a user-centric design approach to meet all of the needs of the wearer.
The soft profiled foam brow allows for the visor to sit against the forehead while not irritating the skin. This also allows for a space…