SWACHH RENA: Affordable Indoor Air Cleaner Retrofit

Key Features

  • Affordable Indoor Air Cleaner Retrofit: Convert your existing ceiling fan to an air purifier by attaching Rena.
  • Summer & winter operation - The device reduces air circulation in winter and barely affects it in summer.
  • Fully biodegradable filter options.
  • Washable filters for low operation cost.
  • Low total cost of ownership.
  • Lowers the cost of filter replacement in conventional powered air purifiers.
  • Optional odour and gas contaminant control via activated carbon coated filters.

Specifications

  • Rena is a retrofit that can convert most ceiling fans into an affordable air purifier; removes PM2.5 allergens (Pollen), Dust, airborne pathogens.
  • As most households in India already have ceiling fans this makes the total cost of ownership very low.
  • Rena has a base or adapter that is placed on each of the blades of a fan. Removable filters are then latched onto the base which are either washable or single use fine filters. Filter has winter and summer modes of operation.
  • The filters need to be replaced in 1-8 weeks depending on ambient pollution levels.

Deployment Scenarios

Ideal deployment scenarios include low / medium income households, schools, colleges and offices and primary healthcare centres protecting children, elderly and patients from air pollution, airborne pathogens that cause diseases like COVID19 and other biological pollutants including allergens like pollen, fungal spores etc.

Project SAMEER Getting Media Attention

The Times of India

IIT-Delhi, central initiative try steps to curb air pollution:

DRIIV and IIT-Delhi have initiated a pilot project to keep pollution under control, named SAMEER (Solution for Air-pollution Mitigation through Engagement engineering and Research), the project will be active from November 2022 to February 2023... read more

The New Indian

DRIIV, IIT Delhi Join Hands To Tackle Air Pollution:

In a first-of-its-kind initiative of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, DRIIV will conduct a technology-based pilot project called Project SAMEER (Solutions for Air-Pollution Mitigation through Engagement, Engineering, and Research) in Delhi-NCR... read more

Freepress Journal

IIT Delhi, DRIIV collaborate to control air-pollution levels in Delhi-NCR region:

A technology pilot - Project SAMEER (Solutions for Air-pollution Mitigation through Engagement, Engineering, and Research) will bring together local Government authorities, IIT Delhi researchers, tech startups, corporates, NGOs and communities to collectively address the air pollution menace in the winter months... read more

Shiksha

IIT Delhi, DRIIV collaborate to tackle air pollution in Delhi-NCR:

Prof Sagnik Dey, IIT Delhi, said "Air pollution is the largest environmental and health concern in India…..as part of project SAMEER, they would explore the impact of various air pollution mitigation technologies at hotspots of Delhi-NCR and promote clean air practices"... read more

The Print

Armed with science & tech solutions, govt & IIT-Delhi come together to fight air pollution:

Armed with science & tech solutions, govt & IIT-Delhi come together to fight air pollution…Office of Principal Scientific Advisor and IIT are working with tech & industry partners to monitor the city's AQI. Their pilot project will run in Delhi NCR from Nov '22 to Feb '23... read more

BlitzIndia

Doctors for Clean Air and Climate Action (Haryana Chapter) & City Action Group Gurugram launched:

Ms. Shipra Misra, CEO, CKIC-DRIIV said DRIIV is bringing academic institutes such as IITs, NGOs, corporates, government bodies such as GMDA, MCG, Haryana Pollution Control Board and all other stakeholders together to address these issues, starting with Gurugram as a pilot... read more

Dainik Jagran