Aeris™ Proven to Eliminate COVID 19 in One Hour

Spectra Systems Corporation launched its novel approach to cleaning soiled banknotes with the launch of its Aeris™ system in 2014 (See CN July 2014). With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing widespread publicity that banknotes were, or could be, one of the ways in which it was being spread, the industry looked for both solutions to providing clean banknotes as well as testing to prove that banknotes were not transmitting the virus.

Spectra Systems sought to prove that the Aeris machine, as well as cleaning banknotes, was also effective in deactivating the COVID-19 virus and any other viruses on banknotes at the same time. To do so it engaged the independent, world renowned National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) of Boston University to carry out work to validate its assumption.