Malaysia UV LED street lights can catch mosquitoes

University of Malaya scientists use solar panels and light mosquito easily with the principles of human odor to attract, creating a mosquito energy saving LED street lights. Not only against the local severe dengue epidemic, but also the success of public health and make use of renewable energy power generation combined.

Scientists Chong Wen Tong in order to combat local dengue disease, developed a mosquito traps with LED street lights, the power source is the use of solar energy and wind power.

Chong said the device is the use of Mosquitoes like to characteristics of the human odor trap fooled, but also attract mosquitoes susceptible to ultraviolet light, the system is also integrated with a weak UV absorption fan.

UV light through the titanium dioxide photocatalyst reactor trap above the reaction to produce, and then produce human exhaled carbon dioxide, wait until after the mosquitoes were successful trapping, the fan will be sucked reach the bottom of the net, and therefore can not escape.

In addition, in order to avoid shading effects and make energy maximization collection, solar panels on top of the system design, the vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) by the increase of wind speed omnidirectional deflector (Omni-Directional Guide Vane; ODGV) coated, light and circuit design at the top for areas prone to waterlogging use.

TheGuardian pointed out, there are eight lights arranged in the school campus and downtown Kuala Lumpur and other places, and the research team and a company to complete the licensing agreement, the first edition of lights ready to be commercialized.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out that Malaysia dengue epidemic rise in 2015 to 19%, reporting the case of 96 000, and the same year dengue deaths are also an increasing trend from 2014 to November, 162 people had increased to 282 people .