Ultrasound surface cleaning is an eco-friendly technology compared to other conventional cleaning methods using wiper blades, water-jets, pressured-air and so on. The savings on the amount of water, energy and toxic detergent are significant by the cleaning technology itself.
The minimum volume addition of ultrasound cleaning system can replace high pressure water-jet systems with big water tanks or air-compressor systems including highly durable nozzles. In addition, the existing defrost heating system with heat element at the back side of the glass could also be replaced by the ‘echovista’ ultrasound system. Potential maintenance could be minimised due to its design involving no mechanical moving parts.
As above, ultrasound surface cleaning is already a resource saving technology. However, the smart auto-cleaning feature being developed by ‘echovista’ can make this technology much greener, without any additional mechanical or optical sensing parts. This transceiver based smart auto-cleaning is composed of auto-detection and feedback cleaning. In easier word, finding out the kinds of contaminants and cleaning based on the findings. Low levels of monitoring signal between transceivers updates the ultrasound surface cleaning system with the real-time status of the surface. When the transceivers detect the contaminants possibly with some amount of liquid, the feedback cleaning function operates the appropriate driving signal before they dry or go into cementation process. Depending on the status of surface contaminants, smart auto-cleaning can operate ultrasound cleaning only or ultrasound cleaning combined with our moistener.
For example, if a car happens to have the insect’s body fluid or mud on the surface of optical sensors, the best cleaning performance can be achieved at the moment when the contamination happens while those contaminants have a form of a liquid mixture before cementation procedure starts. Ultrasound surface cleaning with the smart auto-cleaning feature cleans the contaminants at the best possible moment in terms of cleaning performance, as well as resource saving.
