Zeppo,
Your post gave me an idea - for the cruise ship industry. 'Decontamination centers' could be established at major cruise line ports - stocked with dozens of Asepticsure machines (and specially trained decontamination teams). Cruise lines could schedule a 'decontamination / sterilization day' (or overnight) monthly or quarterly (or when an outbreak occurs). A specially trained team equipped with 50 units could sterilze 100s of staterooms and kitchen/dining facilities overnight. If treatment of an entire ship is not completed between cruise departures, the remaining staterooms could be completed the following week when the ship is back in port. Ships would dock at the decontamination center (in close proximity to their own docks) - or the decontamination team could be completely mobile with all machines in trucks that arrive at the cruise line's docks as needed to service their ships as they arrive in port - while the ship's crew is resupplying/ refueling, etc.
At a major cruise ship terminal these teams could be kept very busy (24/7). Cruise lines would save on the capital expenditure for large numbers of machines (except for a few machines they purchase or lease and keep on board for emergency) needed to quickly decontaminate an entire ship. Cruise lines could be set up on an annual servicing contract - maybe paying by the number of rooms treated.
Major Cruise lines: Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Cunard, Norwegian, Disney, Celebrity, Princess, Holland America, Viking . . . to name a few. (Royal Caribbean alone has 45 ships, Carnival has 25 ships)
I haven't really crunched the numbers, but do the math.
Example: If each machine can treat 1 stateroom per hour - a team (10 technicians per shift) with 50 machines (leapfrogging staterooms) could service 1000 staterooms (20 rooms each machine per 24 hr period) @ $100 each = ($100,00 per hour) = $36 million per year for EACH decontamination center. The machines would pay for themselves in a few months. Ten such centers around the world (Miami, Port Canaveral, Ft. Lauderdale, New York, Athens, Venice, Rome, Barcelona, Southhampton, Australia, Copenhagen/Stockholm, L.A., Seattle/Vancouver . . . ) = $360 million annual revenues.
The same business model (mobile decontamination teams) might be employed for hospitals/arenas/stadiums in major population centers
It seems an idea worth exploring. Other ideas?
AI
