Press a button for water in a clean steel glass. Return it, and it’s disinfected for the next person.
GILAS concept illustration. Studio photography coming soon.
Overview
At a school water point, a hospital waiting area or a wedding counter, people get one of two things: a plastic tumbler that is thrown away a minute later, or a shared tumbler rinsed in a bucket, if it is rinsed at all. One creates mountains of waste. The other spreads germs among the people who can least afford to get sick.
GILAS removes that trade-off. Press a button and it fills a sanitised steel glass with drinking water, without anyone touching a tap. When the glass comes back, GILAS sprays it with a biodegradable solution, cleans it with ultrasound and disinfects it with UV-C light, so it is ready for the next person in about a minute.
Dispensing and cleaning happen in one closed loop, in one unit. There’s no back-of-house washing, no stack of plastic tumblers and no shared glass doing the rounds, from a classroom corridor to a wedding tent.
Built for vulnerable places
Supports the water and hygiene criteria of the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar.
GILAS for schoolsSupports the hygiene, infection-control and waste goals scored by Kayakalp and NABH.
For drinking glasses in non-clinical areas only. GILAS is not a medical device and does not replace clinical sterilization or biomedical-waste procedures.
GILAS for hospitals & clinicsIdeal for weddings, conferences, langars and pilgrimage routes.
GILAS for events & weddingsFeeds BRSR and CSR reporting with real usage data.
GILAS for workplacesHow it works
Press a button and a sanitised steel glass fills with drinking water.
Drink, then place the glass back into GILAS.
Spray wash, ultrasonic cleaning and UV-C disinfection, then it’s ready again.
High-pressure nozzles spray a biodegradable alkaline solution (pH 9.5–10.5) that dissolves sugars and organic residue, emulsifies oils and loosens mineral deposits.
Removes the visible mess (food, juice, oils, lip marks) without harsh chemicals.
Technical specifications
22 specifications shown
| Performance | Full cycle time | ~60 seconds | Claimed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | Throughput | 4–6 glasses per minute, continuous | Claimed |
| Performance | Event scale | 100 to 1,000+ attendees | Claimed |
| Cleaning | Stage 1 | Biodegradable alkaline spray, pH 9.5–10.5 | Claimed |
| Cleaning | Stage 2 | 40 kHz ultrasonic cavitation | Claimed |
| Cleaning | Stage 3 | 254 nm UV-C, 360° chamber | Claimed |
| Cleaning | Pathogen reduction | 99.9% | Claimed |
| Water & power | Water per cycle | ~100 ml | Claimed |
| Water & power | Water vs. commercial dishwasher | ~80% less | Claimed |
| Water & power | Energy vs. commercial dishwasher | ~50% less | Claimed |
| Dispensing | Water dispensing | Contact-free, push-button, into a sanitised steel glass | Design target |
| Dispensing | Drinking-water source | Refillable tank or supply connection, depending on variant | To be confirmed |
| Dispensing | Water treatment | None. GILAS dispenses water that is already safe to drink | Design target |
| Water & power | Plumbing | Not needed for the portable variant. Sealed cleaning-solution tank and waste reservoir | Design target |
| Water & power | Power supply | Standard wall socket | Design target |
| Water & power | Rated power | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Design | Dimensions (W × H × D) | ~26 × 32 × 19 cm | Design target |
| Design | Weight | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Design | Operation | Push-button dispensing; cleaning starts automatically when a glass is returned | Design target |
| Design | Materials | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Safety | Power-loss protection | Supercapacitor backup for safe shutdown | Design target |
| Safety | UV-C exposure | Sealed chamber; lamps active only when closed | Design target |
Safety & certifications
Electrical safety certification for sale in India.
EU safety, health and environmental requirements.
North American electrical and fire safety.
US limits on electromagnetic interference.
Materials safe for contact with drinking glasses.
Protected against splashing water from any direction.
See it work
Impact calculator
Plastic
Hygiene
Money
CO₂e breakdown: 2 t from making tumblers + 7 kg from disposal (dumped or landfilled) − 1.3 t for GILAS washing = 722 kg avoided.
A fresh plastic tumbler is hygienic but single-use; GILAS keeps every drink in a cleaned, disinfected glass without the waste. GILAS would use about 26,400 litres of water a year to clean these glasses. This is an estimate, not a guarantee of savings or health outcomes. Plastic CO₂e uses published factors; the GILAS wash figures are placeholders until our lifecycle assessment and hygiene validation are complete.
Share this estimate
Tumblers per year = guests × drinks per guest × events per year (events), or people × drinks per person per day × days open per year: 220 for schools, 365 for hospitals, and the working days you enter for offices (default 250). You choose what share of those drinks are served today in new plastic tumblers; the rest are assumed to come in shared glasses washed by hand.
Plastic waste = tumblers × the tumbler weight you pick (default 3 g).
Hygiene: every drink is served in a glass that GILAS has spray-washed, ultrasonically cleaned and UV-C disinfected, a cycle designed to cut pathogens by 99.9% (independent validation under way). Shared-glass reuses replaced = drinks served in shared glasses today. Staff hours freed = those drinks × hand-washing seconds per glass ÷ 3,600. We do not estimate illnesses avoided, because that depends on many factors we can’t measure.
CO₂e avoided = plastic weight × (making factor + disposal factor) − tumblers × 0.005 kg per GILAS wash. Making factors, including forming into a product, are 2.569 kg CO₂e per kg for PP, 4.367 kg CO₂e per kg for PS, 3.855 kg CO₂e per kg for PET; landfill is 0.0089 and recycling 0.0064 kg CO₂e per kg, from the UK Government GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting 2024 (DESNZ). Burning releases the carbon in the plastic as CO₂: 3.14 kg per kg for PP, 3.38 kg per kg for PS, 2.29 kg per kg for PET (from each plastic’s carbon content; open burning also releases other pollutants not counted here). We give no credit for recycling, and treat GILAS washing and hand-washing of shared glasses as equal, so shared-glass drinks add no CO₂e either way. The GILAS wash figure is a placeholder until we measure it.
Savings = tumblers × (your tumbler cost, default ₹2, − ₹0.3 per GILAS wash) + staff hours freed × your staff cost per hour − shared-glass drinks × ₹0.3 per GILAS wash. This excludes the cost of buying, leasing or renting GILAS and of the GILAS glasses.
Payback = the GILAS price you enter ÷ monthly savings. It is shown only when you enter a price, and ignores maintenance, consumables and financing.
Water = tumblers × 100 ml per cycle (claimed, pending validation).
Results are rounded to whole numbers. The emission and cost factors are placeholder assumptions that will be replaced by figures from an independent lifecycle assessment. Real-world results depend on your cups, electricity source and how often glasses are reused.
In their words
“Our children used to share two tumblers at the water point. Now every child gets a clean glass, and there are no plastic cups in the playground.”
School Principal
Government upper-primary school
Sample testimonial
“Plastic cups were piling up in our OPD waiting area. GILAS gave us a clean, visible drinking-water point our assessors noticed.”
Hospital Administrator
District hospital
Sample testimonial
“Eight hundred wedding guests, zero plastic tumblers, and nobody washing glasses in a bucket behind the tent.”
Event Planner
Wedding and events agency
Sample testimonial
Pricing
Yes. GILAS is a contact-free water dispenser and glass cleaner in one unit. Press a button and it fills a sanitised steel glass with drinking water; return the glass and it is cleaned and disinfected for the next person.
No. GILAS dispenses drinking water but does not purify it, so it must be filled from, or connected to, water that is already safe to drink.
Depending on the variant, from a refillable tank in the unit or a connection to your existing drinking-water supply. We’ll recommend the right option for your site.
A shared tumbler at a water point is usually rinsed in a bucket, if at all, then handed to the next person. GILAS puts every glass through a spray wash, ultrasonic cleaning and UV-C disinfection before it is reused, designed to cut pathogens by 99.9%. Independent validation of that figure is under way.
GILAS cleans and disinfects. We will only use the word “sterilized” if third-party validation supports it.
Yes, for drinking glasses in non-clinical areas such as OPD waiting rooms, wards, canteens and staff rooms. GILAS is not a medical device and does not replace clinical sterilization of instruments or biomedical-waste procedures.
The UV-C lamps sit inside a sealed chamber and switch on only when it is closed, so nobody is exposed. The cleaning solution is biodegradable and held in a sealed tank. We will confirm placement and supervision guidance for schools before launch.
GILAS is designed around its own double-walled stainless-steel glass, engraved with the GILAS mark. Steel doesn’t shatter in a school corridor or a crowded event. Ask us how many glasses you’ll need.
GILAS is designed for a full three-stage cycle of about 60 seconds per glass. Independent testing of cycle time is under way, and we will publish the results.
Each unit is designed to clean 4–6 glasses a minute continuously. For schools, hospitals and large events we will recommend a number of units based on how many people drink at peak times.
Not for the portable variant. Cleaning solution and wastewater are held in sealed tanks inside the unit that you refill and empty between sessions, and it runs from a standard wall socket. Some variants can connect to a drinking-water supply.
About 100 ml per cycle, by design. That is roughly 80% less than a commercial dishwasher per glass, based on the founders’ figures. Independent verification is pending.
No. People press a button to get water in a clean glass, then put the glass back, which starts the cleaning cycle automatically. Staff only refill water and solution and empty the waste tank.
Yes. Companies can fund GILAS units for government schools or public hospitals as a CSR project, and we can bundle maintenance and consumables. Contact us to plan a programme.
Pricing depends on whether you buy, lease or rent and how many units you need. Request a quote and we will reply within two business days.
GILAS is currently in the certification process. We are pursuing BIS for India, plus CE, UL, FCC, food-contact and IPX4 marks for other markets.
Bring GILAS to your school, hospital or event, or see it working in a 15-minute call.
