GB2500168A

GB2500168A - A cleaning device for identifying microscopic objects

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Publication number: GB2500168A
Application number: GB1200673.0A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Cosmos Wathingira Ngumi
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2012-01-14
Filing date: 2012-01-14
Publication date: 2013-09-18
Also published as: GB201200673D0

Abstract

A cleaning device, such as a vacuum cleaner, which has a device for identifying microscopic objects e.g. micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi; and a telemetric device for transmitting and receiving data via a wireless signal so that the microscopic object identifying device can collect information and the telemetric device transfers the information away from body of the cleaning device.

Description

TITLE: AN AUTOMATED METHOD AND PROCESS FOR MICROSCOPIC SUBSTANCE IDENTIFYING DEVICE WORKING WITHIN ANY

CLEANING DEVICE

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION-FIELD OF INVENTION

This invention relates to living and non-living microscopic substance identifying apparatuses and also to conventional surface cleaning apparatus, more particularly and not construed to, cleaning apparatus for extended surfaces such as floor surfaces and cleaning devices working within various machinery in the domestic, industrial and commercial markets but also including human and animal medical healthmaintenance cleaning devices.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION-PRIOR ART

The present invention relates to microscopic substance identifying apparatuses and surface cleaning apparatuses. Microscopic substance identifying devices are known.

Most microscopic substance identifying apparatuses are mainly used in the fields they are destined for with the purpose of working as individual tool being used by an individual user for a specific reason. In particular, microscopic substance identifying apparatuses mainly work as individual or lone data collecting apparatuses. The present invention intends to amalgamate data collected by individual microscopic substance identifying apparatuses. The present invention also intends to introduce microscopic substance identifying apparatuses to any cleaning device. Below is an introductory explanation of why there is presently a need for a new robust and economically viable tool and system for tracking down and identifying living and non-living microscopic substances in the domestic and industrial backgrounds. The definitions of some of the terms used frequently in this patent disclosure are hereby described.

The term 'surface-borne microbes' as used herein refers broadly to any disease transmitting micro-organisms and especially those that cause bacterial viral and fungal diseases and maladies to humans, animals and plants, and such microbes being supported upon any extended surface such as a floor surface, table surface, wall surface, ceiling surface and many others that requires frequent cleaning to rid it off such and other microbes, thereby keeping such surfaces in a hygienic or sterile condition.

The term 'telemetric' refers to the process of exchange of information via electrical transceiver devices configured to send and receive data via a wireless signal to and from a remote location. Such devices may use radio signals or waves, microwaves, radar, infrared, Wi-Fi, GPS transmission, electronic protocol addresses-internet etc., to transmit and receive data wirelessly. ^

The term 'central-hub' refers to a centralised digital microbial signature repository data mart for carrying out microbial comparative and processing tasks within a mainframe computer system working in a network where collected sample information regarding the microbial

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state of various surface(s) is telemetrically converged, processed and stored. The information may be sent telemetrically via radio waves, microwaves, the internet, satellite etc. The stored digitized sample information collected from various remote sources far and wide may then be used lo create an accumulative microbe digital database for specific analytical and investigatory purposes and target remedial feedback information is relayed or provided back to the relevant party or parties. A central-hub may be a basic or general computer system with input-output, and memory storage and processing capabilities, and the computer system having ways to telecommunicate such information to and fro, between different types of communication devices from far and wide locations. A central-hub may therefore be operating locally in a domestic house as a personal portable device or as conventional computer system(s) where collected information regarding the microbial state of the surface of a home is converged, or other premises is analysed and processed and a feedback provided back to the source of the analysed sample. A central-hub may be based in a commercial firm or even at a wider scope such as a regional central-hub for a network of related and or unrelated commercial firms and institutions, for example; a regional central-hub for a surface monitoring network between a hospital and a cleaning agent manufacturer, a doctor and domestic home; a countrywide central-hub fpr conglomeration of various firms of identical or different backgrounds; a global central-hub for a conglomeration of various firms of identical or different backgrounds and from different climatic and geographic zones. Non-microbial particle substances may also be processed and analysed at a central-hub network framework in the same way. The central-hub may also be referred to as a multifaceted data mart supercomputer, master computer or server.

CLEANING SURFACE-BORNE MICROBES

Cleaning is the broadest and most widespread activity performed around the entire world by all forms of living things. Thus, the cleaning industry is one of the most robust few areas of industry least affected by the economic recession because it has a major advantage over most other industries as buildup of dirt never stops. The cleaning industry sector is an essential commodity and regardless of economic set-backs, clean hospitals, clean homes, clean schools, supermarkets, restaurants, cars, airports, offices, streets, trains and among others are always need regular cleaning, making the market recession-resistant. Therefore, maintaining standards of hygiene to protect against maladies caused by infection contributes towards wider health outcomes and benefits by reducing unnecessary morbidity and mortality. With the current health threats and emerging contagious diseases, the importance of hygiene is becoming more apparent as it is no longer a case of just keeping the surfaces of objects looking clean, but for the health of a community, society and the entire nation. Because microbial substances are an integrated part of majority of atmospherically exposed objects requiring cleaning worldwide. However, it is a fact well known that even after thoroughly cleaning a surface to the satisfaction of the eye does not mean that the surface is free from microscopic substances. Thus, in many fields of endeavour, sanitizing surfaces is an often overlooked yet critical component of breaking the cycle of the transmission of infection. Therefore, it is important to be able to determine whether or not surfaces are contaminated

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with hazardous microbes such as bacteria or the like. Some main examples of surfaces in such various diverse fields may include; the food processing industry, the medical field and public health services, and the field of educational institutions. Also,due to and among other factors such as the advent and steep rise of affordable mass human and produce transport across many climatic and geographic zones, microbial circulation and dissemination has become highly accelerated. Thus, the most probable place that majority of microbial substances are likely to be found precipitated onto from a host reservoir is on the lowest surfaces such as floor level, upholstery stmts, handles etc. Law enforcement agencies and regulators may also monitor and detect for signs of virulent living and non-living microscopic substances for bioterrorism and explosives.Thus, it is desirable to continuously monitor or screen the populations of microbes existing on surfaces of particular locations that need to be maintained in a sterile status. Microbial detection and quantification is therefore essential in order to identify the types of microbes present or absent on the surfaces of an area or on an object. For example, from a medical standpoint, it is important to know which microbes are causing disease, so that the appropriate treatment can be used. Thus, it is not only critical to be able to identify microbial contamination and activity in locations such as medical facilities, food processing plants, agricultural farms, dairy farms, hog farms and broiler flock farms, schools and colleges, it is also as paramount to do the same monitoring of microbial activities in the general domestic homes, public eating houses, public swimming pools, towns, rivers, beaches, port entry points etc., so that appropriate steps are undertaken to purge the location of dangerous microbes by infection hazard control before an outbreak occurrence or avoidance. There are a number of reasons for the need to detect and quantify microbial elements, specifically to detect and identity harmful microbes on objects and locations such as those related to the medical and public health field and the food processing industry. Bioscientific personnel and bioresearchers need to know the severity and genetic identity of the microbe they are dealing with in order to find a rapid solution, and must be able to confirm that specimens and culture are not contaminated. However, despite the many scientific advances in microbial studies, bioresearchers have only identified a small fraction of the genetic component of common hazard microbes. Thusly, genetic analysis for many disease causing microbes are only developed on the basis of 'until when/or after the microbe becomes a hazard' and may by then have already become or caused irreversible destruction to man, flora and or fauna. Understandably, there is limited scientific information about known and unknown emergent and re-emerging microbes that may be hazardous to man, flora and fauna in the future, thus there is an urgent needed for an inexpensive global microbial sample data collecting device and system that shall help bioresearchers to rapidly translate microbe genome information for remedial purposes to man, animals and plants before any further microbial budding developments and outbreak occurs.

Thereto, it is evident that it's vital to identify, monitor and quantify the presence or absence of such microbes on level surfaces and whether the presence of such microbes poses a danger to humans, flora and fauna. For example, where multitudes of people co-exist e.g., in hospitals, ambulances, case operating rooms or theatres, nursing homes, laboratories, holiday

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cruise ships liners and seaports, public waiting areas, stadiums, trains, gyms and public swimming pools, food processing plants, aeroplanes and airports, nurseries, schools and lavatories of all the above are places where disease-causing bacteria, fungus and viruses are known to colonize. Some of these places are occasionally plagued by outbreaks of dangerous multidrug resistant microbes such as salmonella, legionella, MRSA, E.coli, norovirus, staphylococcus, Cryptosporidium, gastrointestinal and several Campylobacter and ailments with occasional devastating consequences. Despite the availability of effective antimicrobials, some and other infections above continue to cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Early detection of the existence of the propagation of these microorganisms will aid in their eradication solution. Presently, epidemic intelligence and reconnaissance operations after an outbreak is undertaken from a wide range of formal and informal sources such as general departments of health, institutes of public health, veterinary health, nongovernmental organizations and rumours. A major disadvantage of the some of these methods is that the pathogen is already matured and infecting victims. For instance, on the22nd September 2009, a new report regarding the pandemic flu released by the US Institute of Medicine, National Research Council and USA1D expressed that a better coordinated global system is needed to improve prevention detection and responses to outbreaks of infectious diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans. Further, an executive director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges said "All too often, our reaction to these outbreaks has been to try containing a wildfire after it has gotten out of control We need a system that enables us to prevent the conditions for these disease flare-ups to occur in the first place and to spot them earlier when we can take more effective and measure actions to limit the damage." Also, on the 29th December 2009, media reported that the head of the of the World Health Organisation said that continued vigilance of H1N1 flu pandemic is required against the virus which can still mutate. Thus, in order to keep in line with the spirit of this"disclosure, to monitor microbial activity in any surface, it is worthy to begin looking from the very grassroots, base or ground level surface where all humans and their pets or domesticated animals dwell and interact via walk, work, play and travel on, essentially in public health care centres, food production and processing plants-generally everywhere that there is a surface where human beings inhabit upon.

Gathering and amalgamating regularly updated queued-processed-stored information collected from these ground or floor levels can provide a database and a viable template for the purpose and prospect of broadly monitoring, analysing and trailing the occurrence of dangerous microbes, suspicious powders, thereby, reduce or eliminating current methods of theoretical speculations and inquiries after the discovery and transmission of dangerous microbes has already matured and taken place or after the occurrence of the result intended for a suspicious powder or liquid. Information gathered from these floor levels would provide the possibility of studying and discovering dangerous microbial activity and developments in embryonic stages and quantities thus allowing for rapid countermeasures to be implemented before an impending result is tangible.

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BACKGROUND OF INVENTION—OBJECT AND ADVANTAGES Thus, the most possible and inexpensive way of carrying out floor-level monitoring and quantification of the presence or absence'Sf dangerous microbial elements and above suspicious elements on a floor surface of a location or premises may be by way of retrofitting current cleaning apparatus; or fitting new cleaning devices in the domestic, commercial and industrial markets with miniaturised microbial substance identifying and quantification and analysing instruments or microbial screening devices.

Although portable microbial quantification and analysing instruments or microbial screening devices exist, and many generating results in only a few minutes, they generally operate separately or individually for various diverse purposes and different institutions, fields and backgrounds. A main object of the bacteriological screening aspect of this patent disclosure herein is to set up a system whereby individual portable microbial quantification and analysing instruments or microbial screening devices can be fitted inside surface cleaning apparatus such as the general vacuum cleaner; and the microbial screening device configured to work along the cleaning apparatus taking microbial surface sample data of the surface being cleaned by the cleaning apparatus; tfien the microbial screening device being further configured to analyse and communicate the collected digitized microbial surface sample data wirelessly or telemetrically (for example, using ground wave radio waves) to a remote data processing and storage computer system or a central-hub so that various separate data findings and previous data findings of floor surfaces from various individual portable microbial quantification and analysing instruments or microbial screening devices working separately in various cleaning apparatus from afar can be stored into a central database or central-hub for comparative computerization and further analysis and dissemination. The purpose of the database is to consolidate such separate data findings of floor surfaces sourced from various individual portable microbial quantification and analysing instruments or microbial screening devices working from a vast array of floor surfaces from different domestic and industrial backgrounds from far and wide geographical regions and intercontinental climatic zones in order to be continuously watched, comparatively analysed and trailed effortlessly and cheaply, for the purpose of comprehensively studying and trailing microbial trends, molecular, genomic traits, cladistics and circulations around a certain region, county, country or globally before an outbreak occurs.

New microchip developments, due to the rapid pace of advancement and miniaturisation or reduction in scale and high output performance of the microchip technology, it may now be possible to cheaply and easily allow the incorporation of a portable miniature microbial screening device to function within, and, or in conjunction with a surface cleaning device such as the cleaning device. Therefore, since the most common places that microbes are most likely to be found upon globally are on flat or the lowest level surfaces such as floors, pavement surfaces in homes, offices, shopping mall, lavatory areas, flat areas of the interiors of buildings e.g., handrails, worktop surfaces and all floors in general, and cooking tables and eating tables and beds, where human beings and animals interact and surrounding air, it may

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be essential to incorporate a microbial screening device to operate in conjunction with any cleaning device in order to aid in monitoring the presence or absence of dangerous microbes and quantities thereof on various communal low level surfaces which will always be cleaned. Also, since the shape of microbial cells or signatures are of fundamental importance in the classification and identification of microbes, and that the majority of microbial cells come in three basic shapes, specifically round, rod, or spiral shaped, it may be possible to store such characteristics, for example DNA-barcode of all (and emerging) microbes in the vast memory of the modern miniaturized microchip of the microbial screening device so that when such microbes are encountered on the surface, (liquid or air) being cleaned, such microbes may be identified quickly through a method such as comparative selection. Additionally, since microbes may display a remarkable variety of (changing) forms when viewed microscopically, other factors such as microbe DNA-coding/DNA-barcoding, microbe chemical emissions or quantities of consumed chemicals may be digitally coded and pre-stored for algorithm processing within the memory of the microchip working in the microbial screening device of the cleaning device herein during a cleaning operation.

Continuous monitoring of microbial levels in hospital surfaces and floors surfaces, for example, would show at what time during the day or night hostile microorganisms became present. Correlating this information with information as to which patient, visiting guest(s) or worker that was present at that time will permit the problem to be rapidly narrowed down and solved. An advantage of monitoring microbes in hospitals ensures that virulent nosocomial infections are avoided. Another advantage is that early correlation of such information gathered from the microbial screening device within the cleaning device described herein would help bioresearchers to study early aspects such as pathogenetic, genomic, cladistics variances, genetic segregants etc., of known or unknown emerging or re-emerging microbe thereby allowing for the quicker discovery of remedial implementation before further development for an outbreak occurrence. Therefore, it is paramount that a microbial screening device for continuously monitoring, detecting and recording the existence of microbes and any other substances in a liquid or gaseous or biofilm medium collected from a cleaning surface by the surface cleaning device at all times. The microbial screening device may be capable of detecting a wide range of microbes and non-microbial elements via toxicity analysis and may be adaptable to a wide range of other monitoring conditions, such as olfactory smelling of ignitable liquids and gases. The microbial screening device may be made of a material and construction which is simple and inexpensive to build, and be reliable in operation, easy to work with, and changeable by personnel who are not affiliated to any fields of microbiology.

Accordingly, besides the objects and advantages of the microbial screening device and cleaning device described in my above patent, several objects and advantages of the present invention are:

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device and has a capacity to identify, isolate and destroy harmful bacterium and

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viral substances such as multidrug resistant clostridiums and staphylococci such as C-Difficile, MRSA, urinary tract bacterium, viral agents, coliform, faecal etc., bacteria suspended in liquids or on biofilm colony on the surface being cleaned.

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface or object cleaning device which will help to reduce the level of nosocomial infections caused by surface transmissible diseases in hospitals, thereby reducing overuse of antibiotics which subsequently reduces, slows down or stops the capability of the human immune system from independently fighting pathogens such as staphylococcal and clostridiums that have developed into multidrug or antibiotic resistant bacteria such as MRSA and C.Difficile.

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device to provide an internet or online up-to-date or live24-7 regional or global easily translated microbial tracking and resource tool that assists regulators and researchers to review scientific data provided by numerous cleaning devices and other relative aspects of the present invention disclosed herein, specifically the lone-operating microbial screening device layout disclosed further below,

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface or object cleaning device to providing frequent telemetric updates of floor surface-diagnostic reports and news regarding microbial relations to certain cleaning agent developments, sent direct to the cleaning device or to an email account or other type of electronic communication protocol registered against or for the particular cleaning device,

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device that which will endeavour to provide and offer innovative value added services for a cost effective dynamic plan template for a global vision and global perspective ranging from setup of forecasting models aimed at a concerted microbial monitoring and surveillance coordination system against or in comparison to previous and future regional weather patterns altering via climate change vagaries, so that a closer and more comprehensive study of the developments of known and new emerging and know virulent microbes around the world are acknowledged early. Also, as to which factors causes the triggering of outbreaks and potent mutations, say, whether associated with a new conducive habitat contributed by habitat changes caused by climate change to certain microbe, vectors, fauna and flora alike or other factors may be established. Therefore, the amalgamation and processing of such diverse sample data pre-collected and stored at the central-hub from numerous end-user microbial screening devices from around the world as described in this patent: disclosure shall help bioresearchers monitor microbial adaptations and their plant, animal or iiuman hosts and origin, against climate change trends and other factors such as increased faster cheaper mass international transit of humans and food produce.

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• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device to constantly provide a-feal-time-24 hour a day accessible automatic self-diagnosing computerised systematic for surface-borne microbe analysing biostation, or central-hub in a certain locality, country or globally, for the correlation, collaboration and corroboration of surface-borne microbe movements, activities, microbial molecular compositions, genomic traits, cladistics, prognosis and epidemiological patterns and developments of microbial substances and hosts against transforming geomorphological biomass or ecosystem habitat changes caused by, and shown/studied against climate change vagaries due to human actions such as uncontrolled deforestation, industrialisation that results in intrusive soil and air contamination, and further ramifications such as lack of rain leading to desertification and droughts, soil erosion and sandstorms, flash floods mudslides and landslides, eustacy or rising seas caused by melting glaciers and mountain snow-caps, heat waves, cyclones and diseases such as water-borne diseases e.g., cholera among and other emerging from destroyed exposed previously concealed inextricably tied plant and animal habitats; so that bioresearchers and georesearchers may share future concerns of microbiological developments against changes conducive or non-conducive conditions altering climate change on a wide variety of regions of the earth's surfaces, and consequent microbial trends and trails to human, animal and plant transport vessels, human, animal and plant premises of different sterile or non-sterile institutions and organisations from diverse fields and different backgrounds, climatic and geographical zones, can be easily attained and analysed for future referencing or when the need arise.

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device and shall help provide microbe evasive techniques that safeguard ecology by implementing natural medical solutions whilst on-going monitoring for possible threats carries on. Such techniques may include; how to prevent favourable conditions for zoonotic diseases emerging or re-emerging in a certain region; how to alternate or rotate transportation vessels along a route during different seasons and different climatic and geographical regions; aid research for implementation of phage therapy or bacteriophagic techniques for destroying multidrug resistant microbes; how to monitor and study symbiotic relationships between the phenology of plants and their parasites, and the phenology of animals on land, water and their parasites, the hibernation of (teliosporic) microbes and insects such as bluebottles, so as to understand seasonal or cyclical disease fluctuations such as hibernal flu in one hemisphere and its circulation and implications to the other hemisphere at that same time of the year, rapidly transmitted via advent of cheaper mass human and produce and products transport, and associated transport vessels, and vice versa.

• To provide a microscopic screening device for screening and identifying living and nonliving substances which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device and will provide a schematic template for a global vision and or global perspective for the setup of an advanced computer system and computer programme for forecasting global microbial

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circulation, origin, emergence, evolutionary genetics of virulent microbes and microbial activities modelled from far and wide geographical sites that provide microbe sample collection data from numerous microbial screening devices in cleaning devices as disclosed herein, such and other projections may show vivid hypothesis of a global or regional microbe clone, clusters and the vector conduciveness to altering climate change due to effects caused by human activities, concentration and congestion, for instance, rural-to-urban migration and subsequent demand for more natural resources such as trees for fossil fuels; advent of cheaper faster mass human carrier vessels such as aeroplanes, buses and trains and cars have exacerbated rapid microbial dissemination and potency, thus should be examined comprehensively thereby allowing institutions and regulators to be able to reproduce detailed future regional and global microbial movements, microbe spread forecasting interactive maps and microbial progressive developments and activities in relation to habitat changes caused by emerging vagaries of climate change and rapid cheaper mass transit across continents. Such forecasts may include; microbial circulation and activity, transmutation and or sporulation projections and trends, hybridism and or creation of hardier homozygous microbes from different regions, identifying and tracking hazardous emerging genomic segregants progenies from their parents after a new microbial genetic string re-assortment or shuffling pack of genes from different microbes is undergone, patterns and or relationships between emerging climatic change in remote geographical region^ such as cities and rural areas, (and or certain effects on biomass against geomorphological changes or vice-versa, e.g., via droughts, floods, earthquakes, etc.) then such information laid out to provide future forecast projections that range from interactive global maps, trend-lines, graphs, histograms, empirical examinations that may include computer animation and or simulations for specific region(s) at certain periods in the future, optional dips such a temperature, wind, rain, humidity fluctuations, increased or decreased carbonic emissions, increased or decreased rivers trees and global groundwater reservoirs, unpredictable microbial traits and transitions such as unanticipated transmutations and spatial microbial maps of genomic segregants (via re-assortment) developments may be provided by the computer programme of the central-hub, with suggestions of options to various strategic proactive prevention and contingency planning set in advance, all via contributions of vast data-stacks provided by a numerous and widely scattered cleaning devices of the present invention disclosed herein.

To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device and provide global setup showing microbial circulations and activities and their relative host reservoirs or carriers more comprehensively and at a short period of time as compared to conventionally employed lengthy methods which generally begin preliminary investigation after a suspect microbe is fully developed and causing infections and destruction; but herein disclosed, there is provided a tool that enables bioresearchers to have prior detailed easily translated knowledge accumulated by the central-hub thereby becoming prepared for the suspect microbe (instead of vice versa)

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and thus making preparations for outbreaks by having ample time to have developed vaccines, medicines or cleaning agents and or setting-out steps on how to avoid the outbreaks altogether, or steer away a certain human activity that may encourage the hazardous suspect microbe development thru mass media knowledge dissemination may be made possible in advance. In the beginning of February 2011, a new strain called the Asian-American dengue fever having an unknown genetic profile from existing strains broke out in Peru.

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device to provide the potential,value of an interactive and proactive, integrated digitized microbial identification approach that allows the establishment of a large microbial collaboration and analysis network which shall easily and rapidly combine a suspect microbium's molecular information alongside techniques of spatial layout of disease analysis in a certain region or at a larger and or global perspective and also infection hazard control or interactive dynamic infection-prevention measures.

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device which will monitor surveillance and trail sources and classes (taxonomy) of microbial substances and hosts origins, live monitoring, trailing microbe DNA-codes, monitor host reservoir against transforming geomorphological and biomass habitat changes caused by, say, climate change. For instance, the prospect of alien female anopheles mosquitoes, spoonbills, south American water primrose, loose flowered orchids, wasp spiders, African clawed toad, southern African xenopus frog colonizing for the first time and thriving in previously/.non-conducive environs such as the countryside south of England, and the opposite adverse effects on native habitat wildlife and plants such as bluebells, hazel dormouse, redshank, snow bunting, cool water salmon and trout may struggle to adapt due to their developing native habitat changes caused by climate change would be studied. Also, deforestation that causes infiltration subsequently creating porous unstable lands and spread of previously endemic virulent microbes far away,... and perhaps, in a certain paleopathology scenario wherein exhumation of primeval or ancient genomic microbial substances or primitive microbes resurfacing from deep thawed depths of permafrost soil due to effects of denudation of polar melting icebergs and glaciers on mountains and alps causing hazardous prehistoric microbes to become rekindled and spread via streams to the land and then into the seas, can be retraced to an original source by the schematic template representation disclosed herein, thereby enabling bioresearchers to study spread of modern populations and pathogenesis of various adverse diseases and maladies that have affected man over many millennia, and even perform future prognoses on such bases. It may'ilso provide new avenues for realising microbes and their capacities which may then be used to destroy conventional microbes such as super-bugs.

• To provide a microbial screening device which works in conjunction with any surface

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cleaning device to help provide detailed,digitized 'global microbe genetic library' having a global database of all invasive organism, friendly organism, and or hazardous organisms and comprehensive details of how to deal with any challenges related to such microorganisms.

• To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device (microbial screening device) which works in conjunction with any type of surface/object cleaning device to persuade global cooperation to control other and species-barrier-crossing diseases by establishing causes, vectors, types, prevention, treatment and facts of diseases that may affect man, plants and animals via monitoring provided by the microbial screening device herein and helping to reduce bioxenophobic regulations that are hostile to immigrant species and bias protection to native species. In one recent example in Britain, there is a call for exterminating the immigrant grey squirrel species (2.5million) so as to protect the native red squirrel species (140,900). The grey squirrel species carry the squirrel-pox virus only fatal to the ced squirrel species and also out-competes the red squirrel species for food see an article on page 9 of the Daily Mail newspaper 5th April 2011. In another example, in the year of 2003, a consortium of bird conservancy endeavoured to increase and improve the area and quality of a bird's habitat by clearing of infiltrating foreign plants by planting native trees in order to protect a critically endangered bird, the Azores bullfinch in Europe. As a result, foreign plants (that would have otherwise increased biodiversity) such as the yellow-ginger lily and lily-of-the-valley, which degraded that natural habitat, were cleared. Thus, the template and implement of the microbial surveillance capability of the cleaning device disclosed herein would expose whether an invasion or transmissions of a certain microbe, parasite, microbe/parasite reservoir, suspect reservoir candidate affecting certain species of any fauna or flora occurred naturally (e.g., resulting from migration, wind and drifting) or due to human activity, before blanket incrimination of a certain species occurs. On Monday 21bt June 2010, a Metro London newspaper report on page 21, titled 'Scorpions, wallabies and aardvarks invade Britain' highlighted the concern that exotic plant and animals from as far as Brazil, Russia and China are damaging crops and driving out native wildlife.

• To provide a surface cleaning device that helps to penetrate and clean floor surfaces and crevices and or grout-lines scientifically leaving a recorded high gnotobiotic standard, as opposed to squeegee on prior art apparatuses that paste such crevices with dragged dirt and contaminants, exposing babies and children who are particularly susceptible to infections caused by germs and fungal mycotoxins on floors surfaces which can be a hazard especially if a domestic home has pets such as cats and dogs, pet rodents and caged birds. If children play or crawl on such floors, they could quite easily pick up these germs.

• To provide a surface cleaning device that helps to penetrate against grains of surface textures whilst cleaning domestic living area floor surfaces and other surfaces e.g., bathroom tile relief features and crevices and or grout-lines in a scientifically hygienic

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manner as opposed to squeegee-type prior art cleaning apparatuses that paste crevices with dragged muck and hazardous contaminants that promote growth of bacteria, moulds, mildew and fungi which are important triggers for allergenic and asthmatic responses, particularly in children. Mould poisoning attacks the respiratory system and affects millions of people every year. Mould can hide in a house for years without anyone realising it. '

• To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device (microbial screening device) which works in conjunction with any type of surface/object cleaning device endeavouring to provide a surface cleaning device which will help to 'make visible' the invisible microbes on any computerized visual displays such as on home computers and mobile smartphones so that anyone can easily interact, understand, identify and 'see' the (invisible) disease and take precautionary measures (before the disease finds them) beforehand.

• To provide an easy to manufacture, durable, miniaturized and affordable living or nonliving microscopic substance identifying tool which (can be retrofitted on any prior art surface or object cleaning devices across the world) works in conjunction with any surface cleaning device so that all microbes known and unknown universally are monitored before causing any casualtieS'because microbes intricate details such as DNA-codes of such microbes are recorded and stored for continuous global comprehensive monitoring and continuous round the clock assessments.

Other essential objects and advantages that may emanate from the computerization of merging digitized sample data information of microbial codes and signatures gathered from numerous cleaning devices scattered around remote regions, and individually frequently providing diverse sample data of surface diagnostic reports and storing the digitized information in a computer processor and memory system are;

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which will continuously and constantly scan ambient air for living and non-living virulent microbial and other microscopic substances that may include: dust fumes, fungus, pollen, odours, virus, fibres, nitrous oxides, smoke and soot in the ambient air in domestic and industrial settings, and floor surfaces in domestic homes for monitoring presence or absence of hazardous microbial substances, elements and carcasses/exoskeleton shedding/eggs such as those of; dust mites, head louse, louse, bedbugs, ticks, mites and mite faeces and endotoxins thereof which trigger inflammation in the airways causing respiratory diseases such as asthma, rhinitis, bronchitis, wheezing, anaphylactic shock; mould and mildew, fungus and viruses (and home plants viroid), skin flake and bad odours, flies such as mosquitoes, gnats, sand-flies, tsetse flies etc., so that if a suspect substance/microbe is present, an alarm is raised before humans contract the disease of a certain microbial signature found by the cleaning device in a domestic home. For instance, cladosporium, keratitis, shigella, dermatophytes, mucor and staphylococcus are hazardous microbial substances (that may further produce endotoxins and allergens) and are commonly found in the air and surfaces of domestic homes, and especially those

homes with children's pets such as parrots, rabbits, canaries, guinea pigs, ferrets, Lhasa Apso dogs. Australian sugar gliders, chipmunks, hamsters, dogs, cats, in child and pet play areas and nursery and nursery creches, causing various animal-allergen exposures. Similarly, the rapidly emerging trend by wealthy and middle-class people in the Western hemisphere and the Far East of collecting exotic pet accessories (or novel micropets or palm-sized pets) is fuelling the illegal global trade in exotic and endangered wildlife (and plants) which shall lead to more species-jumping or animal-human disease transmissions and new disease outbreaks as are already happening with bird flu and monkey pox. Also, transmission of zoonotic diseases is possible from rampant possession of endangered species of animal parts and exotic plants by traditional healers and herbalists. Other sources of must-have miniaturised trendy novel animals or designer pets are being reproduced in farms operating intensive cross-breeding programmes and sold on to people may include micro-pigs, pygmy hedgehogs, pygmy monkeys, pygmy pooches, mini-tortoises, gerbils and rabbits, etc. Thus, with up to a third of people worldwide infected with the bacterium that causes TB, only a small percentage ever develop the disease. However, children and adults may become susceptible for infection from various genres of the microbe from sources such as the above animals that may harbor mycobacterium bovis and mycobacterium avium, the cause of TB in birds and is a close relative of human tuberculosis, and that can also lay dormant within the immune system of humans without detection, yet still communicable. Borelia burgdorferi carried by ticks from domesticated animals such as dogs can also lay dormant for more than a decade in humans and causes Lyme disease which attacks the immune system causing paralysis, encephalitis and meningitis and memory loss in children. Other, rather uncommon, causes of chronic productive coughs in children would include infection with an unusual bacterium, such as non-tuberculous mycobacteria and can occur with asthma and pertussis. Also, some of the above microbes such as mucor found in ambient air in a domestic homes can lead to permanent''disorders such as facial zigomycosis and toenail infections and disfigurements, sinusitis and pulmonary infections which if left untreated can turn into much serious respiratory infections such as, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, arthritis, eye problems, human tuberculosis and weakened immune systems and memory loss. Bedbugs can live for months without feeding, hiding deep in mattresses and upholstery, emerging only to feed on human blood. Although bedbugs do not transmit disease, their bites are itchy and can lead to infection - and in some cases to anaphylactic shock. Staphylococcus can cause boils, dermatitis, pneumonia and various forms of arthritis. Thus, the novel or fashion rodent pets, birds and animals above can carry and transmit highly virulent infectious diseases such as typhus fever, E.coli, Trypanosomiasis from which causes sleeping sickness in humans, cat-scratch fever and toxoplasmosis, rabies, tularaemia, psittacosis, Lyme disease, bubonic plague, trichinosis, Chagas disease, rickettsia via parasitic vectors such as deer ticks, fleas, and mites, lice, found feeding on these animals and also their body fluids and excretions. Also, most of the above rodents and animals carry parasites (such as chigoes and leishmaniasis) that practise heteroecism, infecting humans as hosts during the cpurse of their metamorphic cycles. On the other hand, close contact of humans and animals such as monkeys can transmit diseases such as influenza from humans to monkeys, and to further proviruses. Other locations where air and surfaces may be scanned for disease causing microbes may include abattoirs, bovine farms, broiler farms, hog farms, hospitals and culture labs, biosafety laboratories and relative biopharmaceutical clean rooms for manufacture, plant and animal seed banks, planting nurseries and food vegetation fields, schools, air-sea-water passenger transport

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vessels and associated international docking entry and exit ports.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which has elements which will provide information about the earliest discovery, origin, genus, DNA-code, emergence and evolutionary genetics of virulent microbes before an outbreak is achieved. For example, setting up a bovine tuberculosis (bTB) detection system framework where data is collected by using a certain aspect of the disclosure of the cleaning device herein in animal fluids and waste droppings on the surface and drainage pipes and sumps, and also from the cattle shed or broiler house and hog farm enclosures, whereby ambient air may be scanned by lone microbe scanners planted in predetermined locations within the farm yard enclosures and or peripheries, and then the information gathered by the lone microbe scanners sent telemetrically to a central-hub for analysis, then remedial information or feedback relayed to the farmer, showing spatial maps and progressive trends and such information can also be shared within a wireless or an electronic communication protocol network of a iocal or heuristic community watch network, or more broadly to countywide, national or international bovine and avian farmers network, thereby enabling the farmers enough time to make collective decisive actions to save their herds and flocks. Thus, by strategically placing air sniffing devices that collect or inhale droplets of mycobacterium bovis suspended in air at farm peripheries where m.bovis pathogenic carriers and or other main candidate reservoirs such as, coyotes, deer, bats and specifically badgers carry TB and mark their territory using body waste, and are likely to gain access into bovine farms are particularly hazardous can be detected early. Thus, the aspect of the cleaning device as described in this patent disclosure shall help save unnecessary destruction of herds that can amount to hundreds or thousands of animals in a single farm and much more across a region, vast economic loses and eliminate the level of emotional distress that farmers or farming community endures when all herds are destroyed by regulatory health or veterinary health authorities. For example, the fight to tackle badger TB in Britain cost £80 million in 2007/08. Besides, there remains a fight between the farmers who say that the badgers need to be culled and campaigners who say the cull is cruel and immoral. In year 2009, 36,000 cows infected with bTB were slaughtered in the UK, and farmers awarded £24 million in compensation. At the moment badgers are culled by contractors using traps placed in farm peripheries and woodlands where badger setts are found. Some farmers also resort to making bush traps to catch and then shoot the badgers, again upsetting the animal rights campaigners. For example, on the 14th July 2010, the Daily Express national newspaper highlighted an issue on page 7 headlined 'Badger Lovers Halt Cull' after animal campaigners went to the Court of Appeal to stop an impending badger cull in Wales, UK. Ironically, there remain some sceptical views that science is unable to prove whether the spread of bovine TB is being done from cows to badgers or vice-versa Thus, this aspect above of the cleaning device herein shall help close pending microbial investigatory loopholes where there may have been certain unidentified hosts and vectors that are the primary reservoirs and have been unacknowledged, thereby aiding in vividly charting pathogenesis of an obscured (perhaps heteroecious) microbe that criss-crosses different host species within animal or plant kingdoms.

• To provide a surface cleaning device^working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device that can scan, detect and

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or monitor ambient air for presence or absence of non-living virulent toxic microscopic chemical particulate substances suspended within the air in domestic and industrial (office, factory and electronic outlets) settings and floor surfaces, which may include and not limited to computer equipment fumes, dust and gasses commonly known as 'out-gassing' which comes from vapour produced from traces of manufacturing materials slowly evaporating especially when equipment is new or from the cooling fans of computer equipment such as televisions, decoders, cooking microwaves and personal computers.- Other materials such as new upholstery, vinyl mats, carpets, furnishings may out-gas. For example, chip-board such as MDF or medium-density fibreboard — a composite material made of glued-together wood fibres that usually contain the adhesive formaldehyde, which is a possible carcinogen. Formaldehyde is also used for other purposes, for example, it is used to add permanent press qualities to clothing and draperies, as a component of glues and adhesives, and as a preservative in some paints and coating products contains phenolic and or urea resins, which release trace amounts of formaldehyde. Many household and office furnishings may also be contaminated with fire retardant brominated phenolic dust. Carpeting from foam padding, paint and fabrics also gives off these gases. Most persons will first react to formaldehyde when the levels are in the range of 0.1 to 1.1 parts per million, while some individuals acquire a reduced tolerance to the gas following their initial exposure. People with existing respiratory problems may be vulnerable while in other cases, headaches, dizziness, wheezing, sinus discomfort may be experienced. Above-normal levels of the chemical in the home atmosphere can trigger asthma attacks in individuals who have this condition. Other health hazards attributed to it include skin rashes; watery eyes; burning sensations in the eyes, throat, and nasal passages; and breathing difficulties. Other sources of out-gassing are from laser printers which emit a lot of toner dust, carbon and solvent. Other sources of out-gassing chemicals may be from dozens of everyday items like drink and food packaging, CD's, casings, baby bottles, new car interiors, which contain Bisphenol A, or BPA used for hardening plastics and is one of the world's most widely manufactured chemicals banned in the E.U from the 1st June 2011. The present invention herewith can monitor moderate and drastically sharp rises in these hazardous chemicals in the domestic home and immediately notifying the owners to either increase ventilation and circulation of outside air through the home, limiting the number of new items introduced into the home, removal of these items from the living room areas, children's bedrooms, until the equipment has reduced emitting the chemicals, acclimatizes to prevent risk of formaldehyde poisoning from house appliances. On the other hand, the present invention may monitor rise in hazardous chemicals from equipment degenerating due to old age or over-use, such as heaters and old computers, splitting cracked or cut MDF boards releasing fresh emissions, radios, televisions, degenerating notebook, camcorders, cellular phone charging batteries, then notifying the owner of the household at the earliest opportunity regarding the drastic rise in ordourless hazardous chemical within the household.

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• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which identifies microbes on ordinary cleaning tools such as scouring pads. For example, Salmonella which causes food poisoning and known to stay alive on hard surfaces for over 24 hours, and drug-resistant staphylococcal like MRSA and MSSA, and clostridiums such as C.Difficile can be spread easily via wet cleaning of floors and kitchen table tops. Re-emerging and newly emerging viruses such as influenza type A-H1N1 is also known to live on hard surfaces for considerable lengths of time amounting to at least 48hours.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device that can reduce harmful microbes, recurrent overuse of dirty cloths before cleaning of reusable household kitchen towels that usually harbours the highest numbers of or known to generate the growth and spread of fungi and bacteria thereby risking food cross-contamination.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device that possesses a microbial screening device which is miniature in size, is cheap to manufacture and install and incorporate within current cleaning apparatus for the purpose of collecting floor surface sample data for diagnostic tests during a cleaning cycle, then the data being telemetrically transmitted for processing at a data central-hub. The data may then be comparatively analysed against previously stored data or floor surface diagnostic databases and resultant information or feedback sent to the related cleaning apparatus telemetrically or via a wireless electronic protocol address registered against the related cleaning apparatus. The data may also be shared within a computerized network consortium of such firms for collaboration and study between various floor surface diagnostic reports from firms of related or unrelated fields and backgrounds.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device that possesses a microbial screening device which may be preconfigured to search and document vulnerabilities such as in the nascent, intermediate and fait accompli chemical changes in a bacterium's molecular makeup and also within bacteria colony gene-and protein networks or epigenomics.

To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device that has a microscopic substance and microbial screening and detection device that is cheap to manufacture and install in any prior art cleaning apparatus and is miniature in size and efficient in early detection of microscopic microbial substances and microscopic non-microbial substances in sterile or non-sterile environment thereby saving commercial firms and franchises vast amounts of money and public goodwill lost thru sudden embarrassing revelations about their firm's personal hygiene which inevitably leads to punitive hazard control fines imposed by criminal and civil regulatory bodies. For example, the living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device as disclosed herein may be

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implemented for a variety of uses such as to detect hazardous invisible, odourless or scentless leaks on surfaces or ambient air and undetectable by human inspection, high quantification of certain dangerous metal such as mercury or lead or pathogenic microbial samples collected from such floor surfaces and ambient air during a cleaning cycle using the cleaning device herein, which thence automatically raises an alarm about such findings to relevant authority within e.g., a restaurant franchise network, or raises a signal to regulators immediately so that appropriate measures are taken to curb the problem, e.g. a leaking pipe or certain other parasitic or non-parasitic infestations. 'Covered in bites' from bed bugs at posh L.A. hotel' was the demeaning headline around media on 12th November 2011 after a group of contestants visited the prestigious $200 a night Grafton Hotel on Sunset Boulevard. The contestants suffered severe sores from itching and shock. The bedbug epidemic is believed to have started in New York City and quickly spread west. According to the U.S. National Pest Management Association, last year they^ measured a 71 per cent increase in bedbug infestations since 2001. Bedbugs can live for months without feeding, hiding deep in mattresses and upholstery, emerging only to feed on human skin, flesh and blood. Although bedbugs do not transmit disease, their bites are itchy and can lead to infection - and in some cases to anaphylactic shock. Similarly, television media in London and specifically the Metro newspaper of 28th August 2009 headlined 'Eatery Fined £30,000 for Mouse Filth' after a flagship Central London's restaurant TGI Fridays in Covent Garden was shut down by health inspectors who found piles of dead cockroaches and mouse droppings in kitchens. Further reported, 'The company was fined £30,000 after admitting hygiene offences and had to spend an extra £66,000 in cleaning the diner after it was shut in July..' Also reported, the restaurant in Covent Garden was branded a breeding ground for rodents' in 'one of the worst cases ever seen' by health officials. In a similar story on the 9th April 2010, an article in the London Metro newspaper reported on page 27 and titled 'Cockroaches at Leicester Square KFC said franchise restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken had admitted breaking the law on food hygiene after cockroaches, mice andflies were found at its flagship Central London Leicester Square branch. A sentencing verdict reported widely by UK media on 10th May 2010 found KFC guilty and fined £19,000. In another incident, the Surrey Times newspaper report on Saturday 22" August 2009 and headlined; 'Abattoir Fined over Chemical Discharge' portrayed a leading chain of butchers called Chitty fined £30,000.00 for permitting chemical effluent exceeding 777% into storm drains. In yet another unrelated incident on the 20th September 2009, the BBC news at 6pm reported an incident in Surrey two weeks ago where school children were infected with E.coli bacteria. Godstone Farm in Surrey where 64 children were infected with some critically ill with kidney failure due to the contamination. Similar news was reported from a farm in Nottinghamshire, and it is not known if the two incidents are related. By the 29lh September 2009, the media reported that the number of the people infected with the E.coli code 0157 infection from Godstone Farm had risen to 86 people. As a result, most if not all such farms have shut and it is not known whether farms such as dairy farms, broiler forms, and hog farms are affected. As investigative of potential sources of contamination work is carried out, vital time passes by, the farms lose financial resources, and more people may become infected. On 16lh June 2010, a report about

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the inquiry into the outbreak in Godstone Farm was printed on page 24 of the Daily Mirror newspaper headlined 'E.coli Scare Farms Face Strict Rules'. In the report, urgent changes were needed to be placed in all such farms as priority so that the outbreak, poor diagnosis of symptoms and the slow response by the Health Protection Agency can be avoided in the future. The report also added that some of the victims have since learned they suffered permanent kidney damage. Out of the ninety three people affected, 76 of them were children under 10 years old. All in all, a microscopic substance and microbial screening and detection device as described in this patent disclosure would have found out before or during the incubational period of these microbes that a potentially hazardous microbe was lurking and developing around and the entire network of farms, franchise restaurants, etc., alerted in good time, thereby making appropriate remedial steps in ample time before any children got infected or before heavy handed authoritarian fines are passed to the offenders. In the beginning of November 2009, media in the UK widely reported that nine wards in the Luton and Dunstable Hospital were closed due to an outbreak of the winter vomiting disease caused by the norovirus bug. By the end of November 2009, media in the UK widely reported that Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital was strenuously condemned for high mortality rates contributed by filthy appalling conditions on the floor and other surfaces in the hospital. On the 20lh December 2009, BBC news 24 reported that a US jury awarded SlOOmillion dollars in damages to ten workers who said that a leak at a BP oil refinery had made them sick. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which monitors and advises on disease in the European Union, calculates that multidrug resistant infections such as staphylococcal, clostridiums, enterococcus and salmonella are responsible for 25,000 fatalities a year, €900 million euros a year in extra hospital costs, and a further €600 million euros a year in lost productivity. Additionally, in July 2011, media across the world reported about the Egyptian fenugreek seeds which may have been the source of an epidemic in Germany which infected over 1,400 people and 49 fatalities. It was never know exactly where the origin of the problem emanated from with some citing irrigation water infected with the E.coli microbe or that bean sprouts were the source. Therefore, there is a need for a way in which hazardous microbes can be identified, monitored, trailed and destroyed before an outbreak occurs and this patent disclosure endeavours to reach this goal in that;

• To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device that will bypasses traditional time consuming methods of microbial preliminary reconnaissance seeking to establish epidemiological patterns of an illness thus saving the demand for excessive personnel.

• To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device which can incorporate internet collaboration bionetworks and set up the construction of new computer programmes on a countrywide, international or global scale in order to rapidly analyse microbial traits, advancements, mutations, diseases and signature identification code

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by automatically carrying out comparative assessments of telemetrically received vast conglomeration of microbial data algorithm information input from numerous individual cleaning devices from diverse backgrounds scattered around the world, that is from different domestic homes, establishments firms of different fields, geographical and climatic regions etcetera thence processing the information at a central-hub before automatically issuing feedback such as recommended advise, warnings or prompts for adequate first responders from relevant pre-sekcted authorities concerned in a particularly field of a certain affliction^in a certain region or country. Remedial output may also be pre-planned in ample time for provision to a people dealing with affliction or isolation.

To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device which aids in designing standardised cleaning procedures with current or upgraded effective cleaning or sanitizing methods, cleaning agents and cleaning apparatuses.

To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device which aids the setup of clear robust strategic objectives and proactive contingency plans and countermeasures for tackling threats in rapid and flexible methods within sterile and non-sterile premises, locations and establishments.

To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device which eases the accounting of cleaning agent inventory, i.e. to improve the efficiency of inventory tracking and management by providing accurate purchasing of cleaning agents and materials, parts and machinery thus making financial savings and reducing loses.

To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device which can collaborate a (floor) surface diagnostic report sample via a central computer processing system or central-hub, then emailing the information to cleaning agent manufacturers, scientific personnel and researchers in pharmaceutical industries in order to aid them in developing or upgrading current cleaning agents so as to remain a step ahead or in advance to any rising microbial resistances to current cleaning agents by allowing cleaning agent manufacturers to design and produce more potent cleaning agents as a countermeasure to the microbial resistances to current cleaning agents in production at any certain given time.

To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device which assists cleaning agent and cleaning chemical users to work in partnership thus be able to get the best advice from cleaning agent manufacturers, for example, on how to use a particular

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cleaning agent as well as optimizing and standardizing cleaning methods nationally or internationally. An industrial cleaning agent consumer may be able to get custom made cleaning agents designed to meet a particular cleaning need for certain genres of microbes because of prior collaboration between the cleaning agent manufacturer and the surface cleaning device thus a solution to specifically confront or target the microbes found in that site is achieved.

• To provide a living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device working with any surface cleaning device to provide a surface cleaning device which helps in setting up of a dedicated national and international network for registry and review of microbial traits and genus found in various floor surfaces from different fields, backgrounds, and locations far and wide and putting the information together for analytical and planning control. ■'

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which will aid in sending information about the hygienic nature of certain surfaces to a national or international centre or central-hub for upgrading and designing an international hub or feedback collaborating centre via the internet on how companies, institutions and governments should respond and find ways and methods to deal with combating emerging microbes and their emergent conditions whether or not conducive to bacterial growth, for example, a period of time sufficient for growth of a developing microbe to relative consumption of a vital substance for survival such as oxygen intake or any other foreseeable need, thereby destroying the microbial metamorphosing cycle or incubatory gestational patterns and periodic lengths of maturation, thereby avoiding the occurrence or manifestations of virulent microbes or parasites.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which can rapidly generate detailed reports, communicate periodic logs to a national or international floor surface diagnostic database or central-hub for microbial monitoring, graph, histograms, trend lines and model statistic production, printing and archiving purposes.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which will permit the central-hub to rapidly generate detailed reports of different microbial species and activities thereof, and from different climatic and geographical regions and locations of the world. Such information being used for tangible training teaching purposes as well as for purposes of study of microbial transmission and transmutations, combined review and analytical planning, in-depth substantial scientific and research programmes and exchange projects, periodic publications and counter measuring proposals from the information collected from various surfaces globally, such surfaces as floors, restaurant kitchen floors and tables, abattoir floors, bathroom walls, hospital and laboratory floors

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and walls, pavements, ceilings etc., from related and unrelated firms and from different fields, backgrounds of industrial and domestic origin.".

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• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which will allow valuable window of opportunity for the earliest discovery of dangerous microbes before an outbreak is achieved. For example, holiday cruise ships liners spend up to four months at sea with hundreds or thousands of people on board. They visit many ports around different geographical and climatic locations around the world, thus can be a conducive habitat for microbial incubation due to the confined solitary state at sea and transmission-due to the vast amount of people on board coupled with the short visits to inland ports and hotels whereby the people from the cruise ships pass on infectious or dangerous microbes to people and surfaces in the mainland, or can consequently pick up dangerous microbes from the mainland hotels and surfaces and bringing the microbes back into the ship for a lengthy period of incubation at sea, thus infecting hundreds of people within a short time on board since everyone is essentially held captive in the ship and by the long periods of time spent at sea. There are cases whereby all passengers and crew on board a cruise ship have been placed under quarantine thence the entire ship, ship crew and hundreds of holiday makers become trapped or stranded in their holiday ship after being denied entry by a port authority into a country because they all are suffering from a dangerous and transmissible infection.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device that is lightweight quiet, battery operated, and is housed within a hermetically sealed transportable palm-sized casing that may be about the size of the general computer mouse, and uses dermatologically friendly antimicrobial cleaning agents such as alcohol based sanitizer, so that passengers in crowded places like cruise ships, trains, aeroplanes, cinemas and long distance buses can use the cleaning device in sanitizing various surfaces that may include; hands before eating, seat arm-rests, tables, toilet seats and baby changing tables, where contagious disease causing microbes such as norovirus, staphylococcal and E.coli can be harboured. For example, on the 8lh October 2008, a flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Chicago shortly after take-off when numerous passengers suffered acute gastrointestinal maladies that included vomiting and diarrhoea, thought to have been caused by the highly contagious norovirus.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which will incorporate the use of various sensory elements such as RFID tags that can report sensor data, for example, a passive RFID tag that reports ambient air conditions and living and non-living microscopic substances therein, and floor temperatures so that it can be known whether a location, room or building is providing conditions conducive to microbial incubation or not.

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• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface or any object cleaning device which will provide concerted accurate scientific comparative analysis and detailing of correspondences of floor surface diagnostic report between related and non-related firms and industries, different fields and backgrounds, for example, the correlation of samples between; a plant cutting firm and a plant growers firm in another continent; a hospital and a meat processing supply plant; an airport, a hospital laboratory and a yogurt company laboratory, a train terminus and a seaport terminus; a meat processing plant and an abattoir; children's creche kindergartens and a preschool or pre-primary schools; landscaping tree surgeons and farmers possessing ploughing cultivation harvesting tractors and attachments thereof, a pharmaceutical company and a soft drink production company; a senior persons nursing home and a holiday sea cruise liner; a broiler flock farm and a chain of restaurants; a midland swimming pool consortium and a sea-side swimming pool consortium; a bovine farm where school children visit and a primary school or children nursery kindergarten; a nutraceutical firm, a gnotobiotic institute, a biopharmaceutical firm, and a cosmeceutical firm, wherefore all these information may be merged telemetrically or wirelessly into a central-hub that may be located locally, countywide, countrywide, or globally at a microbial analytical centre or central-hub for the purposes of surveillance, analysis, recording, update and respondent feedback regarding the surface(s) wherefrom suspect sample of floor surface diagnostic report originated. ^

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which reduces the risk and spread of dangerous bacterium, viral and fungal substances such as rhinovirus, poliovirus type 1, adenovirus type 2, MRSA and MSSA, C-Difficile and E.coli poisoning, Hepatitis A virus, streptococcus, listeria and norovirus from becoming spread via cross-contamination; from surface to surface, floor to floor, wall to wall, ceiling to wall and room to room during a cleaning or dusting operations. It is now known that dangerous bacterium like salmonella and emerging new virus like influenza type A H1N1 commonly known as swine flu can live for considerable lengths of time on hard surfaces. The present invention eliminates this problem by containing hazardous bacteria, viral and contaminants thru capturing, storing or holding, isolating and destroying the bacterium in confinement containers and not releasing or dragging microbes or germs across a cleaning surface and then returning the germs into the cleaning liquid reservoir'as is common with prior art manual sponge and mopping methods and prior art electronic and manual floor cleaning apparatuses that incorporate use of doctor-blades or squeegee ridges as their last or final cleaning component that comes into contact with a cleaning surface across a cleaning width, thence dragging and smearing contaminant germs and debris across a wall surface, worktop surface, floor surfaces from room to rooms, hospital wards to ward, lavatories to laboratories, and to the hospital kitchens, etcetera.

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• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which can incorporate a microbial screening device that can be configured to take up liquid specimens or random samples of a floor surface before and after a surface cleaning operation^on a cleaning surface for comparative analysis within the a memory and processor capability within the cleaning device or at a remote central-hub for processing regarding the degree of microbial substances found in the surface being cleaned by the cleaning device.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which can be used to make accurate model predictions and projections of microbial activity within an afflicted or non-afflicted premises or region.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which can incorporate a microbial screening device and that can be configured to sniff or take up gaseous and liquid specimens in random and whilst cleaning a floor surface during a cleaning operation on a cleaning surface for automated comparative analysis of the populations or quantity and identification of microbial substances present or non-present upon a surface in a location or room.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which can help for the best available updated reinforcement of scientific data for rapid planning, vigilance and countermeasures or preparedness in dealing with microbial threats of endemic or pandemic dispositions as knowledge and information about microbial trends is constantly advancing and unpredictable. Thus, continued frequent updates and amendments of evidential bases with regular comparative reviews against newly acquired array of microbe digital sample algorithms from various floor surface diagnostic reports and floor surface diagnostic databases can aid in the revisions of all and or archaic plans, projections and trajectory models which is fundamental at all levels of microbiological studies.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which will help provide a most convenient or latest update reinforcement of scientific evidence gained from the rapid research and development grafted from the central-hub shall be an important contribution to shaping and informing pandemic preparedness such as contingency planning which remains particularly vital to improving understanding of the microbes as wider impacts of any new microbes by definition are difficult to predict conventionally.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which can incorporate a microbial screening device that can be configured to sniff small samples of air or take specimens of microbes suspended

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within liquid, biofilm colony or gaseous medium for analytical determination of any microbial elements or content of suspicious substances, powders and biohazards such as anthrax, Ebola, explosives, radioactive, etc., on floor surfaces, in such busy locations as inner city street pavements, malls, bus stations, train stations terminus, airports floor surfaces etc.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working wi'h living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide^ surface cleaning device which has the capacity to collect or pick up, seclude or quarantine and destroy harmful bacteria whilst simultaneously collecting and storing a record or log of the type and level of severity of hazardous microbes encountered on a cleaning surface for further analysis and countermeasure implementations.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which can incorporate a microbial screening device that has a detection system that can be configured to take surface swabs and detect microbial or biohazards (in air) and or identify signature chemicals emitted by particular microbes or biohazard, or look for signatures or microbial DNA-barcode of specific microbes or biohazard from a specimen or sample collected from a surface e.g. floor surface in a bacteria culture plant, or a biohazard present in an airport or seaport ambient air and or floor surfaces.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which can incorporate a microbial screening device that can be configured to take surface swabs from an object or location of interest, with the swabs being run through a microbial screening element for detection of microbes.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device with inbuilt systems can utilize air sensors that pull samples from the air, or sniff the air, taking samples which can quickly be cross-referenced with about other microbial information stored in a microchip of the microbial screening device about microbes of interest, for example, air pulled from the surface of a floor by a vacuuming port can be screened for other purposes other than disease causing microbes, specifically for suspicious or to identify or report powders of unknown origins in a particular location or area; or that the portable cleaning device may emit chemicals which interact with particular microbes. For example, a crude microbial detection technique involves spraying a chemical which causes microbes to fluoresce, and then using an ultraviolet light to see whether or not fluorescence has emerged.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device with inbuilt

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systems that utilizes short wavelength of ultraviolet light, UV-C rays, Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation and or UV germicidal light to destroy microbial elements such as E.coli, salmonella, persistent and virulent multi-drug resistant MRSA and MSSA, and Clostridium such as C.Difficile etc.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface and floor cleaning device that would help to improve existing aseptic techniques used in susceptible sites whereby dangerous microorganisms could cause infection e.g. in areas of public health facilities such as operating tables and theatres surfaces, patient transfer units and apparatus, ambulances, gnotobiotic institutes etc.

• To provide a surface cleaning device^working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface and floor cleaning device that would help to improve existing aseptic techniques used in susceptible sites whereby dangerous microorganisms could cause infection thereby reducing the volume of nosocomial infections in hospitals, thus reducing antibiotic use and overuse which subsequently reduces, slows down or stops the further progression and development of harsher bacteria resistant to antibiotics, such as MRSA, C.Difficile and newly emerging nosocomial multidrug resistant strains such as ESBL Klebsiella.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface and floor cleaning device that would help to improve current aseptic cleaning techniques used in microbiological culture growing centres in order to keep a culture free from contamination.

• To provide a surface cleaning device^working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface and floor cleaning device that shall provide a cleaning device that makes automatic rapid assessments whether suspicious biological or radioactive content is present in a vicinity or not. Suspicious powders or substances of unknown origin may be collected from a cleaning surface in gaseous form via sniffing by the cleaning device. A biofilm colony may be screened within a liquid medium or dried matter on a surface reconstituted via adding a liquid such as water on a site such as an airport floor surface or street pavement during cleaning, then the cleaning device automatically and telemetrically correlates such information with relevant agencies for analytical purposes at a central-hub, and the deployment of a first responder is automatic actuated.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device that can detect the presence or content such as sugar level in urine, worms, iron, etc., or white blood cells in urine which translate to an infection of the gastro-urinary system, protein, epidermal infections when used while cleaning a baby or the surface after cleaning a baby, then

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sending the details telemetrically to a computer system that may be stationed locally at home or to the local family general practitioner or a hospital away for processing and analysis of the sample data to provide feedback. Any cleaning devices may provide feedback immediately on a display on its exterior surface.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device with sophisticated yet inexpensive system that can identify multiple species from different backgrounds; microbes, animals, insects and plants, for example, via their genetic DNA-code or DNA-barcode and their populations or concentrations therein, thence providing a quick overview of the microbial activity in a premises or area.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device with an inbuilt rapid microbial detector for detecting the genus of the microbe as well as a useful tool for quickly establishing that harmful microbes are present or absent in a location or room being cleaned. ,.>•

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device with bacterium filtering capacities so that or less or non-pathogenic microbes are ignored by the microbial screening device and dangerous or pathogenic microbes are reported.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device which can be used to quantify, identify and log microbial elements before a cleaning operation to wash, sanitize, disinfect, sterilize, surfaces like living room's eating tables, clean-rooms, hospital and laboratory floors and walls, restaurants, luncheonettes, dining tables, kitchen cooking table tops, laboratory floors and work benches, children's creche areas, baby changing surfaces and baby faecal matter, toilet seats etc,

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a surface cleaning device that merges broadly collected scientific raw-material information from various samples of floor surface diagnostic reports from different fields and backgrounds, climatic and geographical conditions to bioresearchers so that a continued watch or surveillance of international boarders for the emergence of new microbes, microbial variants and known perennial microbes such as winter flu, can be identified early at origination points before transmission or further development of the microbes occur. Such information being stored in a countrywide, international or global microbial analytical database centre or central-hub for the purposes of study and respondent remedial planning capabilities to afflicted sociodemographical group, populace, populous, country in need of the counteractive information.

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• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device that helps rapidly generate and process, store, collaborate and corroborate microbial data with strategic health authorities nationwide or internationally the samples of floor surface diagnostic reports and floor surface diagnostic databases from a wide array of locations globally, thus setting up a structured framework for coordinated planning for principles of microbial containment, general codes of eradication, evacuation, mass vaccinations and immunization programs, radio, TV and SMS notifications, to be carried out before any further infection propagates or microbe shifts-shape or mutates into an unpredictable new strain.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which provides an inexpensive proactive online 24-7 live microbial circulation interactive spatial maps for review and surveillance for keep close monitoring of global microbial activity, dissemination, persistence and virulence which is a vital tool for a deciding traveller and susceptible patients alike and also the affected populous in a certain region.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device to provide a portable surface cleaning device that helps rapidly generate and process information from various locations such as town surfaces, thus, helping scientific researchers and relevant agencies in dealing and finding rapid combative solutions for such surface-borne microbial problems and suspicious threats that may arise, then sharing these remedial information with relevant personnel of the affected or afflicted groups of a regional block or country concerned, and including sharing such information with biopharmaceutical and cleaning agent manufacturing companies.

• To provide a surface cleaning device that will provide people with a cleaning device which satisfies a long existing need.

Another object of this patent disclosure is to provide a method for rapid detection of microorganisms, that is, the microbe's origin, emergence and evolutionary genetics for virulence using a method that is simple, easy to use, cheap to manufacture and install, and can identify a plurality of samples.vector borne transmitters such as sand-flies, mosquitoes, tsetse flies, fleas, rats, mites, ticks, cockroaches mice, and other vermin that can transmit virulent microorganisms that can be traced on floor surfaces and from chemicals emitted by their carcasses, exoskeleton shedding, eggs or their waste droppings which can then be collected and analysed instantaneously by the microbial screening device working within the cleaning device when cleaning a surface, and the collected sample data or biological sample information digitized and telemetrically sent to a central-hub. However, the sample can be kept in a sterile casing within the microbial cartridge for further incubatory development of culture, or later analysis at a laboratory. Another object and advantage of the cleaning device is that it can combine efficient cleaning design plans by formula. For example, to suit

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different environments, time of day, night, months and seasons of the year depending on a specific want of a certain organisation or firm, is discussed further below.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a simple and easy to use instrument and method therein for rapid quantification of microorganism growth that can be scanned automatically and electronically to detect such growth and digitizing the information to be used within the memory of a computer system based locally or at a remote international central-hub. A further object and advantage of the present invention disclosed herein is to provide a simple and easy to use portable instrument with method for rapid quantification of microorganism growth that can be scanned automatically and electronically for example, carrying out urinalysis tests to detect the presence or content of sugar in urine, iron, white blood cclls which would sum to infection of the urinary system, protein level, worms infection, when used while, for example, cleaning a babies faecal waste matter using a palm sized battery driven cleaning device that then automatically sends the data telemetrically to a computer system stationed locally at home or a hospital or a computer may be stationed in a far away or remote central-hub for comparative assessment and relay of an urological remedial feedback or further advise to the child's parent.

Other premises that could benefit from the above bacteriological screening aspect of the cleaning device disclosed herein are pharmaceutical and biotechnological culture generating firms, dining and kitchen tables, industrial labs, biobanks, broiler flock farms, cosmeceutical firms, domestic animal waste collecting apparatus and floor surfaces, biocontrolled sterile greenhouses growing plants such as a tomato, lettuce, cucumber, roses etc. It may be also possible to embed miniature RFID tags into the body of the cleaning device that communicate with location based RFID tags embedded inside door entrances for of different buildings, so that real time monitoring of set out sequential cleaning patterns and plans that can then be followed promptly by a cleaning operative using the cleaning device during a cleaning cycle in an establishment are followed without any alteration, omissions or discrepancies. RFID chips embedded within the body of cleaning device may help to prevent theft of cleaning agents and the cleaning device itself. In addition, RFID systems may be used to find the best efficient time or rota most suitable for carrying out cleaning cycles in a given firm or establishment to minimise disruption or crowdedness.

Proceeding, the most effective technique of controlling nosocomial infection presently is to strategically implement thorough planning and design procedures for carrying out cleaning cycles such as comprehensive observatory reshuffling, rotation and renewal of exhausted or long used cleaning procedures and devices thereof. An advantage of using the cleaning device is that tedious periodic tasks for example translocation of cleaning equipment, involved in these cleaning rotational programmes can be avoided since the cleaning device comes equipped with a method of cleaning by combining efficient cleaning design plans by formula for example, for different times of the day, temperature, weather, season etc., that can be stored once into the device's memory chip which is a feature that most prior art wet cleaning apparatus that hold a permanently fixed immovable and unsanitizable under-hanging

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squeegee coupled with minimal choice of methods and patterns of surface cleaning do not possess. Thus, with the capability of the,present patent disclosure hereto possess different functions of combining efficient cleaning design plans by formula is an especially vital advantage over prior art wet and dry cleaning apparatus.

A main advantage of having the combining efficient cleaning design plans by formula is to puzzle microbial conducive growth pattern and atmosphere thereby destroying it whilst simultaneously collecting quantificational logs of microbes before and after the cleaning cycle. Another advantage is that since people coming from all walks of life and modes of transport and weather patterns therewith, thus, there is inherently more water left by shoe marks of the visiting people during busy visiting hours leaving more liquid on the hospital and laboratory floor surface which is especially critical due to conducive indoor temperature that would increase rapid biofilm proliferation and further dispersion via other factors including evaporation that would subsequently raise any particles of a hazardous nature including microbes and fungus collected by visiting peoples shoes from far out the hospital and into the hospital premises. For examplef on Monday 18lh 2010, the front headline page of the Daily Mail Newspaper headed 'Sickness bugs hits 500,000 victims' whereby as a result of the norovirus spread, cancelling operations, wards shut and visitors turned away as the virus cases swamp many NHS hospitals. Scientists feared that the strain spread as a result of the biggest snowfall and freeze to hit the UK in 30 years. On the 11th August 2010, broadcasting media in the UK reported that international travel and medical tourism helped the spread of a new drug-resistant bacterium. The emergence of the new gene, NDM-1, makes bacteria to be highly resistant to almost all antibiotics as it can live inside bacteria making them highly resistant to antibiotics. NDM-1 spread in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh before emerging in around 50 cases from the UK, who travelled to India or Pakistan for medical procedures including cosmetic surgery. It is feared that NDM-1 could be the next MRSA and the prospects of NDM-1 spreading worldwide is alarming because of its potential to spread and diversify among bacterial populations.

Thus, thorough infection control procedures and vigilance will be heightened in all hospitals. Thus, cleaning device can be able to use a different programme that may include steaming the main hospital and laboratory entrance mats without having to manually change or interchange any cleaning parts or attachments of the device's cleaning head in order to carry out different tasks of cleaning a mat which is an added advantage over prior art wet and dry cleaning apparatus that do only one precise task. Also the cleaning device would change to different programme with perhaps a stronger detergent specific to the waste floor water from such wet and wintery months, for example, when the wet weather brings along slugs, toads and eggs thereof in mass on the streets surfaces, which can be a source of among other dangerous waterborne diseases e.g. sporadic bilharzias and cholera. Thus, it may be possible for the device to detect such moments or busy hospital period visiting times and notching up a level for a more comprehensive cleaning approach on a busier day or busy visiting hours, automatically. It may also be possible for cleaning device to have an on-screen display

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system to show progress on a cleaning cycle as well as show simulation demonstration and projections of a cleaning cycle beforehand so that the adequate and correct cleaning products are fed into it and at the correct feeding station controlled by RFID prompts betwixt the cleaning device and the storage cabinet locks and the container caps on the body of the cleaning device. An advantage of this sort of caution ir busy environments such as hospital and restaurants whereby for example, the gleaning personnel intermingling in a rush with other personnel such as the public mixing with waitresses or doctors and visitors in hospitals, is in order to avoid feeding the wrong cleaning agent to the device or leaving cleaning chemicals unattended-which can lead to mishaps as reported widely in the recent past when a restaurant serving attendant confused a bleach container for a water container consequently serving a little child with a glass of bleach instead of that of water which consequently gave the child third degree burns to the whole of her upper alimentary canal, can be avoided.

Combining efficient cleaning design plans by formula, and including among other factors discussed such as the benefits of simulation on the cleaning device can provide significant designing efficient and cleaning plans by analysis with optimum performance being derived from the cleaning device whilst at the same time deriving cost effectiveness in the production of inventories of detergents and machine maintenance parts on the onscreen display or alternatively from a general computer screen linked temporarily via cable to the cleaning device's peripheral interface port. ^

Determining different types of stresses and analyse individual load that is incorporated within memory saved in a computer memory and RFID tags with prior tested plans and procedures can allow for efficient implementation of precision cleaning devices, cleaning methods and cleaning agents thereby providing preparedness and thorough plans of infection control hazards of the sanitization of surfaces to be carried out automatically and precisely onto a broad type of surfaces precisely to the purpose of the premises in need without error. Further, the cleaning device shall help in the provision of regular updated and best available reinforcement of scientific recommendations for planning, vigilance and countermeasures or preparedness in dealing with known microbial threats of endemic or pandemic nature as knowledge and information regarding microbial nosological and genomic traits are constantly drifting and progressing rapidly globally.

Therefore, continued updates and amendments of previous evidential bases with regular reviews of comparative newly acquired epidemiological samples from regional sites of various floor surface diagnostic reports and or floor surface diagnostic databases as telemetrically disseminated by numerous cleaning devices telecommunicating with a central-hub can be a basic necessity in aiding in the revisions of plans, projection models, simulation maps and accumulative trajectories from newer statistical evidences, which is highly fundamental at all levels of research and development in the entire field of microbiological studies of communicable diseases in human, flora and fauna. Therefore, the cleaning device in this patent disclosure is not limited only to floor surfaces but includes and is not limited to other cleaning devices in various other fields such as in the field of: a dental surgeon's and

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patient network which gathers information (patient teeth diagnostic reports and databases) using dental cleaning devices such as the electronic or manual toothbrush, a cleaning toothpick , orthodontic denture fitting and braces (for example, braces which monitor and relay real-time orthodontic cranial realignment), and sends the information to the dental surgeon telemetrically; or on the other hand sends the information telemetrically to the owner's personal computer ;or the electronic toothbrush stores such information in a USB-downloadable memory on said toothbrush so that one end of the toothbrush may be inserted into a computer's USB interface for personal storage of daily, weekly, monthly, dental information which can be used for making graphs, water type alerts; alert owner (feedback) about any dental emissions and diseases at earliest opportunity; monitor enamel density (and subsequent osteoporotic hints) and recommend milk intake; take close-up photos of suspect teeth (e.g cracked filling) too far to be seen; take video, live-video inspection of suspect teeth (e.g via a display connected to toothbrush via blue tooth) or against a computer connected to toothbrush via blue tooth or USB cable; monitor gastro-intestinal diseases via the tongue; monitoring whether children are brushing their teeth twice daily and for at least 2 minutes and 26 seconds and their sweeties intake; or to simply communicate (feedback) with their dentist or their personal dentist's computer network.

Since health hazards are common in widely used cleaning methodology and known to pose an immense risk in domestic homes, hospitals, laboratories and case operating rooms or theatres, children's nurseries and kindergartens, senior people's nursing homes, holiday cruise ships liners, food processing facilities and food preparation plants, eatery facilities, kitchens in domestic homes, supermarkets and lavatories where cleaning articles used for wet moping and drying floors can carry and transfer dangerous germs from place to place. Dirty and greasy mops and squeegees can spread contamination across floor surfaces. For example. Salmonella which causes food poisoning and known to stay alive on hard surfaces for over 24 hours, and other highly persistent and virulent multidrug resistant pathogens or drug-resistant microbes commonly known as superbugs, such as methicillin-resistant and methicill insusceptible staphylococcus commonly known as MRSA and MSSA, and Clostridium such as C.Difficile can be easily spread via wet cleaning of floors and kitchen table tops and other sanitary environments. Emerging new viruses such as influenza type A-H1N1 is known to live on hard surfaces for considerable lengths of time. Discussed further below is a more detailed section dedicated to a broader microbiological aspect, scope and potential advantages of the present invention's disclosed herein regarding the matter of human health, cleaner surfaces and surface cleaning.

• Another recent addition in the electrical wet floor c'eaning apparatuses in the home are the use of miniature battery driven autonomous robots. Other similar prior art wet cleaning apparatus that incorporate the use of such passive and stationary fixed squeegees or scraping blade as the final or last cleaning mechanism that makes contact on a surface being cleaned along a cleaning path are known to permit the transmission of dangerous infectious bacterium, fungal and viral elements odours that are left behind a cleaning

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surface through smearing and dragging stuck or flood in between floor patterns and building expansion joints crevices or grout-lines on floor surfaces. Dangerous bacterium and fungal elements such as E-coli, influenza type A H1N1, rhinovirus, rotavirus, norovirus, multidrug resistant staphylococcal MRSA and MSSA, C-Difficile, salmonella respiratory syncytial virus, athletes foot fungus, Campylobacter etc., can be smear-spread or carried from one location to another, for example, from ward-to-ward, room-to-room, building-to-building in schools, hospitals, laboratories, malls, food processing plants etc. Besides spreading dangerous microbes, these prior art wet cleaning apparatus that incorporate the use of stationary, cavity unyielding passively fixed squeegees or scraping blades as the final or last cleaning mechanism that makes contact with a surface being cleaned along the cleaning width's path of these devices leave streaks or smears contaminants such as particulates of dirt, odours, bacteria and harsh un-rinsed cleaning chemicals that are dragged across the surfaces from room to room and premises to premises. Such occurrences can be a risk to young cnildren who are at closer proximities with floor surfaces as they tend to crartvl and roll on the floor. The use of stationary passive doctor-blades or squeegees ridges on wet floor surface cleaning apparatus drag or smear-spread dangerous germs and bacterium like C-Difficile, salmonella, and used cleaning chemicals, harmful chemical odours and their dried chemical particulates around home floors which can be hazardous to young children who tend to crawl and roll on the floors.

• Traditional manual floor cleaning methods using bucket and mops, sponges, squeegees and wet cleaning machines incorporating the use of squeegees as the last cleaning mechanism across a cleaning width of a cleaning surface are known to smear-spread contaminants thru drag, in hospitals and laboratories, lunchrooms, nursing homes and nurseries, schools, cruise ships etc. For example, on the 24th February 2006, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported about increase of super bugs in hospitals. On the 12th June 2009, ITN/Yahoo news featured an article titled 'Government rapped over hospital bugs'. In this article, the government was accused of neglecting deadly hospital bugs as figures showed that infections were rising and were threatening to those who use the healthcare system. The hospital bugs mentioned here are multidrug resistant staphylococcal MRSA, Clostridium Difficile or C.Difficile, and MSSA. The same story was featured on the same day on BBC-TV lunchtime news. On Friday 24thJuly 2009, media reported that Nottingham's City Hospital had to recall 100 patients who had undergone heart operations after they contracted staphylococcus aureus bacteria leading to three lost lives. On the 7th January 2010, the BBCnews24 at 01.53am featured superbug or multidrug resistant microbes and in particular C.Difficile on ABC News America where statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that there were 100,000 fatalities each year from nosocomial or hospital-acquired infections and are mostly contributed by dirty floors and surfaces. In the programme, ABC News Senior Health and Medical Editor Dr Richard Besser said that the hospital acquired infections costs the USA billions of dollars and that it is growing acros&.the country. On 1st April 2010, page 10 of the

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Daily Express newspaper published in the UK reported about an outbreak of a new form of a hospital multidrug resistant strain called ESBL (Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase) Klebsiella, and that has caused a fatality. On the 11th August 2010, major news broadcasting media in the UK reported that international travel and medical tourism helped the spread of a new drug-resistant bacterium. The emergence of a new gene, New Dclhi-Metallo-1, or NDM-1, makes bacteria to be highly resistant to almost all antibiotics as this new gene can live inside bacteria making them highly resistant to antibiotics. NDM-1 spread in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh before emerging in around 50 cases from the UK, who travelled to India or Pakistan for medical procedures including cosmetic surgery. It is feared that NDM-1 could be the next MRSA and the prospects of NDM-1 spreading worldwide is alarming because of its potential to spread and diversify among bacterial populations. Thus infection control procedures and vigilance will be heightened in all hospitals.

• Stationary lips on prior art cleaning apparatuses such as vacuums, robots, squeegee mop and bucket, microfiber cleaners, kitchen-towels may drag, spread or smear grease and other contaminants over clean floors that may include viral and bacterium organisms and which can further be embedded in between the grain or relief design pattern crevice on the cleaning surface. Sedentary germs .stuck and left on and along the stationary doctor blade can pose a waiting germ distribution hazard.

• The absence of a provision to continuously sanitize the final or last cleaning component that comes into direct contact with the floor surface being cleaned along a cleaning path of the cleaning operation in robotic floor cleaners and other prior art wet cleaning devices which incorporate the use of stationary fixed squeegees or doctor blades as the final or last cleaning component that makes contact on a surface being cleaned along a cleaning path are known to permit the transmission of dangerous infectious bacterium, fungal and viral elements odours that are left pasted behind crevices, gaps, furrows of a cleaning surface by smearing and dragging. Such pasted micro-organisms may be transported to other rooms or locations via by people walking on the surfaces, or the micro-organisms may dry up and blow into the dust or may be suspended within vapour droplets as the floor dries. Subsequently, dangerous bacterium and fungal elements such as C-Difficile, E-coli, salmonella, influenza type A^HINI, rhinovirus, rotavirus, MRSA, MSSA, respiratory syncytial virus, athletes foot fungus, Campylobacter can be smear-spread or carried from one location to another, for example, from ward-to-ward, room-to-room, building-to-building in schools, hospitals, malls, airports, food processing plants etc, causing infections.

• Besides spreading dangerous microbes, these prior art wet cleaning devices which incorporate the use of stationary, cavity unyielding fixed squeegees or doctor blades as the final or last cleaning component that makes contact on a surface being cleaned along a cleaning path of these device's cleaning operations can cause a variety of allergies, skin

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reactions and bronchial ailments due to the un-rinsed uncollected smeared-dragged and dried fine particulates, odours emissions and residues of used cleaning detergents and chemicals left upon a cleaning surface. Such occurrences can be a risk to young children who are at closer proximities with floor surfaces as they tend to crawl and roll on the floor.

• Microfiber refill mops transmit or carry hazardous microbes across floor surfaces and from one room to another in the same way archaic conventional bucket and mop method does.

Thus, one of the main objects of this invention disclosed in this patent is to provide a self-washing or self-cleaning microbial screening element for a surface cleaning device capable of unattended monitoring and sampling of microbes carried in a gaseous, liquid or biofilm medium on a cleaning surface, and the cleaning device being capable of easy and simple recurrent use by unskilled persons without the need for careful control of sterile conditions in handling the cartridge of the cleaning device. That is, a microbial screening element working independently or interdependently within the cleaning device to serve as a primary microbe testing device or as an early warning or alert system that is easy to use, requires no extensive or costly training for associated cleaning operatives, and can be used by people in domestic settings, and by employees who have little or no scientific background.

Another object of the invention is to provide a microbial screening device which is more suitable for commercial production and use. The microbial screening device may therefore come in a variety of operational ways thafmay be partially manual or fully automatic. For example, the shell of the cartridge may be adapted for reuse, that is, the cartridge may be recyclable thru being constantly sent back to a cartridge refilling depository firm for refill where culture strip substance or replacement of new cartridges and components are undertaken. Such a cartridge may be fixedly located in a region of the cleaning device's body that is likely to being exposed to liquids collected from the cleaning surface so that a microbial screening element inside the cartridge may come into contact with microbial elements in the liquid suspension. An exposure window may be provided within the cartridge so that a limited portion of a microbial screening element can be exposed to the flow of liquids upon which screening is desired. The cartridge is enclosed to maintain itself and its screening contents sterile prior to insertion within the body of the cleaning device. The window on the cartridge may permit exposure of pathogenic or other non-pathogenic microbes present in the liquid collected from the cleaning surface to the microbial screening element inside the cartridge.

The cartridge may be placed in the body of the cleaning device's in such a way that the fluid can flow intermittently or at a predetermined frequency into a specimen collection liquid container for sample collection of the liquid from the floor or and can be automatically or manually briefly taken in a minute quantity such as a specimen drop or swab or continuously diverted to the microbial screening element inside the cartridge or by a predetermined

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electronic means of taking swabs from a surface being cleaned. The microbial screening element within the cartridge may contain a means to communicate the findings of any microbial presence and type of bacteria in a particular floor surface by displaying an electronic message on the body of the cleaning device or by changing the colour. For example, a pre-treated strip of material concealed in a supply reel and exposed at the cartridge window to bacterial and viral elements from the floor surface. Also, a variety of warnings such as colour codes, audio alarm, or by further more comprehensive analysis/evaluation from a laboratory so as to keep a log and communicate the findings of the condition of the floor surface being cleaned can be used for communicating the findings with a cleaning operative. The cartridge may take samples of the floor surface before the cleaning device applies any cleaning agents and the samples taken held in incubation. Incubation may allow for proliferation of the different microbes providing further analysis of the microbial sample, and comparative analysis within a sterile confinement. In another aspect, the cartridge may be configured to automatically take swabs of the cleaning surface before and after the cleaning cycle of the cleaning device upon a cleaning surface.

The cleaning device may also use a microbial processing system that converts the organic sample collected from a floor surface into a digital sample signature and matches the digital sample signature with an existing database of known surface-borne and air-borne microbial substances previously stored within the memory of a microchip within the microbial screening element. Thus, such findings or information regarding the microbial state of the floor can be downloaded or fed into a computer system by way of connecting a cable from the computer system to a peripheral interface port on the external surface of the cleaning device, or via wireless and or telemetric interfaces between the computer system and the cleaning device. The cartridge may also be configured to be automatically or be manually fed with liquid samples from different rooms or premises, then storing or culturing them for incubational proliferation purposes for collection by a laboratory technician who manually analyses the samples to detect the presence of microbes and periodic logging recording, printing and archival purposes. ,

Therefore, the microbial screening device working within a cleaning device may have a memory microchip with previously in-stored knowledge of known characteristics such microbial signatures, or chemicals or substances emitted or consumed by a particular microbes, or unique metamorphosing patterns or it can look for specific biological content of suspicious substances of weaponizable biohazardous capabilities such as Ebola, anthrax, Q fever, Congo fever, smallpox, and other chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear substances, then being able to communicate the findings or collected data from a surface being cleaned via telemetric means such as via various internet protocols, wireless radio wave, microwave methods like SMS, mobile web, RFID, GPS transmissions or various other devices with message routing systems and networking features then collaboration between such two-way systems with the central-hub. The central-hub stores database made from previously stored conglomeration of information about microbes and related diverse information collected from different floor surfaces from premises and locations of different fields, climates and backgrounds, then the information comparatively assessed in queue stacks at the analysis central-hub which may be locatable remotely locally or internationally, for example; a remote automatic wireless collaboration between a floor surface in an airport via an autonomous or non-autonomous cleaning device and a microbial and powders of

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unknown origin analysing database centre or central-hub. A microbial and substance screening network between a chain of international hotels and a holiday cruise ship liners company. A microbial and substance screening network betwixt a sky scraper building and an underground train station or terminus in a city or town. A microbial and substance screening network betwixt an aircraft cleaning depot and a global ports authority, a train-care depot and an airport immigration and emigrational gateway, microbial screening network between children's animal farms and a children schools. More on the telemetric capabilities of the cleaning device is discussed further below. Meanwhile, microbial screening device may also be configurable to be able to cite or mention the time date and location from which an unknown or particular type of microbe or suspicious biohazard or powders of unknown origin or radioactive substances were discovered or found, thereby triggering a rapid and adequate first responder to the impending threat. It may therefore be possible to have an effortless scheduled microbial screening device and facility that stores a daily or precise periodic log of the type of microbes found in different premises and the time and date that it is discovered, as well as foresee, and to raise alarm of hazardous incubatory patterns of microbial elements considered present in a premises. Speed is of the essence since faster detection of microbes allows faster application of appropriate measures. Simplicity, reliability and low cost are factors of paramount importance. These advantages may best be obtained in automated instrumental systems that can be merged. Thus, there exists a need for a rapid instrumental system for detecting microbes on a surface being cleaned in a sterile or non-sterile establishment and the invention disclosed i if this patent satisfies that need.

In relative view and background of the above perspective, the aspect and template of the microbial screening device, working in conjunction with the cleaning device may be highly needed in sanitarian premises such as hospitals, nursing home, schools, holiday cruise ship liners, food industrial production facilities, laboratories etc., that are industries that continue to suffer from sanitary challenges and could highly benefit from the potential capacity of the inclusion of a microbial screening device provided and operating within the present invention disclosed herein of the cleaning device.

Therefore, the addition of a microbial screening device within the body of the cleaning device is a vital provision, as microbiological safety is highly required for steadily monitoring bacteria levels within the entire food industries, such that, strict biosecurity standards are administered from embryonic stage of food production to food harvest, and throughout the food chain in order to reduce or completely eliminate food-borne illnesses from the producer or farmer, to the food production and processing factories and further along stationery and transportable refrigerated warehouses, distribution chambers, vehicles and finally to caterers and retailers, before the food reaches the general public. In such premises, factories, and cold stores have vast volumes of floors, walls and ceiling surface area that need constant cleaning to rid them of conducive incubatory and microbial elements. Early detection of the existence of dangerous microbes in a particular facility, premises or region will aid in their rapid solution. Continuous monitoring of activities of hazardous microbial signatures, types, families and genus's is vital in identifying dangerous microbes, their presence/absence and populations on floor surfaces of premises such as dairy produce factories, abattoir or slaughterhouses and meat preparation plants, cutting plants factories, game handling

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establishments, poultry products and relative cold stores and mobile transport facilities. Monitoring surfaces in these facilities closely will show at what time during the day or night hostile microorganisms became present. Correlating this information with information as to which batch or consignment of raw materials or transport module or staff shift arrived and was used at that time will permit the problem to be rapidly narrowed down and solved. Further correlation of such information with countywide, countrywide or international remote central microbiological biostation base or central-hub would help in the case of an emergence of a new or unknown microbe or variant being automatically detected early, perhaps and advantageously, before any further embryorfic developments takes place.

Radio-frequency identification more commonly known as RFID's are used across a wide spectrum of applications and in many different industries around the world. Therefore, the use of radio waves for the purpose of identification and tracking down objects and substances may be ideally incorporated into the aspect of microbial and non-microbial microscopic substance surveillance or monitoring working incorporation with other cleaning components within the cleaning device. RFID devices mostly contain two basic parts. One is an integrated circuit for reading information or the responder, while the other is an antenna for receiving and transmitting a signal or the transponder. Some RFIDs have more complex requirements since most can be tailor made for specific needs within a company. Within this invention, the integrated circuit of the RFID reader or responder may be embedded inside the body of the cleaning device while the other part or the RFID tag or transponder may be embedded into or on a stationary location such as a door frame in the entrance of separate room or premises or under the tiles, so that communication at close range between the cleaning device and the hidden RFID tag provokes or asks the RFID reader to prompt the microbial screening device within the cleaning device to take a swab of the cleaning surface every time the cleaning device comes within range of a preconfigured wavelength emitted back by the hidden RFID tag. Further, the RFID devices can be connected wirelessly to communicate information to and fro with a computer server stationed locally or remotely.

Thus, employing the use of a RFID system to work in conjunctional prompts with the microbial screening device operating within the cleaning device to perform swabbing and screening operations shall provide unique efficiency and raise the hygiene level of surfaces in rooms within sterile or non-sterile establishments. This novel application would also be a vital and needed provision to domestic premises and larger premises relying on the cleaning industry devices. The capability of the microbial screening device working within the cleaning device and configured to provide frequent periodic and accurate logs of the precise conditions of the scientific hygienic state of surfaces at domestic, commercial and industrial establishments is paramount especially in any busy large establishment where high numbers of people are present and where standards of hygiene have to be adhered to.

It may be needed in the domestic households to help parents monitor the hygienic standard of the surfaces of their homes, as well as to measuring the level or amount of various living and non-living microscopic substances such as dust fumes, fungus, pollen, humidity, odours,

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twge so virus, fibres, smoke and soot in the ambient air. In the meantime, microbial logs undertaken by the cleaning device during scheduled cleaning cycles within sterile sensitive sites and establishments such as the industrial food production and healthcare establishments could provide added advantage in promoting cleanliness levels by monitoring, reducing or completely preventing dangerous microbial elements from developing into subsequent infection hazards. Since RFIDs can be highly miniaturized, it is possible to place two-way communicatory RFID devices with memory in concealed points or areas within the body of the cleaning device or on the microbial screening device therein, or essentially, on the surfaces of the premises being cleaned. Placing RFID tags in strategic positions like door frames and floor surfaces in room entrances to relay information and commands between the tag and chip readers placed inside the cleaning device could improve cleaning and bacteria screening capabilities by allowing for such complex operations as prompting a sequential automatic microbial floor screening whenever a new room is entered or exited. More complex RFID devices may be utilized in the present invention herein.

Such RFID devices may have the capability to carry more complex tasks such as precise positioning of the microbial case, and detailed logging of screened premises. Still, complex RFID devices may have also vast memory and the capacity to process complex wide variety of data and store received data telemetrically from or within the microbial screening device, about the suspect microbe lurking in a premises, and may include details such as the origin, emergence and evolutionary genetics of virulent microbes and or further quantification, taxonomy, nosographic and prognosis of an encountered and collected known or unknown microbial sample or specimen, an automatic alert system and without the need for human intervention or knowledge of sample collection schedules during a cleaning exercise when using the cleaning device herein, is a crucial aspect of this invention disclosure herein. Such are like the Mobile RFID or M-RFID which can be installed which can be installed within body of the cleaning device and transmitting information to a wide area, advantageously removing need for dozens of fixed RFID tags in every room say in a hospital environment. In the meantime, the basic RFID reader and tag (general transponder and respondent communicatory transceiver) may have capabilities to rapidly perform complex integration processes and analysis of digitized sample data information between embedded RFID tags in strategic positions like door frames, floors and RFID readers for provoking sample collection by the microbial screening device working within the body of the cleaning device and even further communicating wirelessly with a remote computer system or central-hub, will help to;

• initiate set up, development and implement of a global vision for a surface-borne microbe monitoring network infrastructure that receives surface-borne microbe samples collected from diverse cleaning surfaces around the world using relatively cheap means that do not require any expensive microbial monitoring methods or hardware installations then such information converged into a central-hub which performs high frequency automatic comparative analysis using ways such'as algorithmic digital data processing, verifying and quantifying microbial signatures and patterns, and relaying such information to

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relevant product end-user recipients globally,

• generate effortless involuntary microbial screening operation during a cleaning cycle whereby systematic logging of vital details such as the scheduled time of cleaning, date, ambient temperature and humidity of room and surface being cleaned, type of cleaning cycle done, type of cleaning agents or chemicals used, the taxonomical, nosographical and prognosis details of the collected surface-borne microbe sample and quantity of suspect microbe sample found on the floor surface before and after the cleaning cycle is carried out, and results or conclusion thereof displayed on the exterior surface of the cleaning device or printed or sent telemetrically or by wire connection to a secondary computerised data processing and storage device,

• initiate setup framework system for live global microbial database tool with standardised interactive microbial testing, automatic self-diagnostic and alerting procedures and having product end-user feedback provision enabling the network to evolve and improve, for example, having feedback-loop and associative connections; that is, communications of information received from the central hub, and then such information being discussed by end-user and other users of the cleaning^Jevice across vast regions on the internet,

• to set up an interactive microbe spatial epidemiological internet web tool for the establishment, tracking and trailing (preliminary outbreak reconnaissance) circulation of different microbial strains and activities including properties of their transforming genomic progressions and regressions displayed, and the information can be layered upon currently available free internet global mapping resources in a simple easy to understand format,

• to setup, develop and implement framework for a microbial vigilance or surveillance program to monitor awareness, knowledge, and use among bioengineers, bioresearchers and the public of microbial genomic analysis and related disease(s) in a globalised scale and findings easily translated into public health improvements,

• automatically issue an audio or visual warning about any dangerous microbes detected on the surface at a particular premises that the cleaning Jevice has been , or is cleaning at the time, ^

• collect surface samples of liquids and gaseous medium from floor surface and ambient air for further microbiological analysis by relevant reviewers such as cleaning agent manufacturers and bioscientific researchers,

• aid relevant health protection biostation and joint-multi-agency health planners in setting up national and international frameworks for operational response and arrangements in dealing with microbial threats of endemic and pandemic dispositions,

• reduce the amount of nosocomial infections caused by surface transmissible diseases in hospitals, and other sites, thereby reducing antibiotic overuse which would subsequently reduce, slow down or stop the further cyclical progression and development of harsher

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bacteria resistance to antibiotics, such as MRSA, C.Difficile and other strains, and in return strengthen humans immune system to fight the pathogens,

• collecting surface samples of liquids and gaseous medium from floor surface for later proliferation of different microbial genus via incubation, and also chemical profiling of other non-microbial micro-substances for toxicity analysis,

0 collect samples of liquids and gases from the floor surface and ambient air, for example, the possibility to smell ignitable fluids in ambient air or if such ignitable substances precipitate on a floor surface such as that of a food processing firm thereby notifying relevant responders Uhat there may be a leak or spill of a certain hazardous chemical within the vicinity of their company premises at a certain specific location or at a certain grid reference,' providing a company such action could save the company huge authoritarian fines if the hazardous liquids found their way to the storm drains, or worse off, cause a fire,

• generating automatic displays visually or audibly, and storing accurate real-time 24-hours a day readings of the condition of the surface being cleaned before, during and after the cleaning operation, then storing the information for printing, histogram comparative and analytical purposes, empirical studies etc.,

• providing frequent telemetric updates that shall provide an automated easy, cost-effective and convenient way to keep track of the hygienic conditions of surfaces in domestic and commercial premises as well as monitor the presence or absence of hazardous microbes therein,

• providing frequent telemetric updates and software upgrades for installation into numerously spread cleaning device's memory directly from the central microbiological biostation or central-hub, or alternatively, for the updates to be downloaded from a computer system that receives the information via email from a central-hub regarding the particular cleaning device, updates may include the state of dirt filters in the cleaning device, and of other working components that may need replacements or cleaning, news of an emerging or sporulation of a certain microbe signature that needs constant vigilant trailing and monitoring,

• providing frequent telemetric updates and software driver upgrades for installation into numerously spread cleaning devices from a remote technical operations location so that updates perform scheduled checks for availability of new or updated software (say, about a certain cleaning pattern that needs to be widely matched for a uniform concerted cleaning technique to destroy a certain suspect progressing microbe affected by seasonal, climatic and or regional changes and using a specific cleaning agent) the cleaning device may be in need of ensuring that the cleaning device continues to operate at the highest level of performance,

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providing constantly flowing information or live surveillance about the origin, emergence and evolutionary genetics of virulent microbes which are known and unknown,

allow time space for planned early evacuations, quarantine, mass vaccinations and immunization, fumigation and deep cleansing exercises,

provide a microbial network that may be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike, and to assist users to identify relevant risk matter, evaluate technical information and develop responses to microbial matters for regulatory formal approval and application,

planning well timed or staggered during cleaning cycles, exercises and rotas so that known microbes can be destroyed before accomplishing specific embryonic incubatory period,

prompt cleaning staff audits of infection control practices,

accurate and precise log details of time, building number or name, room numbers or name, and calendar dates of when the cleaning operation is taking place, type of cleaning cycle done, type of cleaning agents used as well as identification of the classification of microbes found on the surface being cleaned, quantity of the microbes and identification of the cleaning operative or staff doing the work,

elimination of human error, for example, the chances of missing to clean a particular premises is highly reduced,

allow fast adaptation and flexibility in detecting and 'dentifying new microbial substances while keeping low false alarm rates,

bypass or forgo unnecessary paperwork such as manually signed notice boards for verification that a cleaning operation has taken place in a certain room(s),thus eliminating possibility of alterations,

automatically aid in automatic cleaning cycle settings such as, accurate settings for cleaning agent or detergents concentrations that are correct and precisely effective for a particular cleaning need or contaminant,

logging maintenance accessories automatically via sensors which helps in inventory stock taking thus avoiding human discrepancies such as forgetting, negligence, thereby eliminating the prospect of fraudulent practises and alterations thereof,

releasing reconnaissance feedback to the regarded party or recipient of the cleaning device herein, telemetrically thus providing assistant to an organisation or region afflicted and relevant steps to take, the data may also include secondary details, for example that of the epidemiological prognosis of a certain sporadic microbe discovered on a floor surface

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in a certain location of a premises during a particular season of the year, and steps to be undertaken, such steps may include a plan on how to quarantine or inoculate a certain populous, does and don'ts e.g. don't drrfik contaminated water etc., tell-tale symptoms of a given disease, how to carry out a simplified diagnosis test of a given disease, etc. However, the preliminary feedback must be relative to mass psychology behavioral science, so that anticipation and understanding of how a certain populace is likely to react. This is so especially when such a people are confronted with such information being disseminated from a major public health ministerial network to individuals in a society via their mobile phones SMS/texts or short messaging services, so as not to send the people from that socio-culture into an ensuing pandemonium, as short messages can tend to be ambiguous therefore easily misinterpreted and misunderstood causing panic and mass nosophobia,

• automatically performing scheduled microbial screening operation tasks on the surface being cleaned, logging and storage of the time and date, processing sample substances of encountered microbes and related projections of nosographical prognosis, presence or absence of microbial concentration and quantification, species and classifications of microbes encountered or comprehensively evaluating taxonomical analysis, surrounding adaptability elements conducive to microbial developments such as ambient temperature, moisture, humidity, surface condensation, floor temperature, then automatically comparing such information against previously stored preferred patterns or information, then using methods such as pattern recognition algorithms to pick out differences or discrepancies, then collaborating any such peculiar information telemetrically or wirelessly to a central remote computerised sharing location or central-hub for further analytical assessments of such a conglomeration of information collected by numerous cleaning devices from far and wide locations, then in response, the central remote computerised sharing location or central-hub may automatically releases information such as combative solutions and action or augmenting alert levels to prompt a first responder, provision of methods and procedure of dealing with an outbreak, upgrade surface cleaning methods and cleaning agents to-be implemented for specific threats, treatment of such surfaces and locations and best appropriate treatment of infected humans, animals or plants. One advantage of the above aspect is that port authorities can collaborate with counterpart regulatory enforcement agencies by using the same template or framework set up herein, in tracing classified drugs such as cocaine and suspicious powders of unknown origin,

Hence, the conglomeration of information gathered by the cleaning device in this manner can be used to generate a floor surface diagnostic report. The floor surface diagnostic report may help to provide rapid clear details of the gnotobiotic conditions before and after a cleaning operation and bring to awareness the presence of any pathogenic or non-pathogenic microbial elements present on surfaces such as floors, walls, ceilings, worktops etc., within a sterile or non-sterile establishment. The floor surface diagnostic report may be also able to compare

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results via a computer programme configured to compare a plurality of samples with an original sample, for example, one determined as below a certain threshold of danger or vice versa, that is the floor surface diagnostic report may be also able to compare a plurality of results with an original sample determined as above the threshold of danger within a computer integrating or processing system prior to providing or displaying a result of its findings. The floor surface diagnostic report may be ablt to automatically identify the type of known microbes found and from which origin, genus and families wherefrom, that is, by automatically performing taxonomical, pathogenetic and nosographical assessment of known and emerging microbes so that a speedy and specific response is implemented. The floor surface diagnostic report may be stored in a digital format in a memory device such as a microchip within the cartridge of the microbial screening device and adaptable to being retrieved from the cleaning device via a removable memory stick or an extended cable connected to the peripheral interface port, however, the interface port may be a wireless connection, or telemetric, and then the information stored into a computer memory system. The stored information of the floor surface diagnostic report may be configured into a floor surface diagnostic database.

The floor surface diagnostic database may be reviewed periodically by relevant assessors or authorities on a weekly, fortnightly monthly, quarterly etc., basis depending on diverse factors and relating to the backgrounds of the fields of such establishments and needs thereof. The information of the floor surface diagnostic database may be used for a variety of purposes such as generating publications, pie-chart, computer programmes, trend-lines, graph illustrations, histograms, trailing microbial developments and origins, training and teaching purposes, microbial experimentations and endeavours, seeking prognosis for medical interventions, efficient and timely manufacture of drugs batch, analytical and statistical publications, projection models, spatial disease mapping and or microbial clustering within regional borders, microbe-satellite mapping and or microbe-satellite genotyping details of afflicted areas and response planning, proper infection-prevention measures, distribution of feedback to other related joint agents such as first responders, bioscientific organisations, bio-universities, relevant global bodies, medical and cleaning agent manufacturing companies in order to enable prior planning and execution of rapid robust concerted frameworks for dealing with a future microbial threats in a nationally or internationally scale.

Thus, the capacity to automatically collect and digitize sample data about the microbial condition of a surface being cleaned b^ the cleaning device outweighs the hygienic capabilities of prior art cleaning apparatus because the sample information contained in the floor surface diagnostic report gathered from the cleaning device can help to plan for the best mode of action required to resolve a microbial problem or threat.

An advantage of taking scheduled or frequented samples of floor surface diagnostic report while using the cleaning device is that continued updates of the microbiological condition of a particular floor surface or other surface within a particular location is kept known by relevant assessors. Thus, a conglomeration of numerous floor surface diagnostic report from

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different companies can help to set up a floor surface diagnostic databases from such different companies from different regions and even countries, thereby helping in establishing robust frameworks between, and for such establishments, organisations, government and global co-operation betwixt governments to strategically plan and collectively respond to microbial or other such threats and how best those countermeasures may be implemented, such countermeasures as vaccination, evacuation or quarantine, access to site etc. Another advantage of incorporating a microbial screening device within a cleaning device is that basic floor surface diagnostic reports and floor surface diagnostic databases from different companies and countries of diverse backgrounds can help via computerization to quickly retrace steps or pinpoint the origination of a progressing microbial element possessing crtdemic or pandemic capabilities. Also, incorporating a microbial screening device working within the cleaning device would provide floor surface diagnostic reports and floor surface diagnostic databases from different companies, localities, counties, countries and continents helping to rapidly narrow or track down, follow, trail or keep up with the progress and development of shape-shifting and new emerging or mutating microbes with virulent pandemic capabilities.

Below is an example of a transcript undertaken between the cleaning device at a certain location and a remotely located central-hub;

Telemetric Surface-borne Microbe Monitoring Support Link Network

During a specified periodical frequency, report sample data collected from a floor surface is sent on a queuing telemetric network for collaboration between the sample floor surface diagnostic report data information provided by a cleaning device at a certain remote site to a microbial data integrating and comparative processor or central-hub. The sample data is computerized and may be further comparatively checked against known microbial signatures or named digital codes of such microbes for presence or non-presence of such microbes, microbial populations, conditions conducive for microbial development such as ambient air and floor dampness, humidity, condensation, floor temperatures, checking for specific named codes for known pathogenic microbes present or absent on the cleaned surface against a stored database(s) or floor surface diagnostic database, and the severity of the microbial codes provided. The sample may be identifiable via comparative digital sample signature matching by processors within the lone operating microbial screening device which work on a template of ihe condition of what a hygienic floor should be, a resultant comparative differentiation is provided, and such results sent telemetrically via radio waves, microwaves, GPS data Iransmisskfns, internet protocol, paging devices etc., so that such information may be shared with relevant authorities or such information sent to a central-hub for further analysis, histogram generation, printing, wide dissemination to relevant groups and archival purposes. The sample identification process may also

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occur when pattern recognition algorithms process the received digital signature sample and match it with an existing database of substances stored central-hub's database. The central-hub may be local and national government or a global centre where all such information is converged. Thence, a feedback report with recommended actions to be undertaken may be relayed back to the specific cleaning device working at a certain site via a wireless or telemetric methods, internet protocol address registered against the licensed cleaning device, for the purpose^of a remedial feedback for the particular cleaning device that generated the suspect sample of the floor surface diagnostic report by a particular cleaning device from a certain site. The feedback may contain exchange of information, experiences and tips from other users of the cleaning device. Information such as the necessary steps to undertake about a specific threat encountered or for the recommended cleaning chemical to be used for a certain microbe or type of dirt, or for actions that may need to be refrained or encouraged in a certain affliction of a site, vicinity or premises may be provided. Other information that may be sent in this method may include the name and version and serial number of the cleaning device, supplementary info such as product updates for parts, newer model versions, and custom-made current microbial maps and updated seasonal cleaning formulas, weather forecasts, trend-lines, statistical graphs, histograms and pie-charts for a certain establishment. Advertisements and news updates, microbial epidemiological models and ongoing studies thereof updates of toxicological reports, updates and awareness about latest cleaning chemicals, updates of unknown and known microbes found in a particular location or country may be sent: in this way to a specific user(s) of the cleaning device in the industrial and domestic markets.

Thus some of the objects of the present invention disclosed herein are to provide a surface cleaning device which shall help protect biodiversity by preventing the destruction of forests habitat which results in droughts, floods, soil denudation and emanation of hazardous microbial substances from the tampered biodiversity infecting man, flora and fauna; a surface cleaning device which shall endeavour to set up computerised mainframe network template that shall unveil the understanding of critical information which shall aid bioresearchers in microbial etiological and epidemiological studies in rapidly discovering and understanding transmission pathways of the different microbial clones, monitoring and trailing different disease causing microbes found in various remote sites by numerously scattered surface cleaning devices across diverse climatic and geographical regions around the world early enough before an outbreak occurs; a surface cleaning device which shall help in the early discovery, development and production of more potent antibiotics, vaccines and cleaning agents for destroying known and unknown emergent disease causing microbes and their mutated/re-assorted progenies around the world.

Below is a tabular example of a resultant feedback from a previously telemetrically sent off floor surface diagnostic report to a central-hub for processing in regard to the microbial status

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of the suspect floor surface that was cleaned by the cleaning device. Theoretically, such a table in the central-hub may have been superseded' by layers of numerous previous 'tables' of samples of the same location or firm during a given period of time, thereby providing a compilation of a historical database or log for comparative analysis and accurate production of results whenever a certain discrepancy or inconsistency in the database occurs during the comparison of new incoming samples of a floor surface diagnostic reports against original stored samples of such floor surface diagnostic reports. After such an inconsistency is found and analysed, it may be interpreted as a threat and reported, thereby aiding in rapid provision of precise instructions gained from previously experienced threat elsewhere and stored in the database of the central-hub, and such instructions sent telemetrically as feedback back to the registered cleaning device that cleaned the suspect surface, or to an electronic communication protocol address registered for the particular cleaning device that cleaned the suspect surface that the feedback information is needed for its operator.

Each row is a representative of a certain respective institution, that is; a room numbered 207, at surface location reference grid B1 of a certain institution; a hog farm; Mexico City; a Cruise ship, at surface location grid V6 and a water board's broken pipe at location junction 23. Each column is a representative of the location or origin or grid of the suspect microbe; the microbe or other such substances activity; the microbe or other such substances name; the microbe or other such substances severity; the recommended action or feedback and the time and date the microbe or other such substances occurred. There may be provided one or more extra columns for; recent microbial history, full microbial history, resolved microbial risks, future microbial trajectory trends that may comprise graphs, pie charts, simulatory maps, goals and phases or successful stages of on-going research heuristics, localised microbial community watch, interactive spatial disease maps and applications for dynamic infection prevention measures.

Location, Grid ref.,or Origin or affected area

Microbe/s ubstance

Activity status

Microbe substance Name

Microbe substance Severity

Recommended feedback action

Time of occurrence

Date of occurrence

Ward No. 207

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E.coli & C. difficile high quarantine

I4:26pm

24-Sep 05

Hog farm emerging/ initialing

REBOV

high purge all

03:47am

17-Jan 10

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Mexico City spread it idling

MINI

unknown vaccinate

23:56pm

08-Jul 04

Cruise ship @ 511' Level, between grid V:3 to grid V:9

spreading

Norovirus high evacuate

06:32am

02-May 03

Water Pipe @ Junction 23

sporadic

Coliform

Cryptospori dium,

high

Check breakage /repair of any adjacent foul water pipe causing contamination

04:57am

12-Aug 07

Another advantage of incorporating a microbial screening device within a cleaning device is that the floor surface diagnostic report and floor surface diagnostic databases from different companies and establishments from different backgrounds can help to pinpoint the origination of dangerous microbial elements by correlating and corroborating such invaluable information with relevant regulators and scientific agencies, biovirologists etc., for adequate response.

It may therefore be possible for firms or individuals to receive and send information via ways such as thru internet protocol addresses whereby users of the cleaning device can receive information and new cleaning technique downloadable software program from the manufacturer or a cleaning agent manufacturer via a world wide web internet website hosting platform where licensed users of register^ cleaning device can log in and log out using security codes or passwords.

Similarly, licensed users of registered cleaning devices can pay a one-off, seasonal or annual remittances or fees to the central-hub or subsidiary of the central-hub, to have the hygienic level of the floors or other cleaning surfaces in their firms and institutions monitored remotely; wherein the companies or homeowners shall have to set-up or log-into the central-hub internet website to make 'customers personal accounts' registered against the cleaning device(s) that wirelessly or telemetrically sends digital floor sample and receives feedback from the central hub once the account is activated or in credit for a specified package time limit to monitor and analyse microbial or other microscopic substances present or absent in a certain firm, institution, household or vicinity. Thus, industrial firms, institutions and domestic household owners may have the opportunity to know the gnotobiotic level of the state of their floor and other surfaces by being shown amounts of foreign harmful or harmless

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microscopic substances in the air (and any other medium) of their premises, such as living and non-living microscopic substances like dust fumes, fungus, pollen, odours, humidity, virus, fibres, smoke and soot, carcasses, exoskeleton shedding, eggs or droppings of certain animal or insects, e.g., flies such as gnats, sand-flies, tsetse flies, cockroaches, mosquitoes, ticks, lice, mites, mite faeces and dermatophytic dregs and etcetera, that are found on the floor and other surfaces such as upholstery and bed surfaces and in the ambient air to be monitored and analysed remotely for the presence or absence of pathogenic elements available or absent during, or as they (user) performs their cleaning chores using the cleaning device herein; and also during different times of the day, night, seasons. For example, the amount of pollen count inside premises during the months of spring (May and June in the UK) causes hay fever to millions of people, and with discomforts ranging from persistent itchiness of the Eustachian outlets or eyes, ears, nose, mouth hard palate and throat by high pollen particulate concentration in the air, coming from budding grass and trees.

On the other hand, amounts of fungal and mould microbe count during the wet, dark and damp autumn seasons (late September and October in the UK) causes bacterial viral and microbial cross-infections such as flu to thrive. Thus, the cleaning device can provide interactive suggestions and appropriate steps such as such as shutting windows during spring days when there is high pollen count, and dehumidifyin^., ionising room air during the damp seasons, and such information can be easily, inputted and set into the cleaning device herein. The cleaning device may also be configured to be inputted with the user's health related information with regard to the users clinical history regarding such and other allergies, and the settings saved, so as for the cleaning device to only actuate an audio visual indicium alarm when the preferred and set microscopic substance and genre count in the medium is trespassed or drops too low. Similarly, microbe count of bacteria, virus and funguses can be monitored by the cleaning device (and cleaning device's other aspects herein) during the months of autumn in domestic and industrial settings such as places with many people (or animals or plants) e.g., swimming pools, gyms, hospitals and working environments such as call centres and conventional offices.

Clients that own the cleaning device herein may then be able to setup secure 'email' accounts enabled with identification of their particular cleaning device(s), so that current and sample data history can be processed, recorded and archived, and that where need arises, important sample data and feedback information can be relayed on the 'email' account for the particular cleaning device and premises identification. Preferably, sucli an account would be set up on any internet web based hosting site or other type of computerised network, so that the clients of the cleaning device can register their cleaning device, and sample data information can then be sent to the central-hub for analysis and subsequent feedback relayed back on behalf of the registered cleaning device on that particular internet or other network protocol address. It may be thus possible for microbial or microscopic substance monitoring centre (or central-hub), to levy one-off, seasonal/quarterly or annual subscription charges or remittances for the provision of a microbial monitoring network service facility which remotely analyses and

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provides frequently updated interactive feedback to clients about the state microbial and or microscopic substances types, populations, presence or not presence in ambient air, floor and other surfaces of their domestic, commercial and industrial premises and environments. The microbial and other microscopic substance monitoring subscription services may be subscribed for by clients via quarterly/seasonal or annual renewable contracts, or by pay-as-you-use methods.

Another advantage of incorporating a microbial screening device within a cleaning device is that most bacterial viral and fungal elements that are dangerous and common to man can be found on flat surfaces where they are communicable through contact by man, animals such as pets, walking, flying, driving from place ttrplace and location to location and by air current and gravitational pull. Also, it may be possible for the cleaning device to discover the presence of secondary disease transmitting vectors such as; ticks, mice, mites, fleas, cockroaches, flies such as gnats, sand-flies, tsetse flies, mosquitoes, bedbugs etc., through the presence of their carcasses, exoskeleton shedding, eggs and droppings, by sniffing or swabs or the emissions from their waste products and carcasses so that the origin, emergence and evolutionary genetics of threatening organisms can be quickly automatically established. For example, on Saturday 26th February 2011, the Daily Mail national newspaper reported on page 55 the presence of bedbugs in British Airways aeroplanes, which left two aircraft grounded. Thusly, since the lowest flat surfaces such as the floor or ground levels are the most ideal location to find idling or 'sitting' microbes, thus, this is where to begin searching or trailing microbial substances and their activities anywhere around the world. Finally, the microbial screening device is of significant importance in operating independently or interpedently within the cleaning device as described in the disclosure of this patent for enhancing and improving the hygienic standard and safety of floor surfaces, thereby raising the standard of living for all people.

Thus, further microbial screening capabilities and a prospect of a broad communicable telemetric or wireless structure that links communicatory devices between the microbial monitoring capabilities bestowed into plurality of the cleaning device scattered around the world wirelessly connected to a central or global microbial monitoring and analysing central base biostation or central-hub for the purpose of monitoring and exchanging information regarding diverse microbial elements and other known and unknown substances that are acknowledged to cause harm intentionally or unintentionally to human beings around the world. The cleaning device which shall provide sample data collected from various cleaning surfaces by various cleaning devices as disclosed herein, then further processing the sample data independently within every individual cleaning device or remotely at the central-hub collectively using complex methods such as sequence-based approach performed on 'previously collected archived stacks of sample data' within computerised system which allows identification of discrepancies of specific microbe sample, then such information may be shown on a spatial analytical tool (such as on computerised systems connected to the internet or radio wave system) showing other relevant elaborative details such as the

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taxonomical details of the microbe, whoj)r what is susceptible to a looming microbial infection, microbial regional proximities and area or country of origin of the suspect microbe sample may be uncovered or revealed. Further advantages are to provide a surface or object cleaning device which works in conjunction or side by side with microscopic substance identifying device;

• which shall help bioresearchers and biotechnicians reduce the stretches of time consumed in lengthy bioscientific studies and manual sample collection and processing of vast microbial annals, thus enabling the production of rapid vital breakthroughs for biopharmaceutical remedies, such as in immunology,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying device which provides the initiation or setup of programmes for the development of new or updated remedial medicines and sanitary cleaning agents based on the latest research derived from the frequently processed,conglomeration of information from numerous floor surface diagnostic reports obtained from various cleaning devices scattered around a location, county, country or the world, where the cleaning devices work in different fields and backgrounds of industrial commercial and domestic environments,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool which provides the initiation or setup of programmes for the development of new or updated innovations being realised from the information derived from the floor surface diagnostic reports collected by numerous cleaning devices thus stimulating and facilitating the platform for rapid discovery and development of environmentally friendly technology-based cleaning products, medicines, services and enterprises making use of ideas from fields such as biotechnology, thereby helping in the preservation, sustainability and regeneration of the biodiversity of flora and fauna,

4 a surface/object cleaning device which^works with microscopic object identifying tool will help to preserve food security as all food is derived from plants and animals which all are supported by the surface,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool will help to provide a sustainable implement that converges sample data ranging from explanations of molecular methods to genome analysis through tests for human health and environmental effects,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool will help to provide a sustainable implement that converges data that brings together better integration of human health and veterinary medicinal sectors from all backgrounds since research shows that 70% of highly virulent emerging diseases such as H1N1 (swine flu), H5Nl(bird flu), SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome),the emerging REBOV or Ebola-Reston virus in pigs and monkeys are of zoonotic origin, and of animals that do

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not undergo months of lengthy immigration quarantining as is normally the case with canines before being allowed entry a new country, as the carcasses of these livestock freely crosses international borders, different climatic zones via livestock agricultural trade routes as food import/export as they make up as vital human food chain, thus inevitably, these live animals coming into close physical contact with humans transmits hazardous microbes to humans. ^

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool will help to provide a sustainable implement that monitors and converges data bringing together a better understanding of the biosphere's cycle, for a more enhanced stricter establishment of environmental conservational programmes and international biosphere reserves via integration of human health and medicinal sectors, veterinary health and medicinal sectors and the agricultural and organic and synthetic agrichemical sector, as research shows that 75% of known diseases and emerging diseases are transmitted between man and animals, leading to illnesses like H1N1 (swine flu), H5Nl(avian flu), Ebola, SARS, HIV and Aids, anthrax, listeriosis, salmonellosis, monkey pox, brucellosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Congo haemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever etc., may be as a direct result of the rapid encroachment of man invading (grazing livestock in forests), poaching animal parts of endangered species by traditional healers and herbalists, and rampant hunting for high bush-meat demands, for instance, in southern Congo approximately 300 rainforest gorillas are killed annually. Cutting down rain forests (slash and burn) may also be a primary source of some of the most virulent diseases to man and food plants via exposure to such highly hazardous viruses fungus and bacteria, and man's consequent cultivation of human staple food plants such as wheat, maize, beans, potatoes, into prior rain forest habitat, thus exposures spreading highly pathogenic (food) plants fungus and bacteria affecting domestic animals previously dormant or active only endemically within boundaries and climates of such rain forests habitats only, being transmitted elsewhere via international agricultural produce routes,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool which will help food security by reducing or averting staple food shortages by early warning trailing knowledge of plant viroid pathogens and others such as bunchy top disease in bananas and bacterial wilt iij, wheat, parasitic maize striga etc., via set up of networks that implements a ramification (discussed below) of the template described herein of the cleaning device, and means of acquiring and disseminating such information. Similarly, plant growers that are likely to benefit from the above template disclosed in this patent may include among others, the floriculture plant growing industry, providing knowledge and seasonal trends of such diseases to be understood, thereby providing feedback-loop such as the best way to combat plant or animal diseases cost effectively and naturally, e.g., via natural means such as using certain insects to feed on larvae of a destructive parasite affecting a certain food crop, horticultural plantation or floricultural plantation,

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• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool which will help notifying or alerting a certain vicinity or location of an impending microbial outbreak about to affect plants or animals before it happens,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool which will help save global finances as statistics report that in the past six decades, species-jumping diseases have caused more than 65% of infectious disease outbreaks worldwide, and cost more than $200 billion in economic losses over the last 10 years alone,

• a surface/object cleaning device which'works with microscopic object identifying tool which will help save wealthy countries such as the USA and the UK which respectively spend more than $1.87bn annually to treat diseases traceable to just six multidrug-resistant microbes,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool which will be easily integrated or configured to work side by side with the latest miniaturised scientific olfactory microbial screening devices that use complex and accurate algorithmic microbial sample data identification and measuring processes such as piezochemistry and piezoelectric multi-molecular microscopic analysis to analyse within a few seconds or minutes the chemical compounds and molecular composition of microbial and non-microbial microscopic substances such as powders of unknown origin and or malicious purposes, and then the cleaning device configured to distribute such digitized data sample to other remote computerised systems telemetrically,

• a surface/object cleaning device which,works with microscopic object identifying tool which will employ microbial scanning elements that unlock or provide further insights to bioresearchers; for example, as to how different people sharing a common habitat possess susceptibility or imperviousness to certain virulent microbe revealing how genes control a person's response and reactions to the virulent microbes, and similarly, as to how individual genes in humans control how a person or peoples responds and reacts to naturally occurring remedies and manufactured drugs and vaccines,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying toll which will employ microbial scanning elements that may be preconfigured to search and record microbial chemical vulnerabilities in the nascent, intermediate and fait accompli stages of a bacterium's molecular makeup (and similarly, to trends and patterns of parasitic heteroecism) and or on bacterial DNA gene-protein networks which may also include gene-gene and gene-environment interactions, decoding microbial genome makeup using complex methods as gene-sequencing, microsatellite genotyping etc., to produce maps of specific microbial molecular genetic codes, genomic taxonomy, segregants, cladistics, decoding junk-DNA therein, which may further aid bioengineers in finding specific medicines to target key genetic changes of certain drug-resistant microbe (such as staphylococcal MRSA and or MSSA) or track progressing patterns of mutating microbe with target antibiotics, vaccinations, cleaning agents and protective lotions, soaps, wipes and mass habits. Similarly, an emerging virulent microbe can be detected, monitored and trailed (or otherwise backtracked) from the earliest embryonic

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pathogenetic slage(s) recorded by samplfcs collected by the cleaning device herein, so that combative or evasive techniques can be rapidly developed before an outbreak occurs. For example, records from the cleaning device herein may help construct simulatory predictive microbial pharmacogenomics via, say, gene analysis to determine the carcinogenetic interactions with human cells, and the uncertain risk analysis of whether the microbe will further develop into virulent disease(s) or not. For example, an emerging pathogen, New Delhi-Metallo-1, or NDM-1 has an enzyme capable of living within genotype of any kind of bacterial populations by producing a chemical blanket which protects itself from antibiotics and other antibacterial agents, making the NDM-1 highly resistant to almost all antibiotics, a highly alarming prospect. Therefore, the cleaning device disclosed in this patent may help bioresearchers identify a microbiurn's molecular genetic variation(s) and how an infected peoples response to certain medicine in relation to, for example, the comparisons of how those people who have statins in their bloodstream improves their immunity by preventing viral, fungal or bacterial infection from spreading between themselves (or are impsrmeable to chronic and terminal illnesses) may be influenced by their jjiets and supplements which may include, for example, naturally occurring lectins from bananas, naturally occurring statins from Oyster mushrooms and Red Yeast rice, natural occurring resveratrol found in the skin of red grapes and knotweed, anthocyanin from black rice, raisins, salicin from willow tree bark, betulin from birch tree bark, sunshine, mineral properties in the water and etcetera would become comprehensively investigated to find blanket cures for a certain populous, regions and or globally,

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool which will provide layout studies of spatial immunity tolerance information in a regions or countries based on accumulated results from the microbial screening device and aspect of the cleaning device herein, revealing health related differences between peoples that are wealthy and peoples that are less wealthy in different regions and or countries so as to provide spatial comparative layouts showing relationship between gnotobiotic standards as led by different living classes of people in different socioeconomic backgrounds and their immune system's rigidity or robustness to such (privileged or unprivileged) environments therein is interrelated, sd" that patterns such as whether overexposure to microbial elements in less wealthy peoples in certain regions or countries can be directly related or linked to their robust immune systems as is occasionally exposed to 'general germs'. Similarly, whether increase or emergence of drug resistant virulent microbes in wealthier regions or countries is directly related or linked to their sterile living standards that have high disinfection practises, human and household disinfection products and practises and dependency to medicines and antibiotics that may in turn cause the wealthy peoples immune systems less active or dormant. This feature may raise the reasoning of whether emerging superbugs that may already have existed but are only becoming apparent because of the less active or docile immune systems (of wealthier people) subdued by free synthetic antigenic support readily available from the advent of mass overmedication, over sanitation and over disinfection practises, subsequently lowering the sentinel threshold of their body immunity levels, as opposed to hardier immune systems of people constantly exposed to 'general germs' and coming from less wealthy backgrounds, regions and or countries. With this in mind, the cleaning device as disclosed herein shall have programs preconfigure^l in its operating system, or the programs may be installed manually or downloadable wirelessly from the central-hub and over the internet,

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with information such as the latest newly updated recommendation for microbial cleaning agent and or cleaning method settings to use in various domestic and or industrial environs and specific regions. Moreover, advanced specialised feedback information from the central-hub to a specific household may contain instructions such as; whereabouts a certain genre of a microbe (per micron) count may be regarded as 'good germs' within certain medium in an area and thus become filtered-off or tolerated as it is needed to stay therein while other harmful or unnecessary 'general germs' are eliminated, say, in a household, so that growing children may become exposed to certain doses of amounts of viral bacterial fungal, animal allergens and or endotoxins thereof, that are 'good germs' that help in building the children's immune systems as well as to bolster and keep sentry immune systems of children and adults from wealthy over-sanitized socioeconomic backgrounds. The aspect above shall help to reduce the current predicament facing most wealthy countries such as the USA and the UK which respectively spend more than $1.87bn annually to treat diseases traceable to just six multidrug-resistant microbes, and such dependencies heavily blamed to overuse and over prescription of antibiotics. Thus, the cleaning device described herein and its various aspects shall help to reduce or break the vicious cycle caused because the more antibiotics are prescribed, the more the microbes become resistant, by helping peoples immune systems become rejuvenated thru planned selective exposure to 'good germs by preconfigured settings on the cleaning device and where such settings can be medically 'prescribed' or simply a user's microbial exposure preference. The equivalent spatial immunity tolerance template above may be implemented to monitor such and other similar factors in agricultural and animal health environments between different economic backgrounds e.g., betwixt developed and underdeveloped nations.

• a surface/object cleaning device which works with microscopic object identifying tool which will provide data revealing the physical circulation of microbial (and non-microbial microscopic substances) samples digitized on a live interactive layout and framework establishment that is integrated into large collaborative network which amalgamates molecular and spatial diagnostic and (microscopic substance) analytical tools that map out virulent microbial variants and similar such substances across the world.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which will provide date revealing the physical circulation of microbial samples from the populous dwellings and the collected samples digitized on a live interactive layout and framework establishment which is then integrated into large collaborative networks which may further amalgamate molecular and spatial diagnostic and analytical tools that map out virulent microbial variants across a region, a country or the world, for example, where occupation by certain ethnological populous different to overall demography affected by the same virulence is favoured, so that the relationship between the concentration of a certain microbe that may be endemic and symptomatic to a certain region and or people from a certain ethnography is studied against how the same microbe is asymptomatic to a different ethnographic peoples in the same region affected by the same virulence. For instance, in a certain sociodemographical gene-pool, it may be possible to study disease evolution via sequenced discrepancies or differences between microbial vulnerabilities against the people's immune system or the people's susceptibility against specific microbe strains, thru correlating information such as the

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presence and or absence of a certain microbe as provided by data collected from numerous cleaning devices in various domestic and industrial or other premises across a region or country, and then by using the information provided by the cleaning device to lay out spatial microbial distributional and circulation patterns against a demographic regional map, such as microbial clusters and concentrations, genotype changes of a particular or plurality of microbes affecting certain demography may then be rapidly identified and monitored. Further insights such as the peoples susceptibility to infection or otherwise, hardiness towards a certain virulence or microbe can be comprehensively evaluated/studied and understood through the occurrence of, say; comparisons of immune systems between geophagous and non^geophagous people; hybrid vigour or heterosis analysis of a ethnographic groups within a demography, so that spatial demographic epidemiological layouts establishing infection risk factors in relation to, or between people with robust immune systems in, say, heterozygous (polymorphic) peoples, and in comparison to relatively less robust immune systems of homozygous (monomorphic) peoples sharing a region affected by the same virulence can be identified. Such and other outcomes of health sustenance between different ethnographic groups within a demography can be analysed and the patterns such as regressive and progressive tendencies and timings of a particular strain(s) within these different groups of people can become more deeply elucidated, and key specific genetic information garnered and harnessed for the purpose of the overall future combats against the elusive intricate constantly-changing microbial bionetwork realm,

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device will help solve microbial puzzles via providing continuous contiguous stream of microbial activity and circulation across a vast region via numerous microbial screening devices working -within numerous cleaning devices as disclosed herein, that shall aid in performance of complex microbial probing processes and empirical examinations foreshowing layouts of future (and/against past) more potent microbial hybridization patterns and trends trajectories, such as via; comparative genome mapping against an original sample(s), decoding microbial gene-and-protein network analysis and or epigenomics of microbial intermediate chemical conditions, microsatellite allele frequencies, the discovery of presently unknown naturally occurring trends such as antibiosis activities, bacteriophagous activities, and tracking emerging (and spatial mapping of future) microbial genetic string re-assortment (homozygous) trends and patterns within an existing virulent elements that are dormant or active,

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device will help finding ways to new antibiotics derived from naturally occurring statins, and naturally occurring lectins,

• To provide a surface cleaning device^working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which will help solve microbial puzzles via providing continuous contiguous stream of microbial activity and circulation across a vast region (of the earth) and via numerous microbial screening devices working within multitudes or numerous surface cleaning devices as disclosed herein, that shall aid in performance of complex microbial probing and investigatory processes and providing simulatory layouts such as; comparative genome mapping against an original sample, decoding bacterium gene-and-protein network analysis, bacterium intermediate chemical conditions,

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microsatellite allele frequencies, pharmacogenetics and epigenetics thereby foreshowing future (and past) microbial hybridization patterns,

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which will help solve complex microbial component puzzles such as the origin, emergence and evolutionary genetics of virulent microbes brought about by advent of cheaper faster mass transit; so that different vector droppings, their eggs, exoskeleton shedding and carcasses such as those of flies, gnats, sand-flies, tsetse flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, mosquitoes, ticks, lice, mites, and dermatophyte dregs and also rats and mice that are found on the floor surfaces, upholstery seats, beds, lavatory seats and restroom surfaces of, say, immigration gateways and relative transport vessels such as, ships, trains, aeroplanes, buses, cars, highway and motorway floor petrol stations and toilets and public baby changing tables, carwash bays and their adjacent car vacuuming devices can help to establish pathogenetic and epidemiologic loopholes and missing-link gaps and or connections between a certain suspect microbe causing a certain disease(s), and also displaying specific vector and associated reservoir host that may be most likely connected or interconnected (e.g. via heteroecism) from, or during stopovers of human, animal or plant mass transit operations via international borders and climates, thereby establishing previously unfounded linkages; for example, 'as to what carcass or droppings of a certain animal or insect of a certain species different from the local native species, is responsible for introducing a certain alien (or invading foreign colony of a certain plant or animal species) disease affecting a certain flora or fauna in a local native habitat in a certain region or country from a different geographical climatic region to the invading alien', may be rapidly retraceable and established. It may therefore be possible to trail and log precipitated microbes-in-transit vessels of human, animal and products by setting up a concerted database of international border-microbial-consortium networks to trace 'certain batch' of produce across agricultural routes of; livestock, horticultural, floriculture, food, people, products from a certain region and relative microbes in that region introduced to a new region away from the original or native region and vice-versa, thereby allowing early response implementation before exchanges of spread, proliferation, sporulation ancfrnfection of the microbe begins to occur. It may similarly be possible to trace origin of parasitic microbes through their DNA codes regardless whether they are found in droppings of a host. It may thus be possible to check for the possibility and outcome of hybridization and microbial genomic re-assortments betwixt similar or same foreign microbes mating with similar or same native microbes, hence producing more potent microbes or hardier heterozygous microbes would be highlighted, thereby helping remap past microbial challenges (or sample data against stacks of current data) and to foresee disease epidemiological prognostics, trajectories and projections of future patterns of microbial activity around the world or at a particular region. One major advantage of the aspect above is that continued sporadic unpredictable climatic environments that may be contributing to developments of microbial uncertainties, certain patterns, aspects and trends of certain known, re-emergent and emerging microbial activities and circulation may be predictable to map out beforehand by using the plan template provided by the disclosure of the invention herein, thereby saving bioscientific researchers vast period of time and resources needed to cover such and associated lengthy studies conventionally, and also to farmers communities and economy of a nation(s), by allowing ample time for critical decision making regarding an early microbe discovery and contingency planning for a lurking pathogen before spread

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• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which will help set up global supercomputer mainframe networks for computerised animation or simulatory models, trend-lines and histograms, interactive microbe-satellite maps, detailed microbe-satellite genotype maps, satellite linked microbial disaster recovery plans, for example, when a regulatory body is in need of selecting a most convenient infrastructure to use in a certain region for a certain populous during a pathogenic microbial outbreak or malicious biological attack, by providing selection or safest choice of road to use, rail, sea, air access, enclosable stadiums, residential and commercial swimming pools, gyms, tunnels, valleys, dams, rivers, wind direction and other options of the same in order to alleviate the suffering of those affected by the microbial outbreak or attack. Microbial genotype analysis may become important for measuring and predicting microbial genetic variation to human disease vulnerability, progression, and outcomes. These data may provide a valuable resource for future epidemiologic studies in human (animal and plant) health in diverse regions, countries and globally,

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which can assist in probing microbes from a certain genera to be traced back to origination within a short time, for example, a microbe from a remote region such as an island or a remote cave enclosure, finding access to a new region thru hiker tourist and advent of cheap mass air travel, sending the microbe to a new different region of the world that has conducive habitat for the new or foreign microbe that then further transmutates (e.g., via re-assortment with native microbe) into a harsher and more difficult to destroy hybrid that compete with native microbes of the new region thereby making the new foreign microbe to become harsher than its predecessors, can be traced to its original source back to the cave,

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which frees invaluable time thru earliest automatic recognition of a virulent microbial presence (or absence), thereby removing unnecessary and presumptuous traditional lengthy time consuming investigative methods such as via manual multinational strain collections, manual tracking of social networks within high-risk populations, rumours and internet rumours, thereby eliminating wasted time, false alarms and excessive accompaniments of investigators and law enforcement personnel when dealing with a single and perhaps often non-existent case,

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which provides a tool or implement that has integration of comprehensive molecular analytical methods working in conjunction with a robust surveillance strategy and framework that shall help to rapidly identify specific microbial strains, clones and sparsely spread clusters across a premises or firm,

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• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which will help to provide a sustainable implement that converges data that brings together better integration of human health and veterinary medicinal sectors by establishing the study of the relationship between the robust immune systems in heterozygous or polymorphic animals and or plants as compared to weaker immune systems of homozygous or monomorphic animals and or plants using molecular diagnostic tools such as serological diagnostic identification within symptomatic and asymptomatic candidates sharing the same premises, region or country affected by the same virulence.

• To provide a surface cleaning device working with living or non-living microscopic substance identifying device which provides a tool or implement that has integration of comprehensive molecular analytical methods working in conjunction with a robust surveillance strategy and framework that shall help to rapidly identify specific microbial strains, clones and sparse clusters across a region, potentially providing further insight into disease evolution, transmission and virulence, thus aiding bioresearchers and geneticists in identifying root causes or pathogeny of the disease, hence assisting in the 'fine tuning' of new anti-microbial drug designs, vaccines, cleaning agents and various enhanced methods of proactive prevention. Also, the cleaning device and strategic surveillance methods as described herein may help bioresearchers as to how humans adapt to changing environments and microbial susceptibilities,

The growing demand for food globally due to the massive increase in population, cheap mass transport (congestion in cities due to rural to urban migration) and higher living standards in emerging economies, there is now an imperative across most countries to produce more grain through large scale farming schemes, and safeguard it against adverse environmental elements such as fluctuating weather, floods, landslides and pandemic disease. In developing nations, micro-capital investments are being extended to small scale farmers who when using modern technological farming tools such as tractors can have the potential capability of producing significant proportions of grain to a region's populace.

Thus, there is a need for better surveillance tools for the need to protect crops in the field as well as harvested grain in storage facilities from deterioration and destruction caused; crop infections, parasites and damp. In some developing countries, foreign wealthy states have started to lease large tracts of vacant land in third world countries. Therefore there is a growing need to safeguard future food and health prospects and the patent disclosure herein may provide solution to some of the problems faced thus;

• By providing an easily adaptable cost effective microscopic substance (in flora, fauna, surface, liquid and air) monitoring template which provides the potential value to save global finances as statistics report that in the past six decades, species-jumping diseases have caused more than 65% of infectious disease outbreaks worldwide, and cost more than $200 billion in economic losses over the last 10 years alone; help safeguard food security by reducing or averting staple food shortages by early warning trailing knowledge of plant viroid pathogens e.g, an early alert and projection of bunchy top

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disease in bananas in Uganda or similarly bacterial wilt in wheat, parasitic maize striga in Kenya via set up of networks that implements a ramification (discussed below) of the template described herein, and means (now readily available cost effective mobile phone SMS messaging to the subsistence fanner) of acquiring and disseminating such information to small scale farmers. Similarly, plant growers that are likely to benefit from the above template disclosed in this patent may include among others, large scale horticulture floriculture plant growing industry by providing knowledge and seasonal trends of such diseases to be understood, thereby providing feedback-loop such as the best way to combat plant or animal diseases cost effectively and naturally or without chemicals, e.g., via natural means such as using certain insects to feed on larvae of a destructive parasite affecting a certain food crop, bacteriophagy, culling, etc.

• By providing an object or surface cleaning device that shall provide layout studies of spatial immunity tolerance informatioivin a regions or countries based on accumulated results from the microbial screening device and aspect of the cleaning device herein, revealing health related differences between peoples that are wealthy and peoples that are less wealthy in different regions and or countries so as to provide spatial comparative layouts showing relationship between hygienic standards led by different living classes of people in different socioeconomic settings and their immune system's rigidity or robustness to such environments therein is interrelated, so that patterns such as whether overexposure to microbial elements in less wealthy peoples in certain regions or countries can be directly related or linked to their robust immune systems as is occasionally exposed to 'general germs'. Similarly, whether increase or emergence of drug resistant virulent microbes in wealthier regions or countries is directly related or linked to their sterile living standards that have high disinfection practises, human and household disinfection products and practises and dependency to medicines and antibiotics that may in turn cause the wealthy peoples immune systems less active or dormant. This feature may raise the reasoning of whether emergent superb'.igs may have already existed but are only becoming apparent because of the less active immune systems (of wealthier people) subdued by advent of freely available overmedication, over-sanitation and over disinfection practises, subsequently leaving their immune systems much less sentinel than the immune systems of people from less wealthier environments, regions and or countries constantly exposed to 'general germs'. The equivalent spatial immunity tolerance above may be implemented to monitor animal health and in agricultural environments between developed and non-developed regions and or countries.

• By providing a portable surface cleaning device which shall help protect biodiversity by preventing the destruction of forests habitat which results in droughts, floods, soil erosion and hazardous microbial substances that emanate from the tampered biodiversity infecting man, flora and fauna; a surface cleaning device which shall endeavour to set up computerised mainframe network template that shall aid bioresearchers in microbial etiological and epidemiological studies to rapidly discover and understand transmission pathways, monitor and trail disease causing microbes found by the cleaning device in diverse regions across the world early,Enough before an outbreak takes place; a surface cleaning device which shall help in the early discovery, development and production of more potent antibiotics, vaccines and cleaning agents for destroying known and unknown

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• By providing a portable surface cleaning device that provides people with a cleaning device which satisfies a long existing need.

Consolidating the technological and mechanical aspect and features of the disclosure in this patent to current designs of domestic vacuum cleaners shall allow ordinary domestic cleaner appliances to be able to accomplish both tasks of cleaning the surface or object and also inclusively monitoring the floor or other object's microbial hygienic level in a specific scientific tangible manner, rather than by conventional eye-contact or general abstract promises as advertised on the covers of most cleaning products and surface cleaning apparatuses of what is supposedly done. Thus, the amalgamated features of the device disclosed in this patent shall improve the hygiene of cleaned surfaces visually as well as scientifically. Therefore, the cleaning device disclosed herein envisages providing an essential marketing advantage within potential competition by overcoming major obstacles encountered by users of prior art surface cleaning apparatus.

The cleaning device disclosed in this patenfmay help in aiding bioresearchers to study more closely the differences of a same microbe found on floor surfaces in one region and is an equivalent strain of a microbe in another continent would enable biopharmaceuticals produce more specific potent medicine and cleaning agents, or even aid bio-researchers to study differences of how immune systems of children in dwellings such as Kibera and or Mathare slums in Kenya/ Ekhayelitsa slums in Cape Town are protected from E.coli in comparison with children affected by the same strain in the UK, thereby helping bioengineers foretell trends and stay a step ahead in making more potent hybrid remedies such as vaccinations. Also, it is foreordained that this cleaning device disclosed in this patent herewith will help in creating, providing and generating new jobs, and initiate a new line of manufacturing industry and supplier chains which are collectively an essential commodity during the current socio-economic and sociological hardship. The cleaning device disclosed in this patent also hopes to help establish dialogue and global cohesion from corroborations of intertwined epidemiological exchange programs between groups of diverse socio-cultures from many nations far and wide.

Thus, advantages of directly or indirectly employing the use any cleaning device is evident particularly with scientifically based hygienic surface assurances by way of having the microbial screening device with the means to instantaneously screen, alert and store and or disseminate digital sample data about the identity of microbial and non-microbial elements found thereupon cleaning surface by the cleaning device is a long awaited and needed essentiality in all surface cleaning market which has now been met by the patent disclosure herein, and hence an vital advantage over many types of prior art cleaning apparatuses.

Yet a further aspect object and advantage of the present invention disclosed herein is to produce a miniaturized portable self-sufficient gnotobiotic surface-borne and air-borne

microbe monitoring or lone operating microbial screening device that may be fixed onto presently existing wet and dry surface cleaning apparatus such as vacuuming and surface washing devices that are operated by personnel, or that operate autonomously in the domestic and industrial markets. Thus, such a lone operating microbial screening device must be simple to use, lightweight, easy to install, small in size-approximately that of a mobile phone or paging device, and that comes complete as a self-sufficient system in a device that comprises; a data storage or memory microchip; a central processing unit for processing the data; telemetric enablement devices such as radio transmitting antennas and peripheral data transmitting ports; RFID transceivers and transponders; surface-borne microbe with specimen or sample swabbing elements and or sample collecting capabilities, self-cleaning capabilities, a rechargeable lithium battery and, or optional interface port for connection to the cleaning device's electrical system for electrical power and data and commands transfers. The lone operating microbial screening device may then be fixed or attached as a retrofit on an adequate position within the body of any prior art cleaning apparatus or stuck by suitable means onto the surface of any prior art cleaning apparatus. The lone operating microbial screening device may be positioned anywhere within the body of the cleaning device or may be positioned proximate to the surface being cleaned, or with the sample collecting components placed in the path of the contaminants collected from a surface being cleaned. Such a path may be a liquid or gaseous waste delivery conduit and or waste storage container. The lone operating microbial screening device may be pre-programmed to take samples of contaminants at certain frequencies during'use. In some embodiments, the lone operating microbial screening device may have a self-cleaning capability so that it can be readied for a new or next microbial/microscopic sample collecting task.

The lone operating microbial screening device fixed to existing prior-art cleaning apparatuses may be actuated to take microbial samples via external sources such as RFID tags placed in strategic points of a premises e.g., at entrances and corridors of premises. The lone operating microbial screening device fixed to an existing prior-art cleaning apparatus working in various firms of different backgrounds may therefore begin collecting samples of surface-borne microbes and microbes borne in ambient air. Thus, the lone operating microbial screening device may be operating independently or interdependently within a prior art cleaning apparatus working in a hospital, airport, seaport, animal farm, kindergarten nursery creche, football stadium, domestic home etc., taking swabs of the floor surface and also ambient air samples, then converts the organic sample into a digital sample signature and then sending or transmitting the digitized data information of the surface-borne microbe and microbes borne in ambient air to a remote computer processing system or central-hub that matches the digital sample signature with an existing database of surface-borne and air-borne microbial substances previously stored within the memory of the c central-hub. The lone operating microbial screening device may be able to process the digitals sample and comparing the digital sample within a processing memory before sending it to a central-hub. The sample identification process occurs when pattern recognition algorithms process the received digital signature sample and match it with an existing database of substances stored

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in the instrument. The sample may be identifiable also via comparative digital sample signature matching by processors within the lone operating microbial screening device which work on a template of the condition of what a hygienic floor should be, a resultant comparative differentiation is provided, and such results sent telemetrically via radio waves, microwaves, GPS data transmissions, internet protocol address, paging devices etc., so that such information may be shared with relevant authorities or such information sent to a central-hub for further analysis, histogram generation, printing, wide dissemination to relevant groups and archival purposes. The central-hub may be local and national government or a global centre where all such information is converged.

In another aspect of the above discussion and equivalent in contextual template, the lone operating microbial screening device mayj^e adaptable to be usable to monitor liquids at waste liquid holding basins, drainage pipes and waste holding sumps. For example, the lone operating microbial screening device may be used to scan for hazardous metals such as mercury at a sea fish processing plant by screening liquids of fish waste carcasses as it is disposed of along floor surfaces, dipped drains, waste drainage pipes and waste liquid tanks.

For example, a floor surface diagnostic report data collected by the lone operating microbial screening device could suggest that such a fish processing plant install a mercury separator device due to an unsafe level of mercury detected in the waste water. A mercury separator device would filter mercury out of wastewater so that it doesn't contaminate the water supply chain and eventually accumulate in fish. Therefore, once such hazardous metals as mercury and or other hazardous microbial substances are identified, a message signal may be sent to the relevant authority within the fish processing plant or far away from the company in the same way that the microbial screening device above transmits microbial information while working within the body of the cleaning device.

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In the above equivalent contextual template, the lone operating microbial screening device may be used to collect samples within the waste holding containers of waste collection vehicles and automotive street sweepers, by way of placing telemetric lone operating microbial screening device in locations such as the sump regions of waste collecting trucks and related waste pipes, also lone operating microbial screening device with olfactory air-sniffing elements may be placed in strategic points within the waste container enclosure. Further, placing lone operating microbial screening device with olfactory air-sniffing elements in air expelling vents and ducts of local waste holding and processing plants may help keep a rapid detailed record log of microbial or other suspicious materials within a batch of waste from a certain logged area, such locations being identifiable via transceiver devices that utilize radio waves can be placed strategically at the beginning and end of a specific street for reciprocal telemetric communication with waste collecting trucks when visiting that street or vicinity thereby narrowing down a case in the event of an impending hazard such as an outbreak of microbial disease or suspicious activity, such as illegal drugs manufacture or more serious, activities related to explosives raw materials can be traced back to a certain house in a certain logged street. Thus the lone operating microbial screening device derived

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from the microbial screening device working within the cleaning device of this patent disclosure may aid in setting up or designing standardised computerized methods for example, a consolidated network within waste haulage companies in a local or national framework that has a central-hub for comparative and surveillance services that monitors the dust and waste liquids expelled from domestic and industrial waste.

In the above equivalent contextual template, the lone operating microbial screening device with olfactory air-sniffing elements may be placed in strategic points within the within post office letter posting boxes, taking samples of suspicious substances or powders of unknown origin from the ambient air within the enclosures such as those of the letter posting boxes that comprise a network of thousands of such boxes. Once a suspicious substance is identified, a message signal may be sent to the relevant authority within the post office company in the same way that the microbial screening device above transmits microbial information while working within the body of the cleaning device. The sniffing device in the above aspect may be powered by solar energy via a miniaturised solar panel stuck on the surface of a posting box in order to charge a pair of rechargeable lithium batteries to power the olfactory device placed inside a posting box.

Similarly as above, a further aspect, object and advantage of this invention is to produce a miniature portable self-sufficient lone operating microbial screening device that is simple to use, that comes ready with of miniature parts like a radio antennas, processors, radio waves transceiver capabilities and sensors working as a system that can be readily fixed on cleaning surface location such as sumps and sewage/drainage pipes, water board company pipes etc., thence transmitting and relaying data telemetrically or wirelessly to and from a central-hub. Thus, the lone operating microbial screening device may be configured to be used to measure and quantify populations of various microbial and non-microbial substances suspended within a liquid. That is, the lone operating microbial screening device may be used by water board companies for liquid titration and bacteriologic assessments. That is, the lone operating microbial screening device may be configured to take sample of liquid travelling within water board pipe networks because water leaves>he water depot clean, but may get contaminated thru various factors along the way before arriving to a consumer. Thus, the device may be configured to be fixed upon water pipes at strategic positions or junctions whereby such hazardous substances such as waterborne microbes like coliform, Cryptosporidium, or measure liquid titration pH levels of chemicals such as chlorine and fluoride, dangerous metals such as lead can be identified early and authorities notified in the same way that the microbial screening device above transmits microbial information while working within the body of the cleaning device. The lone operating microbial screening device in the above aspect of water-board surveillance may be powered by dynamo whereby a mini-turbine is kinetically rotated by the force of the passing water in a water board pipe so as to charge a pair of rechargeable long-life lithium batteries to power the processors and transceiver elements of the water titration device attached to a water delivery pipe. Suspicion raising substances suspended in the water in the delivery pipe may be screened in the same way and

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relevant authorities notified at once. In the same spirit above, hazardous impurities in water in waterways such as storm drains leading to rivers, rivers and canal waterways can be monitored in the same way as above using lone operating microbial screening device powered by wind, solar or the current of the passing water to recharge long life batteries to power the screening device. For example, on the 7th October 2009, media across the UK reported that people were being warned to stay away from the River Trent in Staffordshire-which is the third largest river in the UK, after it was polluted with deadly cyanide chemical and raw sewage. The leak has killed thousands of fish and some wildlife in a 30 mile stretch of the water between Stoke-on-Trent and the village of Yoxall, and is expected to spread. A network of lone operating microbial screening devices placed and spaced strategically along the river would have alerted authorities early enough that a cyanide contamination was developing, rather than after the damage has been done, which is what has occurred. Farmers, anglers and boaters have been warned that the water of River Trent should not be taken out of the river for any reason whatsoever. Thus, the aspect of the lone operating microbial screening device derived from the central-hub network of the microbial screening device working within the cleaning device may help authorities identify various hazardous impurities suspended within air and water ahead of time thereby protecting consumers from unintentional or deliberate contamination. In 2004, a company was heavily fined for a similar offence of polluting the River Severn which is the longest river in Britain. Avonmouth-based chemical company Sevalco was fined £24(^)00 in 2004 for deliberately discharging cyanide into the River Severn. On the 20th December 2009, BBC news reported that a US jury awarded $100million dollars in damages to ten workers who said that a leak at a BP oil refinery had made them sick.

Broadly, wherever there may be activities of pathogenic microbial substances and microscopic non-microbial substances of a hazardous nature to humans, flora and fauna, it may be possible to monitor surveillance and trail the presence or absence of such microscopic organisms by utilizing the layout template of the computerized bacterial surveillance methodology and central-hub network system as disclosed in this patent disclosure. An advantage of having a lone operating microbial screening device working in a network of a water-board firm is that such a firm can save on having excess personnel and the vast amount of time it takes to perform manual liquid titration exercises. The device is miniaturised, cheap to manufacture, install and with little need for maintenance. It may therefore be possible for the above template to be usable in other>diverse sectors of various industries such as to monitor contents in post-box enclosures used by the public to send letters and parcels. For example, a post office company may want to monitor such substances as illegal drugs or explosives in transit by placing miniaturised olfactory screening devices with battery, microprocessors and transceivers or telemetric capabilities inside the network of thousands of post-boxes spread across a region. The olfactory screening devices may be configured to work in the same way as the above microbial screening device of the cleaning device operates in a network culminating in the central-hub, that is, a post-box olfactory screening devices takes samples, then analyses and or sends the samples telemetrically to the central-

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hub for further analysis and then notification to relevant authorities of any identified discrepancies for appropriate countermeasures to be undertaken. The post-box olfactory screening devices may be powered by a miniature solar panel fixed on the surface of a post-box to recharge a lithium battery or from energy scavenging attachments attached to the post-box's door so that every day the post-box door is open and shut, a current is generated by a dynamo and stored in a lithium battery for the olfactory screening device operating inside a post-box.

Thus its noteworthy to mention that the above layout framework of the template of microbial monitoring and surveillance may be employed in other aspects regarding similar non-living microscopic substances such as tracing hazardous powders of unknown origin in post office boxes, titration purposes such as in clean water-board networks, monitoring domestic gas and petroleum networks and in waste sewage pipe networks etc.

Theretofore, some of the objects of the present invention disclosed herein are to provide a surface cleaning device which shall help protect biodiversity by preventing the destruction of forests habitat which results in droughts, floods, soil erosion and hazardous microbial substances that emanate from the tampered biodiversity infecting man, flora and fauna by providing a more comprehensive layout for the understanding of the spatial geographical distribution of microbial activity at base or ground level which is critical to developing strategies to reduce their transmission; a surface cleaning device which shall endeavour to set up computerised mainframe network template that shall aid bioresearchers in microbial etiological and epidemiological studies to rapidly discover and understand transmission pathways, monitor and trail disease causing microbes as found by the cleaning device in diverse regions across the world early enpugh before an outbreak takes place, and such information used to create hypotheses based on microbe transmission pathways and route ways thereby revealing susceptible high risk occupations, (e.g. broiler and hog farmers),and locations via changing regional seasonal weather patterns, vulnerable social networks and subsequently warning regulators of populations within a particular area of an impending microbial hazard footprint before an outbreak occurs; a surface cleaning device which shall help in the early discovery, development and production of more potent antibiotics, vaccines and cleaning agents for destroying known and unknown emergent disease causing microbes around the world; a surface cleaning device that shall aid biotechnologists in uncovering and harnessing new pathways of bacteria-virus networks thereby enabling for the discovery of cost effective ecological natural ways of fighting multidrug resistant bacterium that cause many patients to harbor bacteria resistant to these antibiotics, such as MRSA and MSSA staphylococcal and clostridiums and many other persistent resistant strains such as salmonella, Campylobacter, streptococci, enterococcus and mycobacterium, through applied bacteriophagic and phagocytic methods as'a vital alternative to antibiotics in the current era of drug resistant microbes as more perils of emerging and remerging pathogens continue to raise and at such a time when the need for antibiotics is acute (and overused which reduces humans immune systems' capability to fight these drug resistant microbes, thus strengthening

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the harsher microbe persistency and virulence) as only three classes of antibiotics have been marketed since 1962, compared to twentvxlasses between 1940 and 1962, although more varieties of transmissible emerging specie-jumping diseases between humans and animals, and in the plant kingdom have been in past 50 years.

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According to the present invention, there is provided a microscopic object identifying surface cleaning device comprising; a cleaning device and a microscopic object identifying device and the cleaning device configured to clean surfaces whilst the microscopic object identifying device working in conjunction with the cleaning device identifies living and non-living microscopic substances collected from the surface by the cleaning device.

The cleaning device includes its body, and the microscopic substance identifying device is the form of an electrical device or non-electrical device. The microscopic object or substance identifying device can be an independent device which is connectable to the cleaning device, or the microscopic substance identifying device can be built into any known cleaning device.

Preferably, the microscopic substance identifying device is electrical and configured to be removable from the body of a cleaning device by a user and to be reinsert-able by a user on or into the body of the cleaning device. Preferably, there may be provided a separate modular or microscopic substance identifying device or simply electrical device in the form of a disconnectable or removable cartridge or cassette that has exterior guide grooves on housing that mate or correspond to grooves and notches on the inside of the 'slotting' aperture into which that leads the electrical device (or microscopic substance identifying device) into or for mutual connection with the interface unit within the body of the cleaning device, and to securely engage and or latch the electrical device and the interface unit together in place.

However, in certain other embodiments of the above aspect, the cartridge of the electrical device (or microscopic substance identifying device) may house a non-electrical device(or microscopic substance identifying device); wherein the cartridge of the non-electrical device may house pre-treated or sterile culture in pockets, magazine, cases, reels in storage cassettes or cases, so that microbial organic specimens or samples collected from cleaning surfaces using manual or automatic means may be kept for further analysis and or proliferated. In such and other embodiments, the cartridge of the non-electrical device may be used as a sterile culture media carrying means. The cartridge of the non-electrical device may be configured to expose a portion of sterile pre-treated strip of culture medium with collected sample material taken from a cleaning surface; wherein the sterile pre-treated strip is provided from a culture storage means that may be a radial reel or a linear stacks of stored sterile pre-treated strip material in one compartmentalized partition of the cartridge, and then the contaminated strip stored at another separate compartmentalized part of the cartridge. A user may then remove a used cartridge from the cleaning device or replace a fresh or un-used cartridge into the cleaning device. Preferably, the electrical device (or microscopic substance identifying device) is electronic.

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In certain embodiments, cleaning device may include one or more interfacing elements or interface units attached to the body of cleaning device and configured to provide an interface between an element external to the cleaning device and at least one element attached to the body. In certain embodiments of the above aspect, the interface unit may be configured to be a one-for-all interfacing unit; wherein different interfacing elements with different capacities and purposes may be used in a single or a standardised format interface unit. Some of the interface units may be positioned on the peripheral or exterior surface of the cleaning device, whilst other interface units may be positioned within body of the cleaning device. Some interface units are attached to the cleaning device body to provide an interconnecting element or port for interconnecting with one or more external devices. Other interfacing elements may wirelessly or telemetrically provide connection (via a standardised radio wave protocol format) for a one or two-way communication between one or more electrical device within the cleaning device and one or more computerized electrical element, wherein such an electrical element may be computerised e.g a home computer or a remotely located central computer or central-hub.

Preferably, the cleaning device has means to monitor and detect the quantity of microbial and or non-microbial substances present or absent upon a cleaning surface and ambient air. Preferably, the electrical device is a microbial screening device that works or operates in conjunction or incorporation with the cleaning device and possesses means to perform various tasks; wherein such various tasks may include collecting, identifying and monitoring living and non-living microscopic substances within different mediums such as liquid and gas, and then digitizing the organic sample before sending the digitised sample via cable or by wireless means to other computerised systems. Such an electrical device may be inbuilt or intertwined within other workings in the body of the cleaning device such that such an electrical device is permanently fixed and irfemovable from the cleaning device. However, in the preferred embodiment, the electrical device is disconnectable from the cleaning device via disconnectable elements. The disconnecting elements are arranged within the aperture on the body leading into the interface units, so as to provide connection or disconnection of the electrical device with the cleaning device.

The interface units may also connect the cleaning device to an electrical power source via cable. In certain embodiments, the electrical device connected to the interface unit may be configured for one or two way communication over a wireless signal. Thus, in certain embodiments of the above aspect, the electrical device connected to the interface unit may be configured for one or two way communication over a wireless signal and network and further to one or more mechanical and or non-mechanical devices to perform predefined tasks within the cleaning device; wherein such tasks may include collecting an organic sample from a cleaning surface or ambient air, digitizing the organic sample processing and sample analysis of the digitized sample, storing the sample tfnd or disseminating the digitized sample to other remote computerised systems and electrical such devices thereof. Thus, the interface unit may comprise a plurality of interface ports and wireless interface unit(s) or wireless interfacing

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elements for interfacing (the electrical device) with active external elements for exchanging operating commands, digital data and other electrical signals therewith. The interface unit may further interface wirclessly with one or more external electrical device that may include, and not limited to; an RFID device, a wireless transceiver device, a hand-held remote control, a satellite network and positioning connection, a disconnectable (snap-on, snap-off) extension handle component, personal digital assistants or PDA's, a cellular/mobile phone, a local or remote computer, a modem, a microbial screening device, a portable memory device for exchanging code and or data with the cleaning device and a network interface for interfacing the cleaning device with any device connected to the network. Thus, the electrical device above may work incorporation with one or more above devices working together in a single unit, or as a combination of the above devices in a single unit, for example, the microbial screening device may work in conjunction with an RFID transceiver device in a single unit, a mobile phone and the microbial screening device, a GPS device working together with a microbial screening device and a transceiver device all-in-one unit, etc. Thus, the electrical device may be also configurable to (directly or indiiectly) communicate with a remote computer system or server whilst being physically connected to the cleaning device. The electrical device also may be configurable to communicate (directly or indirectly) with a remote computer system or server whilst disconnected or not being physically connected to the cleaning device. The electrical device may also be configurable to communicate (directly or indirectly) with a remote computer system or server, respectively and or simultaneously whilst disconnected from the cleaning device, and also communicate (directly or indirectly) with a remote computer system or server respectively and or simultaneously when connected physically to the cleaning device.

Thusly, the electrical device may also communicate with a remote computer system or server via the cleaning device. A remote computer system or server may communicate with the electrical device via the cleaning device. Such communications may be transmitted from various and or different computerised networks to the cleaning device thru interface units and or wireless interfacing elements. The main control unit of the cleaning device may control such communications in certain embodiments of the cleaning device herein. One advantage of such an implement is that relevant urgent information to a user of the cleaning device's such as microbial or other hazardous microscopic substances present in their home (or around the vicinity or region) may be sent directly to the display screen on the exterior of the cleaning device or via an indicium such as a recognizable mark or sound alert.

Thus, some interface units may be within the body of the cleaning device. Such interface units may be configured to receive one or more separate modular electrical device; wherein the electrical device may be configured to be mounted or engaged and disengaged by sliding-in and sliding-out via guide notches or grooves on the housing of the electrical device mating with a 'slotting' aperture on the exterior of the cleaning device, and to then gain secure latching engagement for the electrical device within one or more interface unit in the body of the cleaning device; wherein the electrical device once connected to interface unit may be

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controlled by the main control unit of the cleaning device; and can be configured to send or receive information to and from the cleaning device, or the electrical device may be configured to send or receive information from a remote computer or server, or combination of both, and from different computerised networks and different telecommunication protocols. Thus, the interface unit may act as a docking-station for differently or variously tasked electrical devices that possess a robust standardised housing structure that mate with the 'slotting' aperture on the exterior of thccleaning device, which leads the electrical device to engagingly connect with the interface unit.

Preferably, the electric device has a microbial screening device. Preferably, the electrical device may include and not limited to a cleaning device, but may be included in other cleaning devices such as; foot spas to monitor/measure bacterial presence or absence, ambient air temperature and humidity measuring devices, bathtubs, toothbrushes to measure/monitor bacterial count or teeth/gum disease inception, local or remote weatherstations, signal propagating/signal sensing and processing devices, and microbial screening devices that may monitor, mould and fungus, viral and bacterial, pollen and levels thereof, and non-microbial substances like dust, fumes and pollution levels e.g., nitrous oxides, fibres, humidity, heating ventilation, carbon-monoxide and air conditioning machines, clocks, humidifiers, dehumidifiers to check for odours smoke and soot, desiccant devices or can be the combination or amalgamation of one or more of all the above (and not restricted to all the above) in one or more electrical device ^connectable to the docking interface unit. For example, an electrical device comprising the microbial screening device working in incorporation or in conjunction with RFID transceiver device in a single unit; an electrical device comprising the microbial screening device and a modem.

Thus, the electrical device may also be configured to work or carry out tasks independently; wherein the electrical device when disengaged or disconnected from the interface unit or body of the cleaning device may continue to carry out or to perform various tasks independently, such as; taking olfactory (sniffing) sample collections and communicating with the remote central-hub, and to then recommence dependent functioning once the electrical device is re-engaged or reconnected back to the interface unit of the cleaning device, which then allows the main control unit of the cleaning device to retake or regain control of the electrical device during the period or from the moment that the electrical device is reconnected back to the cleaning device.

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Therefore, the electrical device can be partially or fully controlled by the main control unit that controls the entire cleaning device. The electrical device may also be configured to draw electrical power from the power source of the cleaning device via the interface unit connections, and may possess a self-rechargeable power source such as batteries. However, the power source of the electrical device may be manually replenished e.g., thru conventional battery replacement. In yet another embodiment of the above independent aspect of electrical device, the electrical device may be configured to communicate wirelessly or by using electrical signals for communication with the cleaning device, specifically, without being

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physically connected to the interface unit of the cleaning device by using any physical or tangible means, but instead, by using wireless or telemetric interface connection means. Thus, the electrical device may be configured to directly communicate with a remote computer system or server whilst not being physically connected to the cleaning device; that is, the electrical device may be configured to work when not physically connected to the cleaning device, or when disconnected from the cleaning device, wherein such an embodiment, the electrical device may be fixedly positioned or 'planted' upon a stationary location such as; on a building ceiling or wall e.g., for olfactory poisonous fume detection; or any living or nonliving produce distribution vehicles and relative distribution premises; or in refuse collection vehicle and relative premises and bins; or in postal boxes, sorting and distribution premises; or on a surface such as industrial mineral sufface such as a floor in a goldsmith's workshop to detect salvageable minerals; or to detect hazardous leakages and other harmful microscopic substances; or to monitor a gaseous and or liquid pipeline network underneath a stairway escalator and or inside an elevator, etc. Thus, the electrical device may be a robust hand-held multipurpose adaptable implement having a standardised housing and possessing diverse tasks configured to perform numerous duties in monitoring microscopic substances within different medium (e.g. gaseous and liquid) when physically connected or inserted into the cleaning device, or when not physically connected to the cleaning device.

Therefore, the electrical device may be a lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device monitoring and detecting microscopic elements and may send digitalised microbial/substance sample data collected from a remote monitoring site to a computer system; and wherein the computer system may further process the collected information and send or relay feedback to the plurality of remotely placed individual lone microbial/microscopic substance screening'device working in numerous remote monitoring sites elsewhere.

However, the lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device can be configured to process sample data information and to store the sample data information to await manual retrieval or transfer. The manual retrieval of the sample data information may be transferred from the lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device to receiving electronic data receiving device via temporarily connecting a cable between the peripheral ports on the lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device and electronic data receiving device such as portable hand-held pads, personal digital assistants or PDA's, mobile phones, set-top boxes, etc.

Thus, the electrical device and template thereof as implemented in the microbial surface and ambient air screening aspect of the patent disclosure heiein may be used to work as part of a 'team', that is as plurality of lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device monitoring and detecting hazardous microscopic substances in a vast array of unrelated fields and backgrounds whilst telemetrically or wirelessly sending and receiving data from the analysis, repository central-hub computer system.

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Thusly, electrical device may be configured to directly communicate with remote computer or server (central-hub) and or the cleaning -device simultaneously or respectively. In such an embodiment, the electrical device may be configured to possess a power source that can be manually replenished or rechargeable, such as via battery power source. The electrical device as described above may therefore be an independent microscopic substance monitoring device of any shape or structure and can be retrofitted into existing or contemporary prior-art wet and dry cleaning electrical and manual apparatuses (such as vacuum cleaners and bucket and mop cleaning apparatuses) and configured to operate or carry out different diverse related or unrelated microscopic substance monitoring tasks as described herein this patent disclosure.

Preferably, the electrical device comprises (and is not limited to) the microbial screening device working in the cleaning device, and having means to monitor and detect the quantity of microbial substances present or absent upon a cleaning surface and ambient air; and may be achieved by having one or more microbial screening device fixed on the body of the cleaning device in order to collect sample from a cleaning surface before during, and or after a cleaning cycle by the cleaning device oyer a cleaning surface. Preferably the microbial screening device may take sample by direct contact with the cleaning surface using a swabbing element, or the microbial sample may be retrieved from along waste liquid conduits or at the (cesspit) sump in the waste tank receptacle of the cleaning device. Ambient air samples may be taken via olfactory means or sniffing means or any other convenient means. Preferably, the microbial screening device working within the cleaning device may be automatically actuated to take microbial sample from the cleaning surface and ambient air by sensor elements fixed on the cleaning device and communicating between the microbial screening device in the cleaning device and sensor elements placed in strategic places external to the body of the cleaning device.

The sample collecting actuation mechanism of the microbial screening device may be prompted to collect/send a sample via identity positioning means. However, collecting a microbial sample may be actuated using a manual means by a user pressing a sample collection actuating button on the exterior of the cleaning device. Preferably, the microbial screening device has self-cleaning or self-flushing capabilities to maintain the swabbing element of the microbial screening device'in a sterile condition for use before every new sample is collected. Preferably, the microbial screening device working in the cleaning device has means to process the collected samples against previously collected samples so that such samples are matched to sight discrepancies within the stacking of the samples and an alert or warning message is displayed on a suitable exterior surface of the cleaning device for the user to perform adequate measure. However, an audio warning or alert visual message may be received from a remote computer system or server that the cleaning device telemetrically communicates sample data with. Preferably, the microbial screening device working in the cleaning device may have means for transferring the digitalized sample data information collected from the cleaning surface by the cleaning device. Preferably, there is provided means to transfer data to and from the cleaning device to an electronic data receiving device. The means to transfer data from the cleaning device to an electronic data receiving device such as a remote computer system (and or vice versa) may be done by using wireless means such as by utilizing radio waves transceivers. The remote computer system may be one or more server or one or more central-hub. In addition, the connectivity between the microbial screening devices working within the cleaning device may be, for example via Asynchronous

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Transfer Mode (ATM), satellite communication networks and Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), for communication between the cleaning device and a computer server or main central-hub. However, transferring the digital sample information from the cleaning device to the remote computer system may be performed via removable cable extending from peripheral interface unit or port on the surface of the cleaning device and a peripheral interface unit on the computer system, e.g., via USB cable, USB mass storage devices commonly known as flash keys or flash pefis, SDHC, HDMI, MMC, XD card mass storage devices etc. Once sample data is in the computer system, it may be further interpreted, untangled, analysed/processed and stored. The data may then be disseminated to numerous other computer systems (for observation) in remote other locations via any means such as email and various other wireless ways to convey messages as above described. The system of the electronic data receiving device may include any type of electronically connected group of computers including, for instance, the following; PC or desktop computer, personal digital assistants or PDA's, server, portable, hand-held, mobile/cellular phones, set-top, or any other desired type of configuration. As used herein, a telemetric communication means includes network variations such as public internet, a secure internet, a private network, a public network, a value added network, an intranet, satellite communication networks, radio waves, microwaves etc.

Thus, the processes that are undergone by each of the microbial screening devices working within cleaning devices (or lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device) may be redistributed to one or more microbial screening device, combined together in a single module, or made available in, for example a shareable dynamic link library connected to the server or central-hub as disclosed herein. Preferably, plurality of cleaning devices having individual microbial screening device may send digitalised microbial sample data collected from a remote cleaning surface site to the computer system; and wherein the computer system may further process the collected information and send or relay feedback to the plurality of remote individual microbial screening device working in plurality of cleaning devices spread apart far and wide in certain region or around the world.

Preferably, the microbial screening device is a removable, demountable or cartridge or cassette the approximately the size of, but not necessarily the size of an ordinary mobile or cellular phone; and has insertion guide-grooves and or notches on its housing for sliding into alignment with a mating receptacle within the body of the cleaning device; wherein, an interface unit is provided in an aperture of the body of the cleaning device so as to mate with an interface unit on the cartridge or cassette housing ihe microbial screening device ; the alignment and locking of the interface uni* between the cleaning device and the microbial screening device, allows one or more workings of the microbial screening device to be carried out, after being secured by a latching mechanism for secure engagement. The latching mechanism can also function to disengage the microbial screening device from the receptacle, thereby allowing removal of the microbial screening device from the body of the cleaning device.

The microbial screening device may carry out one or more processes described above, such as sample data collections, processing and storage and or data dissemination to the central-hub or elsewhere. Electrical power to run the microbial screening device may be delivered

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via the interface unit connection from an electrical source within the cleaning device. However, the microbial screening device may carry its own independent self-contained power source. The self-contained power source may be a rechargeable battery. The rechargeable battery may be recharged by the interface unit connection so that the microbial screening device can be usable whether inserted into the cleaning device or when not inserted into a cleaning device, yet still being able to carry out the above tasks of surface sample and olfactory sample collection, processing and sample data dissemination of the data to the central-hub; thusly, being similar to a hand-held model that is yet capable of being inserted into the cleaning device to perform the equivalent tasks satisfactorily, as disclosed herein in this patent.

Thus, in a certain embodiment of the above aspect, a conventional mobile/cellular phone or smart phone may have built-in microbial screening device with above capabilities of surface sample and or olfactory sample collection, processing and sample data dissemination to the central-hub. Thus, it may be possible to collect sample data using the general public, by letting the general public take samples using their cellular phones, say, in rivers, lakes, beaches, hotels, schools, hospitals, taking carbon monoxide levels in cities around the world and etcetera, then such information posted (to the central-hub) on a website tool that has spatial maps identifying the affected vicinities or regions of concern to be avoided or visited (or evacuated to). In certain embodiments, the microbial screening device is either partially or fully controlled by the main control unit that controls the entire cleaning device.

Preferably, once the cleaning device is switched on, the cleaning device may have means to actuate the microbial screening device, or a preconfigured programs that once commanded by a user, and to send information to and from the microbial screening device that may include means to actuate or provoke the microbial screening device to collect sample from a cleaning surface and or ambient air and at a specific location uuring the cleaning operation of the cleaning device, wherein, this is carried outfev further including a sensor elements configured to sense conditions and to produce electrical sensor signals in response to sensing such conditions, wherein, such electrical sensor signals are reciprocally communicated in a line of signal between the body of the cleaning device and an external sensing element away from the cleaning device, whenever the cleaning device comes within a certain sensing distance or detection range to sense emitted electrical signals that are either being reflected or absorbed by either one or more of the sensor elements, wherein the sensor elements may further communicate or reflect or absorb the electrical sensor signals to the main control unit within the cleaning device to trigger one or more predefined responses or tasks for the microbial screening device to perform, or otherwise actuate other tasks for other components within the body of the cleaning device to carry out.

Therefore, microbial screening device herein may be in the form of a cartridge or cassette which may be configured to be easily pluggable, slot-able or mountable into a correspondingly mating aperture provided on the exteiior surface or body of the cleaning device. The removal and insertion of the cartridge in-to and out-of the cleaning device may be carried out by unskilled persons and without the need for careful control of sterile conditions in handling the cartridge. Thus, the cartridge may be configured so that it is easily mounted within the body of the cleaning device and removed after it has been exposed to a liquid or gaseous medium collected from the floor surface being cleaned by the cleaning device. The cartridge may also be arranged to have a radial or linear array of individual

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rage Ih sterile pockets, magazine, cases, cassettes' or compartments that may house self-cleaning specimen collection liquid containers with microbial probing devices; such pockets or receptacles may also have a reel or strip of activated culture medium for systematic exposure whereby strip is interleaved with another strip carrying the culture media to prevent exposed areas of the strip from contacting one another after picking up a sample from a cleaning surface. However, due to advancements and miniaturisation in the computer industry, the microbial screening device may be in the form of an electronic memory microchip within an electronic system that possesses a sample identification (probe) process that uses self-cleaning sensors or probes that receive an organic sample, converts the organic sample into a digital sample signature or code, then matches the digital sample signature with an existing digital sample signature in the database of digitized microbial substances previously stored in the memory of the microbial screening device. Once the sample is identified from a vast digital memory array (in flora and fauna) via complex methods such as algorithmic comparative digital sample signature matcljing by computer processors within the microbial screening device, (which may work on a template of the condition of what a gnotobiotic floor surface (and or relative ambient air) should be), a resultant comparative differentiation feedback is provided, and such a result may be displayable on a screen on the exterior surface of the cleaning device or such information sent telemetrically to another electronic storage device such as a computer.

Relevant and urgent information to a user of the cleaning device's such as the microbial state, and or other hazardous microscopic substances present or absent in their home (or around the vicinity or region) may be sent directly to the display screen on the exterior of the cleaning device for the user to view, once the collected sample is processed within the memory of the cleaning device; an indicium such as a sound or mark may be provided for attention of the user of the cleaning device; other ways that the user may receive such information may be from the repository central-hub (once the sample is sent to the central-hub by the cleaning device for processing, then the ceiitral-hub>resending feedback information back to cleaning device display screen for the user's attention in regard to the condition of their surfaces or ambient air; wherein such information may be sent telemetrically or wirelessly via various electronic networks such as thru radio-waves, microwaves, GPS data transmissions, various internet protocols and to the user of the (registered) cleaning device via various telecommunication electronic devices such as phone, fax, SMS, text, pager and email. At the central-hub, such information may be further processed through larger substance sample periodic databases, and may be further relayed and disseminated to relevant overseers in multilingual formats, that may be used for planning, teaching, projecting histograms, trend lines, printing and archival purposes for continuous microbial vigilance or surveillance of floor surfaces and relative ambient air surroundings in vast regions and around the world.

Preferably, the sensor elements utilize signal waves. Preferably the signal waves utilized are radio waves. Preferably the signal waves are produced, propagated and received between radio-frequency identification devices or RFHID devices. Preferably, the RFID devices work in

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conjunction with the microbial screening device working within the cleaning device. RFID technology uses low, high ultra-high and microwave frequencies to store, send and retrieve data. RFID technology can be integrated in a variety of products and systems in many fields of industry. RFID devices mostly contain two basic parts. One is an integrated circuit for reading information commonly known as-the responder, while the other is an antenna for receiving and transmitting a signal, commonly known as a transponder. RFID tags or transponders may comprise microchip circuitry attached to antennas, further wherein one or more RFID tags can contain unique serial number and or relevant information such as the room number and size of a premises and use, so that the RFID tags can receive from and transmit signals to RFID readers, whenever the sight of an RFID reader comes within/closer than a predetermined frequency range of the RFID tag's territory. In certain embodiments, various other signal transceiver devices may be used for carrying tasks as herein describe. Preferably the RFID tag are 'passive' drawing power from a magnetic field formed by coupling a coiled antenna on the RFID tag with a coiled antenna on the RFID reader. A 'frequency range' determines the types of applications the RFID tags and readers may be used for. A 'read rate' comprises the maximum range (in bytes per second) at which data can be read from RFID tags. 'Detection range' is the distance at which the RFID reader can communicate with the RFID tag. With passive RFID tag, the detection range is determined by the frequency, reader output, power, antenna design and power up method.

In some embodiments an RFID reader is coupled to a directional antenna within a body of the cleaning device. In some embodiments, the body of the hand held device comprises at least one protrusion in which the directional antenna is at least partially housed. In some embodiments, the RFID reader need not be in line with of sight presentation of an RFID tag to read the RFID tag. Thus, the RFID reader may read RFID tag hidden beneath the surface of a wall, beneath the tiles of a restaurant kitchen floor, cold room, or wall, door or furniture of premises.

Preferably, the integrated circuit of the RFID reader or responder may be embedded inside the body of the cleaning device while the other part or the RFID tag or transponder may be embedded into or on a stationary location such as a door frame in the entrance of separate room or premises or under the floor tiles etc; so that whenever the RFID reader working within the cleaning device comes into proximity range of the RFID tag stationary placed in premises or room being cleaned, the two devices can communicate. One or more resultant action of the communication may be the automatic actuation of the swabbing element of the microbial screening device being performed; however, in certain embodiments, manual actuation of the microbial screening device to take a sample from the cleaning surface or air may be done by a user. Besides microbial sample information, other information that may be exchanged may include serial number of the room and the usage of the room among others. In some embodiments, the RFID tag may be placed within the body of the cleaning device whilst the RFID reader is positioned stationary at a certain location such as along a corridor. Preferably, the distance at which the RFID reader transmits a signal for the RFID tag is

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limited to a certain cone sight length or bandwidth, so that specific reading of a certain RFID tag is not interfered by nearby signals of different RFID tags in other rooms; that is, the RFID reader need not be in line with of sight presentation of an RFID tag to read the RFID tag. Thus, the RFID reader may read RFID tag hidden beneath the surface of a wall, door or furniture of premises. However, in certain embodiments, the RFID reader may have to be in line with an RFID tag for interrogation. One advantage of having RFID readers embedded under premises such as restaurants and airport floors is that it can be verified by a remote person in authority that the surface has been cleaned. Another advantage is that where public health is concerned e.g in restaurants, a foocj health regulator or the owner of a restaurant can be remotely alerted via his mobile phone whether the restaurant kitchen and lavatories have been cleaned or not according to a particular schedule. Similarly, food health authorities may be able to monitor whether adequate cleaning programmes are adhered to remotely by a vast array of restaurants within a wide region. Thus, it may be possible to have replica RFID tags placed around real RFID tags so that it is not possible to avoid cleaning a whole area where the RFID tags are visible.

However, it is preferably that in such an embodiment, RFID tags are hidden under wall tiles and floor surfaces and their locations kept as secret so that the entire cleaning surface is adequately cleaned by the user of the cleaning device. This would help to keep restaurants and take aways in a more hygienic state and the periodic information sent telemetrically by individual cleaning devices via the restaurant cleaning devices network would help to establish the origin or emergence development and trailing of harmful living or non-living microscopic substances before any member>of the public is affected by the outcome of such a predicament. It would also be possible to trail unrelated microbial substances from unrelated backgrounds related to say, a restaurant directly or indirectly. For example, it may be possible to track down suspect microbial substances from the source (e.g abattoir) to via the food manufacturing premises and then to the restaurant or vice-versa. The patent disclosure herein aims to make invisible microscopic substances visible. Other fields which can gain from the disclosure are animal farms, abattoirs, hospitals, airports, seaports, schools and any other place where multitudes of people dwell and interact.

Preferably, the RFID readers may have the capacity to send information wirelessly or telemetrically to and from a computer server locally located or remotely located; wherein transceiver elements within the microbial screening device may be configured to send/receive information to and from the remote server; wherein further wireless telecommunication means such as the internet, microwaves, radio waves, ground waves etc., may be used to convey the information further. Thus, RFLE) devices transmitting or receiving radio signals may be configured to work incorporation or in conjunctional with the microbial screening device. For example, the lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device may work in conjunction with RFID devices, communicating information between one or more RFID devices either via radio waves (propagated) transmitted or (sensed) received via transceivers

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and or antennas in the same method described above. Preferably, the cleaning device herein utilizes omnidirectional antennas. However, directional antennas may also be applicable.

In certain embodiments, it may be possible to use satellite technology such as the Global Positioning System or GPS and GPS-RFID technology to locate precise positions of the cleaning device within a large open area or within premises; wherein such an embodiment, there is provided satellite signal communication device working between the satellite network and the cleaning device and in conjunction with the microbial screening device. The connection of the satellite network and the cleaning device enables the cleaning device to carry out various other tasks such as; sample frequency collection, identification of the premises location, temperature, humidity levels etc., wherein exchange of such information and transmission of the collected microbial sample data to a central server or central-hub is telemctrically performed and feedback provided. In such an embodiment, the cleaning device may be on an autonomous setting. ^

In yet another autonomous setting of the cleaning device, the accuracy of positioning and guidance of the cleaning device from room to room and or premises to premises can be enhanced with waypoint emitters, embedded in the floor surfaces, walls and are detectable by the main control unit within the cleaning device via appropriate sensors to enable actuation of the microbial screening device. Radar and infrared signals may also be used to guide the cleaning device in an autonomous capacity. In certain embodiments of the above aspect, the RFID devices may be used to operate within separate lone microbial/microscopic substance screening devices; (such as microbial and substance screening network between a chain of international hotels and a holiday cruise ship liners company. A microbial and substance screening network betwixt a sky scraper building and an underground train station or terminus in a city or town. A microbial and substance screening network betwixt an aircraft cleaning depot and a global ports authority, a train-care depot and an airport immigration and emigrational gateway, microbial screening network between children's animal farms and a children schools) utilizing and or employing the same template or system for microbial and microscopic substance monitoring, analysing and communicating capabilities with the central-hub as described above herein and in this patent disclosure. The microbial and other microscopic substance monitoring subscription services may be subscribed for by clients via quarterly/seasonal or annual renewable contracts, or by pay-as-you-use methods.

Therewithal, the long felt but unfulfilled need for a new cost effective and readily available way to monitor, identify and track down microbial substances on the surface, liquid, and air and whether such microscopic objects are living or non-living. The method of the present invention provides a cost effective way in which microbes living or non-living can be easily identified, monitored and destroyed using any cleaning device installed with the automated means for achieving this goal and further broadening and developing it so that it includes any possible area, field which encounters any of the challenges discussed herein. In general, the aspect of the cleaning device in this patent disclosure will help the user to monitor the amount of microbial and or non-microbial microscopic substances such as bacteria, fungus, nitrous

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oxides and pollen present or absent on the surfaces and ambient air in a room or premises being cleaned using any known cleaning device conceivable across the world. These and other meritorious features and advantages of the present invention will be more fully appreciated from the following detailed description, drawings and claims.

SUMMARY

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a microscopic object identifying surface cleaning device comprising; a cleaning device and a microscopic object identifying device.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The features of the present invention will be more readily apparent and understood by the references to the following detailed description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein;

FIG. 1 is a schematic view representation of the cleaning device and electrical device.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view representation of the cleaning device and electrical device in a varying example. ^

FIG. 2a is an alternative example of FIG. 2.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view representation of the cleaning device and external electrical devices.

FIG. 4 shows an example of external elements of the cleaning device concealed under various surfaces.

FIG. 5 shows an example of external elements of the cleaning device concealed under various surfaces (kitchen).

FIG. 6 shows an example of external elements of the cleaning device concealed under various surfaces (lavatories).

FIG. 7 shows insertion of the electric devicd'into the cleaning device.

FIG. 8 shows a perspective view of a teeth cleaning device according to this invention. FIG. 9 shows a view of cleaning device in FIG. 8 being connected with a computer. FIG. 10 shows a hand held cleaning device.

FIG. 11 shows a schematic view of an alternative example of the teeth cleaning device. FIG. 12 shows an autonomous cleaning device and external electrical device.

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FIG. 12a shows a view of a road sweeping cleaning device (truck) according to this invention.

FIG. 13 shows the combination of various unrelated cleaning devices and the feedback from the central-hub according to this invention.

FIG. 13a shows a further example of FIG 13 combination of various unrelated cleaning devices and the feedback from the central-hub according to this invention.

FIG. 13b shows a further example of FlCf 13a combination of various unrelated cleaning devices and the feedback from the central-hub according to this invention.

FIG. 14 shows a computer screen view arrangement according to this invention..

FIG. 15 shows an example of the computer screen view according to this invention.

FIG. 15a shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 15.

FIG. 15b shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 15a.

FIG. 15c shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 15b.

FIG. 15d shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 15c.

FIG. 16 shows an example of the computer screen view according to this invention.

FIG. 16u shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 16.

FIG. 16b shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 16a.

FIG. 16c shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 16b.

FIG. 16d shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 16c.

FIG. 16e is a portion enlargement of FIG 16.

FIG. 17 shows an example of the computer screen view according to this invention.

FIG. 17a shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 17.

FIG. 17b shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 17a.

FIG. 17c shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 17b.

FIG. 17d shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 17c.

FIG. 18 shows an example of the computer screen view according to this invention.

FIG. 18a shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 18.

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FIG. 18b shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 18a.

FIG. 18c shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 18b.

FIG. 18d shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 18c.

FIG. 19 shows an example of the computer screen view according to this invention.

FIG. 19a shows an example of the computer screen view according to this invention.

FIG. 19b shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 19a.

FIG. 19c shows a different view related to the computer screen on FIG 19b.

FIG. 19d shows a different view related to tjje computer screen on FIG 19c.

FIG. 20 shows an example of a post office network according to this invention.

FIG. 21 shows an example of a gas pipe network according to this invention.

FIG. 22 shows an example of a water mains network according to this invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT(S)

Referring now to the drawings where like reference numerals identify corresponding or similar elements throughout several views.

With reference to FIG 1, FIG 2, FIG 3 and FIG 4, are schematic layout of a cleaning device 10 may include interface module 8 attached to the body 12 and configured to provide an interface between an electrical element 14 external or internal to the cleaning device 10.

The cleaning device 10 therefore includes its body 12 and the microscopic object/substance identifying element in the form of an electrical element 14 or non-electrical device (not shown). The microscopic substance identifying element or electrical element 14 can be an independent device (see FIG 1) which is connectable to the cleaning device 10 or the microscopic substance identifying element can be in-built (see FIG 2) into any cleaning device 10 or other cleaning devices such as 10a or lOz.

Preferably, the electrical element 14 is configured to be removable from the body of a cleaning device 10 by a user and to be reinsert-able by a user on or into the body 12 of any cleaning device 10. The electrical element 14 is in the form of a disconnectable or removable cartridge or cassette that has exterior guide grooves (not shown) on its housing that mate or correspond to grooves and notches on the inside of the 'slotting' aperture or interface module 8 into which that leads the electrical element 14 into body 12 or for mutual connection with the interface module 8 within the body of the cleaning device 10 and to securely engage and or latch the electrical element 14 and the irderface module 8 together in place. The cleaning device 10 may include one or more interface module 8 attached to the body of cleaning device 10 and configured to provide an interface between an element external (electrical

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rage ojl element 14) to the cleaning device 10 and at least one element (electrical element 14) attached to the body 12. The interface module 8 may be configured to be a one-for-all interfacing module 8; wherein different interfacing elements with different capacities and purposes may be used in a single or a standardised format interface module 8 and correspondingly mating cartridges of electrical element 14. Some of the interface module 8 may be positioned on the peripheral or exterior surface of the cleaning device 10, whilst other interfacing module 8 may be positioned within body of the cleaning device 10 or other cleaning devices such as 10a or lOz.

Some interfacing module 8 are attached to the cleaning device 10 body 12 to provide an interconnecting element or port for interconnecting with one or more external electrical devices. Other interfacing module 8 may wirelessly (see FIG 1) or telemetrically provide connection (via a standardised radio wave protocol format) for a one or two-way communication between the electrical element 14 within the cleaning device 10 and one or more other computerized electrical devices (e.g a home computer or a remotely located central computer or central-hub) and or electronic signal wave reflective elements such as RFID tags and GPS. ,

In certain embodiments of the above aspect, the cartridge of the electrical element 14 may house a non-electrical device (not shown); wherein the cartridge of the non-electrical device may house pre-treated or sterile culture in pockets, magazine, cases, reels in storage cassettes or cases, so that microbial organic specimens or samples collected from cleaning surfaces using manual or automatic means may be kept for further analysis and or proliferated. In such and other embodiments, the cartridge of the non-electrical device may be used as a sterile culture media carrying means. The cartridge of the non-electrical device may be configured to expose a portion of sterile pre-treated strip of culture medium with collected sample material taken from a cleaning surface 11; wherein the sterile pre-treated strip is provided from a culture storage means that may be a radial reel or a linear stacks of stored sterile pre-treated strip material in one compartmentalized partition of the cartridge, and then the contaminated strip stored at another separate compartmentalized part of the cartridge. A user may then remove a used cartridge from the cleaning device or replace a fresh or un-used cartridge into the cleaning device.

Preferably, the cleaning device 10 has means to monitor and detect the quantity of microbial and or non-microbial substances present or absent upon a cleaning surface 11 and ambient air. Preferably, the electrical element 14 is a microbial screening device as described earlier or microscopic substance identifying element which works or operates in conjunction or incorporation with the cleaning device 10 and possesses means to perform various tasks; wherein such various tasks may include and not limited to collecting, identifying and monitoring living and non-living microscopic substances within different mediums such as liquid and gas and on surfaces and then digitizing the organic sample before sending the digitised sample via cable (FIG 2) or by wireless (FIG 1) means to other computerised systems. The electrical element 14 may be inbuilt or intertwined within other workings in the

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body of the cleaning device 10 such that such an electrical element 14 is permanently fixed and irremovable from the cleaning device 10. However, in the preferred embodiment, the electrical element 14 is disconnectable from the cleaning device 10 via disconnectable means. The disconnecting means are arranged within the slot aperture on the body 12 and leading into the interface module 8 so as to provide connection or disconnection between the electrical element 14 and the cleaning device 10. The interface module 8 may also connect the cleaning device 10 to an electrical power source via cable. In certain embodiments, the electrical element 14 is connected to the interface module 8 and may be configured for one or two way communication over a wireless signal. Thus, in certain embodiments of the above aspect, the electrical element 14 connected to the interface module 8 may be configured for one or two way communication over a wireless signal and network and further to one or more mechanical and or non-mechanical devices to perform predefined tasks within the cleaning device 10; wherein such tasks may include collecting an organic sample from a cleaning surface 11 or ambient air, digitizing the organic sample processing and sample analysis of the digitized sample, storing the sample; or electrical element 14 may collect an organic sample from a cleaning surface 11 or ambient air, digitizing the organic sample processing and sample analysis of the digitized sample, storing the sample and or disseminating the digitized sample to other remote computerised systems and electrical devices. Thus, the interface module 8 may comprise a plurality of interface ports, or wireless interfacing elements for interfacing (the electrical element 14) with active external elements for exchanging operating commands, digital data and other electrical signals. Therefore, the interface module 8 may further interface physically (or wirelessly) with one or more external electrical element 14 that may include, and not limited to; an RFID device, a wireless transceiver device, a handheld remote control, a satellite network and positioning connection, a disconnectable (lock-on, lock-off) extension handle component, personal digital assistants or PDA's, a cellular/mobile phone which mates with interface module 8, a local or remote computer system, a modem, a microbial screening device, a portable memory device for exchanging code and or data with the cleaning device 10 and a network interface for interfacing the cleaning device 10 with any electronic device (or other cleaning devices) connected to the network. Thus, the electrical element 14 above may work incorporation with one or more above devices working individually or together in a single cleaning device 10 unit, or as a combination of the above devices in a single cleaning device 10 unit. For example, the microbial screening device or electrical element 14 may work in conjunction with an RFID transceiver device in a single cleaning device 10 unit, a mobile phone and the electrical element 14 may work in conjunction withvan RFID transceiver device in a single cleaning device 10 unit; a GPS device working together with electrical element 14 and a transceiver device all-in-one unit may work in conjunction with an RFID transceiver device in a single cleaning device 10 etc. Thus, the electrical element 14 may be also configurable to (directly or indirectly) communicate with a remote computer system or server whilst being physically connected to the cleaning device 10. The electrical element 14 also may be configurable to communicate (directly or indirectly) with a remote computer system or server wirelessly with the cleaning device 10. The electrical element 14 also may be configurable to communicate

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(directly or indirectly) with a remote computer system or server whilst disconnected or not being physically connected to the cleaning device 10 that is as a microscopic substance identifying element described herein this patent disclosure. Thus, electrical element 14 may also be configurable to communicate (directly or indirectly) with a remote computer system or server, respectively and or simultaneously whilst disconnected from the cleaning device 10, and also communicate (directly or indirectly) with a remote computer system or server respectively and or simultaneously when connected physically to the cleaning device 10. Thusly, the electrical element 14 may also communicate with a remote computer system or server via the cleaning device 10, and vice versa. A remote computer system or server may communicate with the electrical element 14 via the cleaning device 10 and vice versa. Such communications may be transmitted from various and or different computerised networks to the cleaning device 10 thru physical (electrical element 14) interfaces or wireless interfaces. A main control unit (not shown) in the cleaning device 10 may control such communications in the cleaning device 10. One advantage of such an implement is that relevant urgent information to a user of the cleaning device 10 such as microbial or other hazardous microscopic substances present in their home (or around the vicinity or region) may be sent directly to the display screen on the exterior of the cleaning device 10 or via an indicium such as a recognizable mark or sound alert. Moreover such information may still be sent to the user's personal computer smartphone and mobile phone via SMS.

Thus, some interface module 8 may be within the body of the cleaning device 10. Such interface module 8may be configured to receive one or more separate modular electrical element 14; wherein the electrical element 14 may be configured to be mounted or engaged and disengaged by sliding-in and sliding-out via guide notches or grooves on the housing of the electrical element 14 mating with a 'slotting' aperture on the exterior body 12 of the cleaning device 10, and to then gain secure-tetching engagement for the electrical element 14 within one or more interface module 8 in the body of the cleaning device 10; wherein the electrical element 14 once connected to interface module 8 may be controlled by the main control unit (not shown) in the cleaning device 10; and can be configured to send or receive information to and from the cleaning device 10, or via the electrical element 14 may be configured to send or receive information from a remote computer or server, or combination of both, to and from different computerised networks and different telecommunication protocols and mediums. Thus, the interface module 8 may act as a docking-station for differently or variously tasked electrical element 14 which possess a robust standardised housing structure that mate with the 'slotting' aperture on interface module 8 in exterior body 12 of the cleaning device 10, which leads the electrical element 14 to engagingly connect with the interface module 8. Latching and hinging elements may be implemented for holding the electrical device 14 within the cavity of interface module 8.

Preferably, the electrical element 14 may include and not limited to cleaning devices for nonliving surfaces, but may be included in other cleaning devices aimed at living surfaces such as; foot spas to monitor/measure/detect disease and disease causing bacterial presence or

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absence in-between toes; ambient air temperature and humidity measuring devices; bathtubs; toothbrushes to measure/monitor bacterial count for teeth/gum disease inception; local or remote weather-stations; signal propagating/signal sensing and processing devices; and microbial screening devices that may monitor, mould and fungus, viral and bacterial, pollen and levels thereof, and non-microbial substances such as dust, fumes and pollution levels e.g., nitrous oxides, fibres, humidity, heating ventilation, carbon-monoxide and air conditioning machines, clocks, humidifiers, dehumidifiers to check for odours smoke and soot, desiccant devices or can be the combination or amalgamation of one or more of all the above (and not restricted to all the above) in one or more electrical element 14 connectable to the docking interface module 8. For example, an electrical element 14 comprising the microbial screening device working in incorporation or in conjunction with RFID transceiver device in a single unit, an electrical element 14 comprising the microbial screening device and a modem; Thus, the electrical element 14 may also be configured to work or carry out tasks independently; wherein the electrical element 14 when disengaged or disconnected from the interface module 8 of body 12 of the cleaning device 10 may continue to carry out or to perform various tasks independently, such as; taking^ol factory sample collections and communicating with the remote central-hub 16, and to then recommence dependent functioning once the electrical element 14 is re-engaged or reconnected back to the interface module 8 of the cleaning device 10, which then allows the main control unit of the cleaning device 10 to retake or regain control of the electrical element 14 during the period or from the moment that the electrical element 14 is reconnected back to the cleaning device 10. Thus, the electrical element 14 can be partially or fully controlled by the main control unit that controls the entire cleaning device 10. The electrical element 14 may also be configured to draw electrical power from the power source (AC/DC) of the cleaning device 10 via connections of interface module 8, but may preferably possess a self-rechargeable power source such as a battery. Nevertheless, the power source of the electrical element 14 may be manually replenished e.g., thru conventional battery replacement. The electrical element 14 may be configured to communicate wirelessly or by using electrical signals for communication with the cleaning device 10, specifically, without being physically connected to the interface module 8 of the cleaning device 10 by using any physical or tangible means, but instead, by using wireless or telemetric interface connection means. Thus, the electrical element 14 may be configured to directly communicate with remote computer system or server central-hub 16 whilst not being physically connected to the cleaning device 10; that is, the electrical element 14 may be configured to work (using power from its self-contained battery) when not physically connected to the cleaning device 10, that is, when fully disconnected from the cleaning device 10; wherein electrical element 14 may be fixedly positioned or 'planted' upon a stationary location such as; on a building ceiling or wall e.g., for olfactory hazardous fume monitoring and detection; or any living or non-living produce distribution vehicles and relative distribution premises; or in refuse collection vehicles and relative premises and bins; or in postal boxes, sorting and distribution premises; or on a surface such as an industrial floor e.g., to detect leakages and other microscopic substances (for salvaging or disposal); or to monitor a gaseous and or liquid pipeline network underneath a busy vibratory prone

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stairway escalator and or inside an elevator, etc. Thus, the electrical element 14 may be a robust hand-held multipurpose adaptable implement having a standardised housing or universal configuration and possessing diverse tasks for performing numerous duties in monitoring, identifying, trailing a wide array of living or non-living microscopic substances within different medium (e.g. gaseous and liquid) whether physically connected or inserted into the cleaning device 10, or when not physically connected to the cleaning device 10. Theretofore, the electrical element 14 rtjay be a lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device or simply lone microbial 14a (see FIG 2a) which still operates when not connected to the cleaning device 10 to monitor, trail, identify and detect living or non-living microscopic elements and may also send digitalised microbial/substance sample data collected from a remote monitoring site to a computer system such as the central hub 16; and wherein the computer system (16) may further process the collected information and send or relay feedback to plurality of remotely placed individual lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device or lone microbial 14a working in numerous remote monitoring sites elsewhere or across vast distances. The lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device-lone microbial 14a can be configured to process sample data information and to store the sample data information within memory to await manual retrieval or transfer. The manual retrieval of the sample data information may be transferred from the lone microbial 14a to receiving electronic data receiving device via temporarily connecting a cable between the peripheral ports on the lone microbial 14a and electronic data receiving device such as portable hand-held pads, personal digital assistants or PDA's, mobile phones, set-top boxes, etc., however, the information may be transferred via wireless means such as Bluetooth. Relevant and urgent information or feedback is automatically relayed back to user of the cleaning device's electrical element 14; wherein such feedback includes and not limited to the microbial state of the surface 11 or ambient microbial state, and or other hazardous microscopic substances present or absent in their home (or around the vicinity or region of respective cleaning device 10) and may be sent directly to the display screen on the exterior of the cleaning device 10 for the user to view, once the collected sample is processed within the memory of the electrical element 14; an indicium such as a sound or mark may be provided for attention of the user of cleaning device 10; other ways that the user may receive such information may be from the repository central hub 16 (once the sample is sent to the central hub 16 by the cleaning device 10 for processing of the sample data before central hub 16 resending feedback information back to cleaning device 10 display screen for the user's attention in regard to the condition of tjjeir surfaces 11 or ambient air; wherein such information may also be sent telemetrically or wirelessly via various electronic networks such as thru radio-waves, microwaves, GPS data transmissions, various internet protocols and to the user of the (registered) cleaning device 10; and also that central hub 16 may send feedback information via various other telecommunication electronic devices such as telephone, smartphones, fax, SMS, text, pager,email and etcetera.

Thus, the electrical element 14 and template thereof as implemented in the microbial surface and ambient air screening aspect of the patent disclosure herein, may be used to work as part

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of a 'team5 of plurality of lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device or lone microbial 14a monitoring and detecting hazardous microscopic substances in a vast array of unrelated fields and backgrounds whilst telemetrically or wirelessly sending and receiving data to and from the analysis, repository central-hub 16 computer system. Electrical element 14 or respectively lone microbial 14a may be configured to directly communicate with the remote computer or server central-hub 16 and or the cleaning device 10 simultaneously or respectively and at any time. Therefore the electrical element 14 may be configured to possess a power source that may be manually replenished or rechargeable, such as via battery power source. The electrical element 14 as described above and lone microbial 14a may therefore be an independent microscopic substance monitoring device of any shape or structure and can be retrofitted into existing or contemporary prior-art wet and dry cleaning electrical and non-electrical manual cleaning apparatuses (such as vacuum cleaners and bucket and mop cleaning apparatuses) and configured to operate or carry out different unrelated diverse living and non-living microscopic substance identifying, monitoring, trailing tasks as described herein this patent disclosure.

Preferably, the electrical element 14 and lone microbial 14a comprises (and is not limited to) being microbial screening device working in the cleaning device 10, and having means to monitor and detect the quantity of microbial substances present or absent upon a cleaning surface 11 and ambient air; and may be achieved by having one or more microbial screening device (electrical element 14) fixed on the body of the cleaning device 10 in order to collect sample from a cleaning surface 11 before during, and or after a cleaning cycle by the cleaning device 10 over a cleaning surface 11. Preferably the electrical element 14 (microbial screening device) may take sample by direct contact with the cleaning surface 11 using a swabbing element (FIG 1-3) or the microbial sample may be retrieved from along waste liquid conduits, air filters or at the (cesspit) sump in the waste tank receptacle of the cleaning device 10. Ambient air samples may be taicen via olfactory means or sniffing means or any other convenient means. Preferably, the microbial screening device (electrical element 14) working within the cleaning device 10 may be automatically actuated to take microbial sample from the cleaning surface 11 and ambient air via sensor elements (not shown) fixed on body 12 of the cleaning device 10 and communicating between the microbial screening device (electrical element 14) in the cleaning device 10 and sensor elements placed in strategic places external to the body 12 of the cleaning device 10. The sample collecting actuation mechanism of the microbial screening device (electrical element 14) may be prompted to collect/send a sample via identity positioning means; and wherein a location identification element is utilized such as GPS or RFID sensors in every room. However, collecting a microbial sample may be actuated using a manual means by a user pressing a sample collection actuating button on the exterior of the cleaning device 10. Preferably, the microbial screening device (electrical element 14) has self-cleaning or self-flushing capabilities to maintain the swabbing element of the microbial screening device (electrical element 14) in a sterile condition for use before every new sample is collected. Preferably, the microbial screening device (electrical element 14) working in the cleaning device 10 has means to process the collected samples against previously collected samples so that such samples are matched to sight discrepancies within the stacking of the samples and an alert or warning message is displayed on a suitable exterior surface of the cleaning device 10 for the user to perform adequate measure; and wherein such samples are stored in electronic

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digitized algorithms database within the memory of the electrical device 14. However, an audio warning or alert visual message mayj)e received from a remote computer system (16) or server with which the cleaning dcvice 10 (electrical element 14) telemetrically communicates sample data with. Preferably, the microbial screening device (electrical element 14) working in the cleaning device 10 may have means for transferring the digitalized sample data information collected from the cleaning surface 11 by the cleaning device 10. Preferably, there is provided means to transfer data to and from the cleaning device 10 to an electronic data receiving device. The means to transfer data from the cleaning device 10 to an electronic data receiving device such as a remote computer system central-hub 16 (or vice versa) may be done by using wireless means such as by utilizing radio waves transceivers. The remote computer system may be one or more server or one or more central-hub 16. In addition, the connectivity between the microbial screening devices (electrical element 14) working within the cleaning device 10 may be, for example via Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), satellite communication networks and Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), for communication between the cleaning device 10 and a computer server or main central-hub 16. However, transferring the digital sample information from the cleaning device 10 to the remote computer system (16 or other) may be performed via removable cable extending from peripheral interface, module 8 or port on the surface of the cleaning device 10 and a peripheral interface unit on the computer system, e.g., via USB cable, USB mass storage devices commonly known as flash keys or flash pens, SDHC, HDMI, MMC, XD card mass storage devices etc. Once sample data is in the computer system, it may be further interpreted, untangled, analysed/processed and stored. The data may then be disseminated to numerous other computer systems (for observation) in remote other locations via any means such as email and various other wireless ways to convey messages as above described or to be manipulated to form charts, histograms, maps, projections and simulations. The system of the electronic data receiving device may include any type of electronically connected group of computers including, for instance, the following; PC or desktop computer, personal digital assistants or PDA's, server, portable, hand-held, mobile/cellular phones, digital television set-top boxes, or any other desired type of configuration. As used herein, a telemetric communication means includes network variations such as public internet, a secure internet, a private network, a public network, a value added network, an intranet, satellite communication networks, radio waves, microwaves etc. Thus, the processes that are undergone by each ofjhe electrical element 14 working within cleaning device 10 and lone microbial 14a may be redistributed to one or more electrical element 14 combined together in a single module, or made available in, for example a shareable dynamic link library connected to the server or central-hub 16 as disclosed herein. Preferably, plurality of cleaning devices (10) having individual microbial screening device (electrical element 14) may send digitalised microbial sample data collected from a remote cleaning surface site to the computer system; and wherein the computer system may further process the collected information and send or relay feedback to the plurality of remote individual electrical element 14 working in plurality of cleaning device 10 spread apart far and wide in certain region or around the world.

Thusly, the electrical element 14 is a removable, demountable cartridge or cassette approximately the size of, but not necessarily the size of an ordinary mobile or cellular phone; and has insertion guide-grooves and or notches on its housing for sliding into alignment with a mating receptacle interface module 8 within the body 12 of the cleaning

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device 10; wherein, interface module 8 is provided in an aperture of the body 12 of the cleaning device 10 so as to mate with an interface module 8 on cartridge or cassette housing the electrical element 14; the alignment and locking of the interface module 8 between body 12 and the electrical element 14, allows one or more operations of the electrical element 14 to be carried out, after being secured by latching mechanism (not shown) for secure engagement. The latching mechanism can also function to disengage the electrical element 14 from the receptacle of interface module 8, thereby allowing removal of the electrical element 14 from the body of the cleaning device 10. The electrical element 14 may carry out one or more processes described above, such as sample data collections, processing and storage and or data dissemination to the central-hub 16 or elsewhere. Electrical power to run the electrical element 14 may be delivered via the interface module 8 connections from an electrical source within the cleaning device 10 or delivered to cleaning device from an external source such as a mains electricity source. The electrical element 14 may carry its own independent self-contained power source. The self-contained power source may be a rechargeable battery. The rechargeable battery may be recharged by the interface module 8 connection so that the electrical element 14 and lone microbial 14a can be usable whether inserted into the cleaning device 10 or when not inserted into cleaning device 10, yet still being able to carry out the above tasks of surface sample and olfactory sample collection, identifying, trailing, processing, storage and sample data dissemination of said data to the central-hub 16; thusly, being similar to a hand-held model that is,yet capable of being inserted into the cleaning device 10 to perform the equivalent tasks satisfactorily, as disclosed herein in this patent. Thus, in a certain embodiment of the above aspect, a conventional mobile/cellular phone or smart telephone may have in-built microbial screening device (electrical element 14) with above capabilities of surface 11 sample and or olfactory sample collection, identification, trailing, histogram charting, processing and sample data dissemination to the central-hub 16. Thus, it may be possible to collect sample data using the general public, by letting the general public take samples using their cellular telephones and smartphones from various locations, say, in rivers, lakes, beaches, hotels, schools, hospitals, taking carbon monoxide levels in cities around the world and etcetera, then such information posted (to the central-hub 16) on a website tool that has spatial maps identifying the affected vicinities or regions of concern to be avoided or otherwise visited (or evacuated to). In certain embodiments, the electrical element 14 is either partially or fully controlled by the main control unit that controls the entire cleaning device 10.

Preferably, with reference to FIG 1 to FIG 4, when the cleaning device 10 is powered on or switched on (automatically or manually), the cleaning device 10 may have means to actuate the electrical element 14, or via preconfigured programs that once commanded by the user or automatically, and to send information to and from the electrical element 14 that may include means to actuate or provoke the electrical element 14 to collect sample from cleaning surface 11 and or ambient air and at a specific location during the cleaning operation of the cleaning device 10, wherein, this is carried out by further including a sensor element 20a configured to sense conditions and to produce or otherwise absorb electrical sensor signals 18 in response to sensing such conditions, wherein, such electrical sensor signals 18 are

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reciprocally communicated in a line of signal between the body 12 of the cleaning device 10 and an external sensing element 20 away from the cleanmg device 10, whenever the cleaning device 10 comes within a certain sensing distance or detection range to sense emitted electrical signals that are either being reflected or absorbed by either one or more of the sensor element 20a, wherein the sensor element 20a may further communicate the electrical sensor signals 18 to the main control unit (and or electrical element 14) within the cleaning device 10 to trigger one or more predefined responses or tasks for the electrical element 14 to perform, or otherwise actuate other cleaning tasks for other components within the body 12 of the cleaning device 10 to carry out. The elements comprising electrical element 14 are not limited only to the ones shown on the drawing figures but may be more or less and having unlimited capacities relevant and regarding the spirit of this patent disclosure.

Preferably, the sensor element 20a utilizes electronic electrical sensor signals 18. Preferably the signal waves (18) utilized is radio waves. Preferably the signal waves (18) produced, propagated and received between sensor element 20a and the electrical element 14 are between radio-frequency identification devices or RFID elements. Preferably the sensor element 20a is the electrical sensor signals 18 emitter by one or more responders within the electrical element 14. Preferably the sensing element 20 is the electrical sensor signals 18 receiver by one or more transponders external to the electrical element 14. Preferably, the RFID elements work in conjunction with the electrical element 14 working within the cleaning device 10.

With reference to FIG 1 to FIG 5, the sensing element 20 are RFID transponder whilst the sensor element 20a are RFID responders. RFID technology uses low, high ultra-high and microwave frequencies to store, send and retrieve data. RFID technology can be integrated in a variety of products and systems in many fields of industry. RFID devices mostly contain two basic parts. One is an integrated circuit for reading information commonly known as the responder, while the other is an antenna for receiving and transmitting a signal, commonly known as a transponder. RFID tags or transponders may comprise microchip circuitry attached to antennas, further wherein one or more RFID tags can contain unique serial number and or relevant information such as the room number and size of a premises and use, so that the RFID tags can receive from and> transmit signals to RFID readers, whenever the sight of an RFID reader comes within/closer than a predetermined frequency range of the RFID tag's territory. In certain embodiments, various other signal transceiver devices may be used for carrying tasks as herein describe. Preferably the RFID tag are 'passive' drawing power from a magnetic field formed by coupling a coiled antenna on the RFID tag with a coiled antenna on the RFID reader. A 'frequency range' determines the types of applications the RFID tags and readers may be used for. A 'read rate' comprises the maximum range (in bytes per second) at which data can be read from RFID tags. 'Detection range' is the distance at which the RFID reader can communicate with the RFID tag. With passive RFID tag, the detection range is determined by the frequency, reader output, power, antenna design and power up method.

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On Monday 9lh January 2012 the Metro newspaper in the UK reported on page 12 and page 13 titled 'DNA barcoding is dish of the day\about an on-going DNA-barcoding project where 'they see the future based around the concept of DNA-barcoding—a form of 'fingerprinting' that can easily identify a species in the same way a supermarket scanner reads the barcode of an item'. Some of the reasons for this project is to stop food fraud and mislabelling, overfishing, invasive organisms and water quality. In relation to the patent disclosure herein, the prospect of DNA-barcoding combined with the microbial screening device and cleaning device herein would help bring this realization closer to its goal and the goal of this patent disclosure.

Thereto, RFID tags can be hidden under wall tiles and floor surfaces and their locations kept as secret so that the entire cleaning surface (11) is fully cleaned by the user of the cleaning device 10 in a commercial setting. This would help to keep hospitals, hotels, restaurants and take aways in a more hygienic state and the periodic information sent telemetrically by individual cleaning devices via the restaurant cleaning devices network (see FIG 5 and FIG 13) would help to establish the origin or ^mergence development and trailing of harmful living or non-living microscopic substances before any member of the public is affected by the outcome of such a predicament. It would also be possible to trail unrelated microbial substances from unrelated backgrounds related to say, a restaurant directly or indirectly. For

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Preferably, the integrated circuit of the RFID reader or responder (18) may be embedded inside the body of the cleaning device 10 while the other part or the RFID tag or transponder (20) may be embedded into or on a stationary location such as a door frame in the entrance of separate room or premises or under wall and floor surface (11) tiles etc.; so that whenever the RFID reader working within the cleaning device 10 comes into proximity range of the RFID tag stationary placed in premises or room being cleaned, the two devices can communicate. One or more resultant action of the communication may be the automatic actuation of the swabbing element of the microbial screening device or electrical element 14 being performed; however, in certain embodiments, manual actuation of the microbial screening device or electrical element 14 to take a sample from the cleaning surface 11 or air may be done by a user. Besides microbial sample information, other information that may be exchanged may include serial number of the room and the usage of the room among others. Other fields which can gain from the disclosure are animal farms, abattoirs, tourist hotels and holiday cruise-ships, hospitals, airports, ^seaports, schools and any other place where multitudes of people dwell and interact.

The RFID tag (20) may be placed within the body of the cleaning device 10 whilst the RFID reader (20a) is positioned stationary at a certain location such as along a corridor or the RFID reader (20a) may be placed within the body of the cleaning device 10 whilst the RFID tag (20) is positioned stationary at a certain location such as along a corridor or room. Preferably, the RFID reader (20a) is positioned within the electrical element 14 and the RFID tag (20) located elsewhere such as on the surface 11. Preferably, the distance at which the RFID reader (20a) transmits a signal for the RFID tag (20) is limited to a certain cone sight length or bandwidth, so that specific reading of a certain RFID tag (20) is not interfered by nearby signals of different RFID tags and responders in other rooms; that is, the RFID reader (20a) need not be in line with of sight presentation of an RFID tag (20) to read the RFID tag (20). Thus, the RFID reader (20a) may read RFID tag (20) hidden beneath the surface (11) of a wall, door, room, cabinet, or furniture iir premises. However, in certain embodiments, the RFID reader may have to be in line with an RFID tag for interrogation. Preferably, the RFID readers (18) may have the capacity to send information wirelessly or telemetrically to and from a computer server locally located or remotely located; wherein transceiver elements within electrical element 14 may be configured to send/receive information to and from the remote server e.g central-hub 16; wherein further wireless telecommunication means such as the internet, microwaves, radio waves, ground waves etc., may be used to convey the information further. Thus, RFID elements transmitting or receiving radio signals may be configured to work incorporation or in conjunctional with the electrical element 14.

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more RFID elements either via radio waves (propagated) transmitted or (sensed) received via transceivers and or antennas in the same method described above. Preferably, the cleaning device 10 herein may utilize omnidirectional antennas. However, directional antennas may also be applicable. It may therefore be possible to use satellite technology such as the Global Positioning System or GPS and GPS-RFID technology to locate precise positions of the cleaning device 10 within a large open area or within premises; wherein such an embodiment, there is provided satellite signal communication device working between the satellite network and the cleaning device 10 and in conjunction with the electrical element 14. The connection of the satellite network and the cleaning device 10 enables the cleaning device 10 to carry out various other tasks such as; sample frequency collection, identification of the premises location, temperature, humidity levels etc., wherein exchange of such information and transmission of the collected microbial sample data to a central server or central-hub 16 is telemetrically performed and feedback provided. In certain embodiments, the cleaning device may be an autonomous setting. Setting the cleaning device 10, the accuracy of positioning and guidance of the cleaning device 10 from room to room and or premises to premises can be enhanced with waypoint emitters, embedded in the floor surfaces 11, walls and are detectable by the main control unit the (electrical element 14) within the cleaning device 10 via appropriate sensors to enable actuation of the electrical element 14. RFID tag (20) can be embedded or placed on any surface and having a disguised matching with wall colour code so that they can be placed under surfaces of kitchen cutting tables, hotel tables, hotel bed's chassis, hotel bathroom tiles on walls and on floor, on kitchen gas stoves surfaces to ensure they are cleaned every day, on surface's til€s in kitchen, hallway, hospital walls, hotel walls underneath or on sink drying area, in fridge surface or any cleanable surface or place.

RFID tags (20) can be placed over surfaces by sticking or embedded underneath surface 11 so that radio waves can reach them; the radio wave bandwidth can be altered so that the proximity of the cleaning device 10 to where the RFID tag (20) is situated can be configured. Radar and infrared signals may also be used to guide the cleaning device 10 (or lOd on FIG 12) in an autonomous capacity. In certain embodiments of the above aspect, the RFID elements may be used to operate within separate (lone microbial 14a); (such as microbial and substance screening network between a chain of international hotels and a holiday cruise ship liners company. A microbial and substance screening network betwixt a sky scraper building and an underground train station or terminus in a city or town. A microbial and substance screening network betwixt an aircraft cleaning depot and a global ports authority, a train-care depot and an airport immigration and emigrational gateway, microbial screening network between children's animal farms and a children schools) utilizing and or employing the same template or system for microbial and microscopic substance monitoring, analysing and communicating capabilities with the central-hub 16 as described above herein and in this patent disclosure. The microbial and other microscopic substance monitoring subscription services may be subscribed for by clients via quarterly/seasonal or annual renewable contracts, or by pay-as-you-use methods. FIG 10 shows a hand-held cleaning device lOz in the form of a scourer pad or sponge as conventionally used to clean surface 11

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wherein an interface module 8z is provided on the body 12z of the cleaning device lOz so that as it is possible to connect the other cleaning devices 10 and 10a, the same can be done with cleaning device lOz which is to be able to connect the cleaning device lOz to external computer devices such as computers via interface module 8z and send information to the computer telemetrically or by connecting a cable into interface module 8z. The cleaning device lOz model and template according to the sample data digitization central-hub 16 mechanism and feedback information relay back to user of the cleaning device lOz works in the same way as the cleaning device 10 described herein. Information may be sent to and fro between cleaning device lOz and the central-hub 16.

With reference to FIG 12, cleaning device lOd is an example of autonomous cleaning device having the capacity to carry out tasks as carried out by tl.e user controlled cleaning device 10 described herein. Autonomous cleaning device lOd also includes an interface module 8d which resembles interface module 8 of cleaning device 10 as described above. FIG 12a is also an example of a road sweeping lorry having attached to its body 12e an interface module 8e which again all resemble equivalent parts mentioned above.

With reference to FIG 13, there is provided an example showing how digital data sample is collected from various cleaning surfaces by electric device 14 and lone electric device 14a as described above through; gas water sewage network, road sweeping network, teeth cleaning network, surface cleaning devices network and then the information sent in digital form to the central-hub 16 which then provides feedback through the internet, scheduled reports, news via computer, telephone and other electronic media. FIG 13a shows a zoomed-out version of FIG 13 showing different unrelated fields such as the domestic, industrial, gas water and sewerage industries being able to communicate with central hub 16. FIG 13 is a further zoomed-out example of FIG 13a which includes more industries connected to central hub 16.

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With reference to FIG 14 to FIG 22, there is provided a method for representing the sample digitized information above into a computer unit with a display unit showing the detected and identified living or non-living microscopic substances found on surface 11 or in air by plurality of cleaning device 10 or cleaning device 10a (and or any other cleaning devices as described in this patent disclosure) for the application of this method. Thus, a method is provided for graphically representing in computer with display unit microscopic substance objects found in an area of measurement that were detected by means of one or a plurality of any form of surface (11) cleaning devices (10). The method includes processing and storing the measured and or identified microscopic objects by detector (cleaning device 10) with its noted position combining in data groups the data of identified detected microscopic objects that are associated with said detector cleaning device 10, generating coherent data structures from sample digitized data associated with each of the identified detected microscopic objects, storing the coherent data structures associated with detected microscopic objects arranged in a given sequence in a data fonffat suitable for further processing and linking the geological-referenced coherent data structures to the data of an room, building, road, or data of an earth surface (11) image and displaying the earth surface (11) image with the

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geological-referenced coherent data structures on the display unit of the computer unit. With reference to FIG 14 is a front view of a computer screen showing icon shape and arrangement, wherein table A represents the detected substance properties which may include and not limited to file icons which can be further clicked upon to open further files related to the title of the first file icon. Details such as the name of the suspect living or non-living microscopic object identified as icon 30 may be displayed in table A, other details may be whether the microbe has been identified or not, its current activity, class, genus, whether it affects plants or animals, its distribution (epidemic or pandemic status), the full DNA-barcode of suspect microbe, those affected or vulnerable, risks and remedy, its environmental conductivity for example the microbes temperature seasonal adaptability, projection across an area, past spatial projection across an area or region, the microbe's mutation pattern and conducive cell mutation or destruction breakthrough points, detection archive records, preferences, links, and any other relevant information regarding the suspect microbe 30 in table A can be shown herein.

There may also be provided an icon chosen in random to identify the particular microbe so that it is easily visually identifiable from other different microbe objects in a computer display unit. Therefore, different shapes and colours may be used to identify the microbe on the computer display screen. Table B may display location of microbe icon 30 in relation to where it was found by one or more cleaning devices (10), and in relation with geological references which may be and not limited to surfaces (11) of buildings, roads, or any natural or man-made earth surface 11 images. Image on table B may be magnified in the conventional way zooming-in or zooming out is done on a computer display system so that what is further away is magnified or brought close and vice-versa to show wider view of microbe icon 30 dissemination across a region. Details regarding specific industries may therefore be embedded or layered upon geological references, for example, detection location devices installed in letter and postal boxes (see FIG 20, FIG 21 and FIG 22). Table C may display details in relation to the microbe icon picked on table B. Details on table B may therefore include and not limited to visual graphs, pie charts, histograms which may show a variety of different details in relation to the picked microbe icon on table B. Other vital details may include current timelines and archive timelines, microbe count, temperature, can be arranged therein. Table D may display further details in table B and in relation to the microbe icon picked on table B. Details on table B may therefore include and not limited to the daily, hourly, or minute by minute detail of the date of day picked on table C so that a visual graphs, pie charts, histograms which may show a variety of different details in relation to the picked microbe icon on table B. One advantage of this embodiment is that crucial details may be studied and analysed for example factors relating or leading to cell breakthrough (mutations) or cell destruction so that adequate and rapid countermeasures are appropriated. Table E is a key for the representation of microbe icons in relation to their differences so that each microbe or non-microbe is provided a different visual identity. There may be other wide array of details and information provided arranged on the display unit of the computer. Thus, the arrangement provided may be rearranged.

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Therefore with reference to FIG 15 to FIG 15d shows an example for a domestic home cleaning devices (10) network for account holder in 522 Jepson's Drive and showing the details as described above. FIG 15a—b shows surrounding details in regard to the microbe icon, FIG 15c shows further zoomed-out details of the microbe icon in relation to a much wider region. FIG 15d shows the global distribution trends of a chosen microbe. FIG 16 to FIG 16d shows an example for cleaning devices (10) network for restaurant in 366 Rafael's Drive and showing the details as described above. FIG 16a—b shows surrounding details in regard to the microbe icon, FIG 16c showsixirther zoomed-out details of the microbe icon in relation to a much wider region. FIG 16d shows the global distribution trends of a chosen microbe. FIG 16e is an enlargement of FIG 16.FIG 17 to FIG 17d shows an example for cleaning devices (10) network for food processing plant in 555 Vitamin Road and showing the details as described above. FIG 17a—b shows surrounding details in regard to the microbe icon, FIG 17c shows further zoomed-out details of the microbe icon in relation to a much wider region. FIG 17d shows the global distribution trends of a chosen microbe. FIG 18 to FIG 18d shows an example for cleaning devices (10) network for food processing plant in 555 Vitamin Road and showing the details as described above. FIG 18a—b shows surrounding details in regard to the microbe icon, FIG 18c shows further zoomed-out details of the microbe icon in relation to a much wider region. FIG 18d shows the global distribution trends of a chosen microbe.

FIG 19 to FIG 19e shows an example for lone microbe (14a) network for Grace Farm and showing the details as described above. FIG 19 shows some of the areas where the lone microbe 14a may be implemented, for example, a lawn mower which detects (with help of lone microbe 14a) hazardous microbes in grass (e.g bovine tuberculosis spread by badgers burrowed around), or detecting dangerous plants and fungus (e.g ragwort weeds which is fatal to cows) or to detect mysterious diseases arriving into the farm through a carcass of migrating intercontinental flock of birds; and similarly, farm implements such as a tractor, crop planter and crop harvesters may be installed with lone microbial 14a so that soil disease analysis, crop diseases (tubal) and wind carried plant diseases may be detected, identified, monitored and eradicated by the help of the lone microbe 14a. Lone microbe 14a may also be positioned at farm fences, feeding troughs and any suitable monitoring location so as to monitor disease encroachment from wild animals and birds (which may drink or eat from farm feeding troughs) and monitor encroachment of wild animal diseases from neighbouring woods or grasslands. FIG 19a—b shows surrounding details in regard to the microbe icon, FIG 19c—d shows further zoomed-out details of the microbe icon in relation to a much wider region and including other farms associated or neighbouring with Grace Farm. FIG 19e shows the global distribution trends of a chosen microbe. FIG 20, FIG 21 and FIG 22 respectively show lone microbe 14a implemented in different fields; in FIG 21 in the gas pipe networks to detect living or non-living microscopic substances specified or foreign; and in FIG 22, in the mains water pipe networks to detect living or non-living microscopic substances specified or foreign. There can be more networks for other different fields such as the monitoring of microscopic living and or non-living organisms in roads, highways and

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motorways wherein lone microbe 14a devices are planted besides roads and in motorway drain pipes so that chemicals and micro-organisms precipitating from vehicles and lorries are identified and counted. Lone microbe 14a devices may also be planted in the sea surface on anchored floating elements so that information such as an oil leak can be identified and traced. Lone microbe 14a devices may be fixed into planting vehicles in farms, cutting vehicles in golf courses so that information regarding invasive organisms is sent telemetrically from the lone microbe 14a working in farm lawn mowers, tractor harrowing forks (including hand gardening spades, harrows and rakes) and associated attachments (see FIG 19) so that such information is sent to central hub 16 for use according to this patent disclosure. Arboriculture tree surgeons would also benefit from the disclosure of this patent because diseases related to plants and trees can be spread via working tools, therefore the aspect of lone microbe 14a in this patent disclosure may help to identify monitor and trail the pattern of invasive organisms and plant diseases being carried wind and also on the ground. FIG 15b, FIG 16b, FIG 17b and FIG 18b shows examples of how the cleaning device herein can be used as a community microbial watch network made up of different people related to each other through their trades, businesses or neighbourhood. Similarly, people from different parts of the world (e.g twinning cities, towns, villages, horticultural farms etc) can have global microbial watch networks and share their ideas and remedial advises across the internet on the social networking example shown.

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1. A cleaning device comprising;

a microscopic object identifying device,

a telemetric device,

whereby said microscopic object identifying device collects information and said telemetric device transfers said information away from body of said cleaning device.

2. A cleaning device of Claim 1, wherein the microscopic object identifying device and the telemetric device is a modular electrical device or known also as an electrical element which is configured to be removable from the body of the cleaning device by a user and to be reinsert-able by said user into said body of said cleaning device.

3. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein the modular electrical element may include one or more interface units or interface modules attached to the body of cleaning device and configured to provide an interface between an element external to said cleaning device and at least one element attached to said body.

4 A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 3, wherein different interfacing elements with different capacities and different purposes may be used in a single or a standardised format interface module, said interface module can be positioned on the peripheral or exterior surface of the cleaning device, whilst other interface module may be positioned within body of said cleaning device.

5. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 3, wherein interfacing elements may wirelessly or telemetrically provide connection for a one or two-way communication between one or more electrical elements within the cleaning device and one or more computerized electrical element, wherein said computerized electrical element may be computerised, for example a home computer or a remotely located central computer or central-hub.

6. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 3, wherein the cleaning device has means to monitor and detect the quantity of microbial and or non-microbial substances present or absent upon the cleaning surface.

7. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 4, wherein the cleaning device has means to monitor and detect the quantity of microbial and or non-microbial substances present or absent upon ambient air.

8. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 4, wherein the electrical element works or operates in conjunction or incorporation with the cleaning device and possesses means to perform various tasks, said tasks including collecting, identifying and monitoring living and nonliving microscopic substances within different mediums such as liquid and gas, and then digitizing the organic sample before sending the digitised sample via cable or by wireless means to other computerised systems.

9. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 8, wherein the electrical element may be inbuilt within other workings in the body of the cleaning device, said electrical element being permanently fixed and irremovable from said cleaning device.

10. A cleaning device of Claim 4 or Claim 8, wherein the electrical element connected to the interface module may be configured for one or two way communication over a wireless signal.

11. A cleaning device of Claim 4 or Claim 8, wherein the electrical element may be configured for one or two way communication over a wireless signal and network and further to one or more mechanical and or non-mechanical devices to perform predefined tasks within said cleaning device.

12. A cleaning device of Claim 4 or Claim 8, wherein the electrical element may collect an organic sample from a cleaning surface or ambient air, digitizing and process said organic sample, and store the sample.

13. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 12, wherein the electrical element may disseminate digitized sample to other remote computerised systems.

14. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 13, wherein the interface module of the electrical element may further comprise a plurality of interface ports and wireless interface modules or wireless interfacing elements for interfacing said electrical element with active external elements for exchanging operating commands, digital data and other electrical signals.

15. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 14, wherein the interface module may further interface wirelessly with one or more external electrical device that may include, and not limited to; an RFID device, a wireless transceiver device, a hand-held remote control, a satellite network and positioning connection, a personal digital assistants or PDA's, a cellular/mobile phone, a local or remote computer, a modem, a microbial screening device, a portable memory device for exchanging code and or data with said cleaning device and a network interface for interfacing said cleaning device with any computerised/electronic device connected to said network.

16. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 15, wherein the electrical element may be incorporated with one or more devices working together in a single unit, or as a combination of different devices in a single unit, for example, the microbial screening device may work in conjunction with an RFID transceiver device in a single unit, a mobile phone and the microbial screening device, a GPS device*Working together with a microbial screening device and a transceiver device in an all-in-one unit.

17. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 16, wherein the electrical element may be configurable to directly or indirectly communicate with a remote computer system or server whilst being physically connected to the cleaning device herein.

18. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 17, wherein the electrical element may be configurable to communicate directly or indirectly with a remote computer system or server whilst disconnected or not being physically connected to the cleaning device.

19. A cleaning device of Claim 17 or Claim 18, wherein the electrical element may be configurable to communicate directly or indirectly with a remote computer system or server, respectively and or simultaneously whilst disconnected from the cleaning device, and also communicate directly or indirectly with a remote computer system or server respectively and or simultaneously when connected physically to said cleaning device.

20. A cleaning device of Claim 18 or Claim 19, wherein the electrical element may communicate with a remote computer system or server via the cleaning device and said remote computer system or server may communicate with said electrical element.

21. A cleaning device of Claim 19 or Claim 20, wherein communications may be transmitted from various and or different computerised networks to the cleaning device thru interface units and/or wireless interfacing elements.

22. A cleaning device of Claim 20 or Claim 21, wherein information may be sent directly to the display screen on the exterior of the cleaning device or via an indicium such as a recognizable mark or sound alert.

23. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 22, wherein some interface modules may be within the body of the cleaning device, said interface modules configured to receive one or more separate electrical elements configured to be mounted, engaged and disengaged by sliding-in and sliding-out via guide notches or grooves on the housing of said electrical element mating with a 'slotting' aperture on the exterior of said cleaning device, and to then gain secure latching engagement for said electrical element within one or more interface module on said cleaning device.

24. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 23, wherein interface module may be controlled by the main control unit of the cleaning device and can be configured to send or receive information to and from said cleaning device, or said electrical element may be configured to send or receive information from a remote computer or server, or combination of both, via different computerised networks and different telecommunication protocols.

25. A cleaning device of Claim 23 or Claim 24, wherein interface module may act as a docking-station for differently or variously tasked electrical elements that possess a robust standardised housing structure that mate with the 'slotting' aperture on the exterior of the said cleaning device, which leads said electrical element to engagingly connect with said interface module.

26. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 25, wherein electrical element has a microbial screening device, said electrical element comprising said microbial screening device working in incorporation or in conjunction with RFID transceiver device in a single unit.

27. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 26, wherein electrical element comprising the microbial screening device and a modem.

28. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 26, wherein electrical element includes and not limited to cleaning device herein, but may be included in other cleaning devices such as; foot spas to monitor/measure bacterial presence or absence, ambient air temperature and humidity measuring devices, bathtubs, toothbrushes to measure/monitor bacterial count or teeth/gum disease inception, local or remote weather-stations, signal propagating/signal sensing and processing devices, and microbial screening devices that may monitor, mould and fungus, viral and bacterial, pollen and levels thereof, and non-microbial substances like dust, fumes and pollution levels such as nitrous oxides, fibres, humidity, heating ventilation, carbon-monoxide and air conditioning machines, clocks, humidifiers, dehumidifiers to check for odours smoke and soot, desiccant devices or can be the combination or amalgamation of one or more of all the above and not restricted to all the above in one or more electrical device connectable to the docking interface modules.

29. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 28, wherein electrical element may be configured to work or carry out tasks independently so that when said electrical element is disengaged or disconnected from the interface modules or body of the cleaning device may continue to carry out or to perform various tasks independently, such as; taking olfactory/sniffing sample collections and communicating with the remote central-hub, and to then recommence dependent functioning once said electrical element is re-engaged or reconnected back to said interface modules of said cleaning device, which then allows the main control unit of said cleaning device to retake or regain control of said electrical element.

30. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 29, wherein electrical element can be partially or fully controlled by the main control unit that controls the entire cleaning device, said electrical element may also be configured to draw electrical power from the power source of said cleaning device via the interface modules connections, and may possess a self-rechargeable power source such as batteries.

31. A cleaning device of Claim 20 or Claim 29, wherein electrical element may be configured to communicate wirelessly or by using electrical signals for communication with the cleaning device, specifically, without being physically connected to the interface modules of said cleaning device by using any physical or tangible means, but instead, by using said wireless or telemetric interface connection means.

32. A cleaning device of Claim 21 or Claim 29, wherein electrical element may be configured to directly communicate with a remote computer system or server whilst not being physically connected to said cleaning device, said electrical element being configured to work when not physically connected to said cleaning device, or when disconnected from said cleaning device.

33. A cleaning device of Claim 31 or Claim 32, wherein electrical element may be fixedly positioned or 'planted' upon a stationary location such as; on a building ceiling or wall.

34. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 32, wherein electrical element may be a lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device monitoring and detecting microscopic elements and may send digitalised microbial/substance sample data collected from a remote monitoring site to a computer system, said computer system may further process said collected information and send or relay feedback to plurality of remotely placed individual lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device working in numerous remote monitoring sites elsewhere.

35. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 34, wherein the lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device can be configured to process sample data information and to store the sample data information to await manual retrieval or transfer, said manual retrieval of said sample data information may be transferred from said lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device to receiving electronic data receiving device via temporarily connecting a cable between the peripheral ports on said lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device and said electronic data receiving device such as portable hand-held pads, personal digital assistants or PDA's, mobile phones, set-top boxes.

36. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 35, wherein the electrical element and template thereof as implemented in the microbial surface and ambient air screening aspect of the herein may be used to work as part of a 'team', that is as plurality of lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device monitoring and detecting hazardous microscopic substances in a vast array of unrelated fields and backgrounds whilst telemetrically or wirelessly sending and receiving data from the analysis, repository central-hub computer system.

37. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 36, wherein the electrical element can be an independent microscopic substance monitoring device of any shape or structure and can be retrofitted into existing or contemporary prior-art wet and dry cleaning electrical and manual apparatuses, such as vacuum cleaners and bucket and mop cleaning apparatuses, and configured to operate or carry out different diverse related or unrelated microscopic substance monitoring tasks.

38. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 37, wherein the electrical element further comprises and is not limited to the microbial screening device working in the cleaning device and having means to monitor and detect the quantity of microbial substances present or absent upon a cleaning surface and ambient air and may be achieved by having one or more microbial screening device fixed on the body of said cleaning device in order to collect sample from cleaning surface before during, and or after a cleaning cycle by said cleaning device over said cleaning surface.

39. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 38, wherein microbial screening device working within the cleaning device may be automatically actuated to take microbial sample from the cleaning surface and ambient air by sensor elements fixed on said cleaning device and communicating between said microbial screening device in the cleaning device and said

sensor elements placed in strategic places external to the body of the cleaning device, said sensor elements being identity positioning means.

40. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 38, wherein the electrical element is not strictly only containing a single telemetric device and a single microscopic object identifying device housed into a single electrical device/electrical element, but that said electrical element can have a single telemetric device in one electrical element or either that said electrical element can have only a single microscopic object identifying device housed in said electrical element.

41. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 40, wherein the microbial screening device working in the cleaning device has means to process the collected samples against previously collected samples so that said samples are matched to sight discrepancies within the stacking of said samples and an alert or warning message is displayed on a suitable exterior surface of said cleaning device for the user to perform adequate measure.

42. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 41, wherein means to transfer data from the cleaning device to an electronic data receiving device such as a remote computer system, and or vice versa, may be done by using wireless means such as by utilizing radio waves transceivers, said remote computer system may be one or more server or one or more central-hub so that the connectivity between the microbial screening device working within said cleaning device may be via Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), satellite communication networks and Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), for communication between said cleaning device and said remote computer server or said main central-hub.

43. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 42, wherein transferring the digital sample information from the cleaning device to the remote computer system may be performed via removable cable extending from peripheral interface module or port on the surface of said cleaning device and a peripheral interface unit on the computer system, via USB cable, USB mass storage devices commonly known as flash keys or flash pens, SDHC, HDMI, MMC, XD card mass storage devices.

44. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 43, wherein sample data in the computer system may be further interpreted, untangled, analysed/processed and stored said data may then be disseminated to numerous other computer systems for observation in remote other locations via means such as email and various other wireless ways to convey messages.

45. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 44, wherein the system of the electronic data receiving device may include any type of electronically connected group of computers including, PC or desktop computer, personal digital assistants or PDA's, server, portable, hand-held, mobile/cellular phones, set-top, or any other desired type of configuration.

46. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 42, wherein a telemetric communication means includes network variations such as public internet, a secure internet, a private network, a public network, a value added network, an intranet, satellite communication networks, radio waves, microwaves.

47. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 41, wherein processes undergone by each microbial screening devices working within cleaning devices or lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device may be redistributed to one or more microbial screening device, combined together in a single module, or made available in, a shareable dynamic link library connected to the server or central-hub so that plurality of said cleaning devices having said individual microbial screening device may send digitalised microbial sample data collected from remote cleaning surface site to the computer system and said computer system may further process said collected information and send or relay feedback to said plurality of remote individual microbial screening device working in said plurality of said cleaning devices spread apart far and wide in said certain region or around the world.

48. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 37, wherein electrical element has the microbial screening device therein and is a removable, demountable cartridge or cassette approximately the size of, but not necessarily the size of an ordinary mobile or cellular phone, has insertion guide-grooves and or notches on its housing for sliding into alignment with a mating receptacle within the body of the cleaning device so that interface module is provided in an aperture of the body of said cleaning device to mate with said interface module on the cartridge or cassette housing.

49. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 48, wherein alignment and locking of the interface module between the cleaning device and said microbial screening device allows one or more workings of said microbial screening device to be carried out after being secured by a latching mechanism for secure engagement, said latching mechanism can also function to disengage said electrical element housing microbial screening device from the receptacle, thereby allowing removal of said microbial screening device from the body of said cleaning device.

50. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 49, wherein conventional mobile/cellular phone or smart phone may have built-in microbial screening device with capabilities of surface sample and or olfactory sample collection, processing and sample data dissemination to the central-hub herein.

51. A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 50, wherein it may be possible to collect sample data using the general public, by letting the general public take samples using their cellular phones, in rivers, lakes, beaches, hotels, schools, hospitals, taking carbon monoxide levels in cities around the world then said sample data information posted to the central-hub on a website tool that has spatial maps identifying the affected vicinities or regions of concern to be avoided, visited, or evacuated.

52 . A cleaning device of Claim 2 or Claim 38, wherein the cleaning device may have means to actuate the microbial screening device, a preconfigured programs that once commanded by a user to send information to and from said microbial screening device that may include means to actuate or provoke said microbial screening device to collect sample from a cleaning surface and or ambient air and at a specific location during the cleaning operation of said cleaning device, and may be carried out by further including a sensor elements configured to sense conditions and to produce electrical sensor signals in response to sensing said conditions, said electrical sensor signals are reciprocally communicated in a line of

signal between the body of said cleaning device and an external sensing element away from said cleaning device, whenever said cleaning device comes within a certain sensing distance or detection range to sense emitted electrical signals that are either being reflected or absorbed by either one or more of said sensor elements, said sensor elements may further communicate or reflect or absorb said electrical sensor signals to the main control unit within said cleaning device to trigger one or more predefined responses or tasks for said microbial screening device to perform, or otherwise actuate other tasks for other components within the body of said cleaning device to carry out.

53. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 34, wherein the microbial screening device may be in the form of an electronic memory microchip within an electronic system that possesses a sample identification probe- process that uses self-cleaning sensors or probes that receive an organic sample, converts said organic sample into a digital sample signature or code, then matches said digital sample signature with an existing digital sample signature in the database of digitized microbial substances previously stored in the memory of said microbial screening device.

54. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 53, wherein sample is identified from a vast digital memory array in flora and fauna via algorithmic comparative digital sample signature matched by computer processors within the microbial screening device, a resultant comparative differentiation feedback is provided, and said result displayable on a screen on the exterior surface of said cleaning device or said information sent telemetrically to another electronic storage device.

55. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 54, wherein relevant and urgent information to a user of the cleaning device's such as the microbial state, and or other hazardous microscopic substances present or absent in their home or around the vicinity or region, may be sent directly to the display screen on the exterior of said cleaning device for the user to view, once the collected sample is processed within the memory of the cleaning device; an indicium such as a sound or mark may be provided for attention of said user of said cleaning device or said user may receive information from the repository central-hub once the sample is sent to the central-hub by the cleaning device for processing, then said central-hub resending feedback information back said cleaning device display screen for said user's attention in regard to the condition of their surfaces or ambient air.

56. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 55, wherein information may be sent telemetrically or wirelessly via various electronic networks such as thru radio-waves, microwaves, GPS data transmissions, various internet protocols and to the user of the (registered) cleaning device via various telecommunication electronic devices such as phone, fax, SMS, text, pager and email.

57. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 56, wherein at the central-hub, information may be further processed through larger substance sample periodic databases, further relayed and disseminated to relevant overseers in multilingual formats, that may be used for planning, teaching, projecting histograms, trend lines, printing and archival purposes for continuous

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microbial vigilance or surveillance of floor surfaces and relative ambient air surroundings in vast regions and around the world.

58. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 57, wherein sensor elements utilize signal waves, said signal waves utilized are radio waves produced, propagated and received between radio-frequency identification devices or RFID devices, said RFID devices working in conjunction with the microbial screening device working within said cleaning device.

59. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 58, wherein the RFID reader may read RFID tag hidden beneath the surface of a wall, beneath the tiles of a restaurant kitchen floor, toilets, cold room, or wall, door or furniture of premises.

60. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 59, wherein the RFID reader or responder may be embedded inside the body of the cleaning device while the other part or the RFID tag or transponder may be embedded into or on a stationary location such as a door frame in the entrance of separate room or premises or under the floor tiles so that whenever said RFID reader working within the cleaning device comes into proximity range of said RFID tag stationary placed in premises or room being cleaned, the two devices can communicate.

61. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 60, wherein RFID tags or transponders may comprise microchip circuitry attached to antennas, one or more RFID tags containing unique serial numbers and or relevant information such as the room number and size of a premises and use so that said RFID tags can receive from and transmit signals to said RFID readers, whenever the sight of said RFID reader comes within closer than a predetermined frequency range of said RFID tag's territory.

62. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 61, wherein the RFID reader need not be in line of sight with RFID tag to read said RFID tag.

63. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 62, wherein the RFID tag may be placed within the body of the cleaning device whilst the RFID reader is positioned stationary at a certain location such as along a corridor.

64. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 61, wherein RFID readers embedded under premises such as restaurants and airport floors can be verified by a remote person in authority that the surface has been cleaned.

65. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 64, wherein where public health is concerned in restaurants, a food health regulator or the owner of a restaurant can be remotely alerted via his mobile phone whether the restaurant kitchen and lavatories have been cleaned or not according to cleaning plans of a particular schedule.

66. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 65, wherein governmental food health authorities may be able to monitor whether adequate cleaning programmes are adhered to remotely by a vast array of restaurants within a wide region.

67. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 65, wherein replica RFID tags placed around real RFID tags so that it is not possible to avoid cleaning a whole area where said RFID tags are visible.

68. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 67, wherein RFID tags are hidden under wall tiles and floor surfaces and their locations kept as secret so that the entire cleaning surface is adequately cleaned by the user of the cleaning device so as to help keep restaurants and take-aways in a more hygienic state and the periodic information sent telemetrically by individual said cleaning devices via the restaurant-cleaning-devices-network would help to establish the origin or emergence development and trailing of harmful living or non-living microscopic substances before any member of the public is affected by the outcome of such a predicament.

69. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 65, wherein it would also be possible to trail unrelated microbial substances from unrelated backgrounds related to say, a restaurant directly or indirectly, for example, it may be possible to track down suspect microbial substances from the source, for example an abattoir, to via the food manufacturing premises and then to the restaurant or vice-versa.

70. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 69, wherein other fields which can gain from this disclosure include and not limited to animal farms, abattoirs, hospitals, airports, seaports, schools and any other place where multitudes of people dwell and interact.

71. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 61, wherein RFID readers may have the capacity to send information wirelessly or telemetrically to and from a computer server locally located or remotely located.

72. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 71, wherein transceiver elements within the microbial screening device may be configured to send/receive information to and from the remote server utilizing telecommunication means such as the internet, microwaves, radio waves, ground waves.

73 A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 72, wherein RFID devices transmitting or receiving radio signals may be configured to work incorporation or in conjunctional with the microbial screening device whereby the lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device may work in conjunction with said RFID devices communicating information between one or more said RFID devices either via radio waves propagated/transmitted or sensed received via transceivers and or antennas.

74 A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 73, wherein satellite technology such as the Global Positioning System or GPS and GPS-RFID technology can be utilized to locate precise positions of the cleaning device within a large open area or within premises so that there is provided satellite signal communication device working between the satellite network and said cleaning device and in conjunction with the microbial screening device.

75. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 74, wherein connection of the satellite network and the cleaning device enables said cleaning device to carry out various other tasks such as; sample frequency collection, identification of the premises location, temperature, humidity levels so that exchange of such information and transmission of said collected microbial

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sample data to a central server or central-hub is telemetrically performed and feedback provided.

76 A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 74, wherein an autonomous setting, the accuracy of positioning and guidance of the cleaning device from room to room and or premises to premises can be enhanced with waypoint emitters embedded in the floor surfaces, walls and are detectable by the main control unit within said cleaning device via appropriate sensors to enable actuation of the microbial screening device.

77. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 76, wherein radar and infrared signals may also be used to guide the cleaning device in an autonomous capacity.

78. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 73, wherein RFID devices may be used to operate within individual lone microbial/microscopic substance screening devices such as; microbial and substance screening network between a chain of international hotels and a holiday cruise ship liners company; a microbial and substance screening network betwixt a sky scraper building and an underground train station or terminus in a city or town; a microbial and substance screening network betwixt an aircraft cleaning depot and a global ports authority; a train-care depot and an airport immigration and emigrational gateway; a microbial screening network between children's animal farms and a children schools, utilizing and or employing the same template or system for microbial and microscopic substance monitoring, analysing and communicating capabilities with the central-hub.

79. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 78, wherein microbial and other microscopic substance monitoring subscription services may be subscribed for by clients via quarterly/seasonal or annual renewable contracts, or by pay-as-you-use methods.

80. A cleaning device comprising;

a telemetric device working in-conjunction with any cleaning device, said telemetric device having the capability to send information through a computerised network from said cleaning device.

81. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 80, wherein the cleaning device will help the user to monitor the amount of microbial and or non-microbial microscopic substances such as bacteria, fungus, nitrous oxides and pollen present or absent on the surfaces and ambient air in a room or premises being cleaned using any known cleaning device conceivable.

82. A cleaning device of Claim 80 or Claim 81, wherein cleaning device may be in the form of a toothbrush which has a body and interface module which connects said cleaning device in the form of said toothbrush to external computer devices such as computers so that said toothbrush may send information through said computer telemetrically.

83. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 82, wherein toothbrush can be connected via cable into interface module or said toothbrush can communicate with other computerised devices wirelessly.

84. A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 83, wherein information may be sent to and fro between the toothbrush and the central-hub, said central hub may represent the dental surgeon of owner of toothbrush.

85. A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 84, wherein toothbrush manufacturers may want to directly link up with their customers for marketing, product update, new product update, or research purposes.

86. A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 85, wherein the toothbrush may have a camera element.

87 A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 86, wherein the toothbrush may take still images and also video images.

87. A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 87, wherein video and image can be downloaded from the toothbrush and stored into a computer.

88. A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 88, wherein the toothbrush can be connected telemetrically in a network between a dental surgeon and patient network.

89. A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 88, wherein cleaning devices such as the electronic or manual toothbrush, a cleaning toothpick , orthodontic denture fitting and braces may monitor and send information to the dental surgeon telemetrically or may send said information telemetrically to the owner's personal computer.

90. A cleaning device of Claim 82 or Claim 89, wherein the toothbrush can store information in a USB-downloadable memory on said toothbrush so that one end of said toothbrush may be inserted into a computer's USB interface for personal storage of daily, weekly, monthly, dental information.

91. A cleaning device of Claim 80 or Claim 90, wherein information may be used for making progress graphs, water type alerts, alert owner about any dental emissions and diseases at earliest opportunity, monitor enamel density, monitoring whether children are brushing their teeth twice daily,gum health checks and existence or emergence of bad tooth disease such as gingivitis and pyorrhoea including updates of whether the disease is vanishing or exacerbating and reason, monitor presence or absence of biofilm plaque colony, monitor water type and toothpaste type.

92. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 26, wherein RFID tags can be embedded or placed on any surface and having a disguised matching with wall colour code so that said RFID tags can be placed under surfaces of kitchen cutting tables, hotel tables, hotel beds chassis, hotel bathroom tiles on walls and on floor, kitchen gas stoves surfaces to ensure they are cleaned every day, on surface's tiles in kitchen, hallway, hospital walls, airports, seaports, hotel walls underneath or on sink drying area, in fridge surface or any cleanable surface or place.

93. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 80, wherein a hand-held cleaning device may be in the form of a hand-held scourer pad conventionally used to clean surface, said cleaning

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device having interface module provided on the body of the said cleaning device so that it is possible to wirelessly connect computer devices via said interface module and send information telemetrically or by connecting a cable into said interface module.

94. A cleaning device of Claim 81 or Claim 93, wherein a hand-held cleaning device may be in the form of a hand-held sponge pad conventionally used to clean surface, said cleaning device having interface module provided on the body of the said cleaning device so that it is possible to connect computer devices such as computers via said interface module and send information telemetrically or by connecting a cable into said interface module so that gathered information and feedback information may be sent to and fro between said handheld sponge pad cleaning device and the central-hub.

95. A cleaning device of Claim 81 or Claim 93, wherein cleaning device is an autonomous cleaning device having an interface module, said autonomous cleaning device being a truck/lorry or a vacuum cleaner.

96. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 5, wherein digital data sample is collectable from various cleaning surfaces by electric element and lone electric element through; gas water sewage network, road sweeping network, teeth cleaning network, surface cleaning devices network and then said data sample information sent in digital form to the central-hub which then provides feedback through the internet, scheduled reports, news via computer, telephone and other electronic media.

97. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 96, wherein provided a method for representing the sample digitized information into a computer unit with a display unit showing the detected and identified living or non-living microscopic substances found on surface or in air by plurality of cleaning device scattered around vast regions.

98. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 97, wherein a method is provided for graphically representing in computer with display unit microscopic substance objects found in an area of measurement that were detected by means of one or a plurality of any form of surface cleaning devices.

99. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 98, wherein method for graphically representing data in computer includes processing and storing the measured and identified microscopic objects by detector with noted position combining in said data groups, data of identified detected microscopic objects that are associated with said detector cleaning device, generating coherent data structures from sample digitized data associated with each of said identified detected microscopic objects, storing said coherent data structures associated with said detected microscopic objects arranged in a given sequence in a data format suitable for further processing and linking the geological-referenced coherent data structures to the data of an room, building, road, or data of an earth surface image and displaying said earth surface image with the geological-referenced coherent data structures on said display unit/screen of said computer unit.

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100. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 99, wherein computer screen showing icon shape and arrangement of detected substance properties which may include and not limited to file icons which can be further clicked upon to open further files related to the title of the first file icon.

101. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 100, wherein the computer screen can show details such as name of the suspect living or non-living microscopic object identified, and may be displayed in a table on said computer screen, said details may indicate whether said microbe has been identified or not, said details may include and not limited to, microbe's current activity, class, genus, whether said microbe affects plants or animals, said microbe's distribution status, said suspect microbe's full DNA-barcode, vulnerable or affected people, said microbe's risks and remedy, said microbe's temperature seasonal adaptability, said microbe's projection across an area, said microbe's past spatial projection across an area or region, said microbe's mutation pattern and conducive cell mutation pattern(s), said microbe's weaknesses/destruction breakthrough points, said microbe's detection archive records or genealogical records, said microbe's preferences and links, and any other relevant information regarding the suspect microbe can be shown in said table on said computer screen.

102. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 101, wherein provided an icon with unique colour can be chosen in random to identify the particular microbe so that it is easily visually identifiable from other different microbe objects arrayed in a computer screen so that different shapes and colours may be used to identify said microbes on said computer display screen.

103. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 102, wherein tables in computer screen may display location of microbe icon in relation to where said microbe was discovered by one or more cleaning devices and in relation with geological references which may be and not limited to surfaces of buildings, roads, or any natural or man-made surface.

104. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 103, wherein image on tables may be magnified inwards or outwards on a computer display system so that what is further away is magnified or brought closer and vice-versa to show wider view of said microbe icon dissemination across a region,

105 . A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 104, wherein details regarding specific industries may be embedded or layered upon any geological references.

106. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 105, wherein details regarding specific industries may be embedded or layered upon geological references in a computerised network, said industries may include and not limited to mail postal boxes, refuse removal, mains water distribution, restaurants, swimming pools, animal farms, cities, horticultural farms, rivers, lakes, lawn mowers, roads, supermarkets shops and shopping malls, airports, seaports, airfreight industry, farmland's soil, hospitals, shipping industry, bus coach industry, wildlife parks, train industry, fishing industry, haulage vehicles, waste sewerage disposal industries,

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food processing plants, tractors, combined harvester vehicles so that any associated microbes affecting any respective industry/field may be quickly analysed/traced and remedied.

107. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 106, wherein lone microbial/microscopic substance screening device working in a computerised network telemetrically connected to the central-hub may be positioned to work inside mail postal boxes, refuse removal, mains water distribution, restaurants, swimming pools, animal farms, cities, horticultural farms, rivers, lakes, lawn mowers, roads, supermarkets shops and shopping malls, airports, seaports, airfreight industry, farmland's soil, hospitals, grasslands, bush lands, shipping industry, bus coach industry, wildlife parks, train industry, fishing industry, haulage vehicles, waste sewerage disposal industries, animal feeding troughs, human food processing plants, tractors, combined harvester vehicles, dehumidifiers and air-conditioning appliances so that any associated microbes affecting any respective industry/field may be quickly analysed/traced and remedied.

108. A cleaning device of Claim 1 or Claim 104, wherein details on tables may therefore include and not limited to visual graphs, pie charts, histograms which may show a variety of different details in relation to the microbe icon and colour of icon on said table, vital details may include current timelines and archive timelines, microbe count, temperature, said table may display further details in regard to said microbe icon identity.

109. A cleaning device of as described herein with reference to Figures 1-48 of the accompanying drawings.

110. A method for any cleaning device comprising;

providing a microscopic object identifying device,

providing a telemetric device,

111. A method for any cleaning device comprising;

having a telemetric device working in-conjunction with any cleaning device, said telemetric device having the capability to send information through a computerised network from said cleaning device to other computerised devices away from said cleaning device.