Life Anew NEXT: Smart, Fully Connected Public Restrooms
This year, as TOTO enters the age of the Internet of Things (IoT), the company expands its overarching “Life Anew” global brand message with “Life Anew NEXT,” a new key message that encompasses smart, fully connected bathrooms and enhanced intelligent toilet experiences. Collaborating with innovative companies from leading industries across the globe, TOTO will develop the next generation of IoT-enabled public restrooms and home bathrooms of the future.
Through “Life Anew NEXT” concept videos on display in the residential and commercial sections of its CES 2019 booth, TOTO will explore the company’s expanded vision of consumers’ exciting, enriched experiences with IoT-enabled bathrooms at home or smart, fully connected public restrooms wherever they travel for work or play.
“Life Anew NEXT”: Smart, Fully Connected Public Restrooms
To provide consumers with a consistently clean, comfortable restroom experience no matter where they travel, TOTO has collaborated with GP PRO, a division of Georgia-Pacific and a leading provider of advanced dispensing solutions for commercial facilities.
To deliver this restroom of the future, the companies harnessed GP PRO’s award-winning KOLO Smart Monitoring System, which delivers reliable, customizable and secure monitoring and analysis of connected restroom fixtures to a dashboard that facility managers monitor via tablet or computer. For example, facility managers and their custodial staff will receive real-time updates and alerts on:
- the number of toilet and faucet activations and their water consumption;
- fixture over-utilization and operational abnormalities such as leaks or overflows;
- toilet paper, towel, and soap levels, preventing partial rolls or bottles from being discarded too soon;
- user safety, alerting staff to check ADA stalls; and
- optimized cleaning schedules for volume based cleaning and workforce management.
Facility managers will be able to harness this information to dramatically increase consumers’ satisfaction with their public restroom experience and solve real-world business issues to better manage their work force and make substantial cost savings in their restrooms’ operation.
To its collaboration with GP PRO, TOTO brought its proven smart sensor EcoPower faucets and flush valves, which create their own electricity every time water spins their small internal turbine (no need for hardwiring to a building’s electrical system or for routine disposable battery replacement, which is costly and toxic to the environment). Because TOTO’s EcoPower products generate their own energy, they continue to operate without interruption if the building loses its electricity. If the building’s internet service goes out, they continue to collect data on their usage to be transmitted when the internet connection is restored.
Extremely water efficient, TOTO’s EcoPower faucets flow at 0.09 gallons per 10-second cycle, which is 64% below the 0.25 gallons per-cycle baseline set by the federal government for high-efficiency faucets. Consumers will enjoy their quick, effective rinse. TOTO’s high-efficiency 1.0 or 1.28 gallons per flush (gpf) commercial toilets and high-efficiency 0.5 or 0.125 gpf urinals have been rigorously tested to ensure high-performance and maximum water efficiency when paired with its EcoPower flush valves. TOTO products’ clean, simple design lines enhance the attractiveness of a facility’s connected restrooms.
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