Smart Washrooms

Washrooms are a critical part of every organisation, they are important for avoiding sanitary and safety related issue (especially in public areas) but also they speak volumes about your business and its procedures and care. With this in mind the opportunity to better understand the use of them, automate tasks that could remove costly labour (and compliance risks if forgotten) and to eliminate waste should not be missed.

Truly smart washrooms can be driven by data to create sustainable environments and higher levels of service whilst driving down costs to provide good ROI for any capital investment.

Areas that can be improved

Water monitoring - using smart assets and sensors can have a dramatic improvement on your washrooms by

Automating legionella monitoring to ensure compliance but also to remove costly and wasteful duplication of flush events (where it is not known when they last occurred). Understanding where flush events occur naturally by users can remove thousands of duplicated events and water waste over time (up to 80% less). It also removes extensive labour for checks and manual water temperature checks. Our solution can undertake a true end-to-end service without human intervention and provides data and dashboards for full compliance. Automated water temperature collection also gives early warning alerts of cold water showers or could shut off to avoid scalding too.
Waste bin levels can be monitored automatically reducing labour, increasing service levels and also providing valuable data to understand use (seasonal, day vs night etc) and create proactive cleaning regimes.
Smart Assets such as hand dryers, taps or showers can be monitored for in-service, use and for taps, things like on time could drive down waste over time while helping with proactive maintenance and product life prediction.

Leak detection could give important alerts for floods or blockages.
Smart lighting can be programmed to eliminate wasted energy and provide data for maintenance and change out for end of life.
People counting devices (non vision type) could help gyms or schools etc understand the use of busy changing rooms, highlighting only the areas that have had occupancy (for regular cleaning) rather than the operative cleaning all areas regardless of use.
Air Quality Monitoring is much easier with smart assets allowing for instant alerts and automations when poor air quality or environmental conditions are apparent. Ventilation could be engaged only when needed and in line with the conditions, saving money and prolonging the service life of the equipment. If you are using scent services they too can be deployed using intelligence and live data rather than guesswork and chance.
With all of our smart tools and software organisations can predict, see patterns and create tailored regimes that fit the use perfectly. Users will have better experiences using the facility and Facilities Managers can more easily prepare consumable orders and schedule maintenance.
Virtual assets such as consumables could be measured via use to better understand use and stock levels required, saving space.

All of the above could have a huge affect on the way users view your business. If you are a gym chain it could help you keep customers by ensuring hot showers, if you are a transport hub it could enhance their opinion of your service with clean facilities and functioning hand dryers. Most importantly though it will ensure time stamped, data backed compliance whilst saving labour and money in the process. The smart washroom is here and will pay for itself in savings and improved compliance in a very short period.

Finally, it totally removes the risk of safety critical checks not being undertaken (temperature measurements or vital flush events) that could cause fatal issues such as legionella. Full control is in your hands (in your dashboard) and all stakeholders within a business can have bespoke dashboards to determine what is important or relevant to them and their role in the organisation.

Save money, save the planet.