Improve Health & Hygiene with a Smart Bathroom

For businesses, hygienic spaces help ensure the health and wellbeing of employees and customers and entice visitors to return and use their facilities. No part of a building is more important to hygiene than the bathroom, so architects, property owners and facility managers are under pressure to identify solutions that will help keep these spaces safe and clean. Fortunately, a new generation of intelligent bathroom technologies and datadriven management solutions are available to help facility managers deliver a more hygienic bathroom experience.

Smart Sanitation: How Intelligent Bathrooms Can Deliver Better Hygiene Outcomes in the Post-Covid World takes a close look at the emerging category of intelligent bathroom solutions and how they can help facility managers harness the power of data to boost hygiene compliance and deliver enhanced levels of efficiency in bathroom management.

We look at the factors forcing us to rethink conventional bathroom design in the postCovid world. The coronavirus pandemic exposed fundamental flaws in the design of public toilets, contributing to greater scrutiny over how they are managed.

An unclean bathroom in a shared facility contributes to a poor user experience, which can in turn lead to negative impacts on health and productivity, and increased tenant turnover.

We discuss how smart bathroom technology and real-time fixture usage data can help facility managers make smarter decisions that directly impact hygiene and cleanliness. A ‘smart’ or ‘intelligent’ bathroom is one that is both technology enabled and data driven. A key feature of a smart bathroom is connected bathroom fixtures. Smart tapware, urinals, toilets, showers and leak detection valves integrate seamlessly with cloud-based platforms, providing records of usage (e.g. individual fixture usage, activations and water consumption). Facility managers can access this data using mobile or web-based software, allowing them to monitor the state of their bathrooms without being on-site.

You cannot improve something without measuring it. With real-time fixture usage data, facility managers can monitor hygiene levels, unobtrusively observe bathroom behaviours and correct them through targeted education campaigns, measure the success of new hygiene solutions, and take a proactive approach to cleaning and maintenance.

Caroma Smart Command® is an ecosystem of intelligent bathroom products that enable building managers to monitor fixture use in real-time and make smarter decisions that reduce maintenance costs, while improving hygiene and uptime. An innovative range of tapware, urinals, toilets, showers, and leak detection valves integrate seamlessly with Caroma Smart Command and incorporate touch-free technology for a more efficient bathroom.

Every Caroma Smart Command fixture tracks activation data, which when coupled with flow rates and flush volume calculations, provides water consumption patterns from bathroom fixtures on the Caroma Smart Command Cloud. Data can enable quick identification of behavioural trends which if addressed could result in water savings, or help identify when a fixture may require maintenance based off number of activations, or it can inform on how hygienic a given bathroom is through cross-referencing sanitaryware activations with tapware usage.

Master at work: Defying conventions of bathroom design with Vio Marchidan

Chemist by education, master tiler by trade and a revolutionary innovator by nature, Vio Marchidan possesses not only an intimate knowledge of the industry, but also a life-long passion to change it for the better.

With over 30 years in building and construction – and roughly half of them keenly spent on the tools – Vio’s competence, talent and highly ethical approach to his trade have established him as one of the most respected figures in the tiling sector.

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Already emblematic of modern sophistication and outstanding design flexibility, the innovative aluminium tiling trim solution helps architects and designers create distinct, award-winning interiors while introducing significant efficiency in the construction process. Invented by Vio Marchidan, MeTrim has been engineered to visually amplify smaller bathroom spaces and add a modern edge to both door and window openings while protecting the tiles from damage.

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