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User
- Provider
- Homeowners
- Hotels
- Dorms
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Energy waste
- Showering drives almost 17% of water use in homes,but 20% of that is wasted.
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shower warm-up waste
- Hot water heater let water heating itself accounts for 17% of total home energy
- Bigger house with longer pipes cause hot water taking longer time to arrive at the shower
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Team Members:
- Linghong Tang
- Xin Su
- Kaiwen Xu
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Causes
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Structural waste
- Turn on the point and need to wait the water approaches bathing temperature.
- High-flow showerhead
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Behavioral waste
- Do not turn off the water when shave or brush teeth in the shower to save time
- Don't have consciousness of saving water
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Bathing use
- Taking a long time shower
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Solutions
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Current solutions
- Many kinds of low-flow showerhead
- Make pipes warmer
- Water saving tips on the website
- Shower Manager:Shower Timer keeps showers short
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Our new solutions
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Smart phone application
- Record how much water you used in the shower
- Setting the water flow by the phone
- Give some advices to save water according to the record
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Sensor in the showerhead
- Calculate water consumption
- Connect with LED light
- Connect with atomization function when used water flow over the setting
- Automatically turn off when people are not around showerhead
- Build-in LED light to remind people water consumption
- Atomization function