BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.—iTouchFaucets recently introduced the Smart Faucet that uses Smartphone Touch Technology to help residents and commercial business owners reduce water consumption.
“iTouchFaucets is an innovative approach that consumers are excited to adopt,” says Joanna Boey, National Vice President of iTouchFaucets. “Our state-of-the-art system uses an electronic touchpad that looks like a smartphone to replace faucet handles. It can be a retrofit and attached to most faucet designs for showers, bathtubs, kitchen and bathroom sinks. This touchpad can be placed anywhere convenient to the end users especially for the physically challenged and handicapped and is therefore ADA compliant. It is specifically designed to help reduce water wastage by as much as 90 percent.”
The iTouchFaucets system helps save water in two ways. With four preset temperatures and various timer settings, users can select their water temperature at the touch of a finger, thus reducing water wastage while adjusting water temperature to their desired choice. The preset timer can be programmed from 3 seconds to 30 minutes. It defaults at 3 seconds to help reduce water wastage by up to 80 percent while doing routine chores such as brushing of teeth, washing of face, shaving, dental floss, putting on contact lenses and simply washing of hands. A lot of water is wasted because users tend to invest so much time adjusting the water to the correct temperature, they tend to leave their water running while doing these routine chores to avoid adjusting it repeatedly. Hence, by defaulting at 3 seconds, water supply is cut off to reduce unnecessary water wastage.
Users can save 10 to 12 gallons of water per person per day which amounts to about 4,000 gallons per person per year. The energy savings can be even more when the gas needed for heating water, the electricity needed for pumping and the fuel that airlines, RVs and cruise lines use, are considered.
For showers and bathtubs, the preset timers can be preset at 1 to 5 minutes to prevent overflow of bathtubs and showers and avoid mold issues and high insurance costs. When used in restaurant kitchens, savings can be even more significant. Because U.S. law mandates that kitchen staff scrub their hands for 30 seconds, this means for every 30 seconds saved per hand wash one gallon of water is saved (based on U.S. flow rate of 2 gallons a minute) plus additional gas savings since scrubbing hands with hot water is mandated. When repeated 10 times a day, it can save 10 gallons of water. If an average kitchen has five staff members, this means 50 gallons saved per day or 16,000 gallons saved per year.
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