Futuristic Technologies for Smart Toilets in Smart Cities

Abstract

Public Toilets have always been a topic of concern. In this innovative world, where all the countries are advancing in their developments and making smart cities, yet the cleanliness and hygiene in our nation is under threat. The public toilets have been established in many parts of the country but they are not maintained well. Due to ill maintenance, the air in the toilets and the surrounding area is not clean and there is bad odor. Hence even though there are many toilets, people do not use the toilets and prefer to excrete in the open environment or near the rivers. Consequently, this causes pollution in our country and spreads more diseases to the living beings. In this paper, new innovative technologies that have been implemented in making of automatic and smart toilets have been discussed. This paper also considers energy conservation techniques that can be used in smart toilets.

Where's the bathroom in this “mobile home”? Adding Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH) infrastructure to agendas on homelessness and digital media

“…Despite a general gap in acknowledging unhoused people as potential beneficiaries of smart city planning (and the discrimination that can seem to be built into smart city agendas), there are some planners who have worked to develop smart city technologies that might aid those living on the streets or in temporary housing, including innovations for building and maintaining clean, safe public toilets (e.g., Asnodkar et al, 2020;Gassmann et al, 2019;Jing & Hongyan, 2019). And yet, just as (or more) often, technologies are used to surveil and/or protect certain spaces from use by unhoused people -even those spaces designed with unhoused people in mind.…”

“…Homelessness is a pressing issue in Denver. Although around 6900 unhoused individuals were counted in the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative's 2022 “Point-in-Time” count, with nearly one-third of those people found to be sleeping unsheltered on the streets (Metro Denver Homeless Initiative, 2022), most advocates agree that number vastly understates the problem (e.g., “Snapshot,” 2022). Data gathered by the Homeless Management Information System, which draws from information shared by shelters and other service providers, shows that 32,233 people tapped into homelessness-related support during the one-year period from July 1, 2020 to 2021 (see Rubino, 2022).…”