The Challenge: Contact-Free Hygiene & Predictive Filter Telemetry
In high-traffic commercial offices and public transport hubs, touchscreens and physical push-buttons present hygiene concerns and suffer mechanical wear. Moreover, water filtration consumables are frequently changed either too early (wasting filter life) or too late (degrading water purity).
Embedded India developed an intelligent contact-free dispensing controller with cloud telemetry.
Hardware Innovation
- Sub-Surface Capacitive Sensing: Custom copper sensor geometry routes through 4mm tempered glass without false triggers from moisture or condensation.
- UV-C LED Lifetime Monitoring: Real-time photodiode feedback ensures bacterial inactivation threshold (254nm emission) is consistently maintained.
- AWS IoT Cloud Telemetry: Pushes volumetric consumption, TDS water purity indices, and pump duty cycles every 60 seconds over TLS-secured MQTT.
Results
- 0 physical buttons: 100% contactless gesture activation.
- 35% reduction in consumable maintenance costs through predictive filter replacement alerts.