EnOcean self-powered products are chosen by Tencent for IoT Restroom solution
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Co-developed by Yunnan Provincial People’s Government and Tencent, a leading provider of Internet services in China, “Travel in Yunnan” has been officially launched online on June 1st 2018. As an intelligent platform for holistic tourism in Yunnan, the mobile application leverages artificial intelligence and the widespread use of mobile telecommunications to make it a secure, objective and user-friendly app.
Covering all of tourism resources in the 16 cities, autonomous prefectures and 129 counties and districts in Yunnan, the “Travel in Yunnan” app can provide better services for tourists before, during and after their travels in Yunnan. For example, tourists can view the scenery of a tour destination in advance and use e-guide services in scenic spots on the app. Of course, tourists can shop, pay and file complaints immediately via the app, not to mention other functions like trip planning, hotel and ticket booking, reserving parking areas, plats recognition and so on.
Using the “Travel in Yunnan” App tourists see where to find available restrooms at a glance. Thus, there remains more time for Sightseeing.
Practical and user-friendly function
The “Travel in Yunnan” app features a very practical function: restroom finding. This function can help tourists to find the location of the nearest restrooms, and it provides real time information on the restrooms’ environment, the number of available toilets, and waiting time etc. This eliminates time-consuming searches for a free restroom, and helps to improve travel experiences.
The IoT restroom solution developed by Tencent is equipped with various functions, including smart guides, people counting, environmental monitoring, toilet occupancy, emergency assistance, and energy management. IoT products such as self-powered sensors, an emergency call button as well as a multi-functional gateway are supplied by the EnOcean Alliance member WinShine.
Battery-free door contact sensors, that obtain their energy from miniaturized solar cells, report the restrooms’ occupancy. The EnOcean-based sensors can be installed without the need for wires and work mainenance-free.
Efficiency and flexibility of EnOcean-based products
The installation of the wireless sensors will not affect the star-rating of restrooms, because there is no wiring. And the restrooms can be retrofitted fast and easily under normal operation.
Thanks to EnOcean energy harvesting wireless technology, the maintenance effort and cost are also greatly reduced. There is no need to periodically send staff to change batteries for the sensors in widespread restrooms.
What’s more, the EnOcean signal covers a better range compared to 2.4 GHz radio. The connection is very stable even in relatively large restroom with partitions.
Large product ecosystem
Many products from the EnOcean ecosystem could be used in IoT Restrooms, for example, solar-powered door sensors or kinetic-powered slide switches to indicate the occupancy of the toilet, temperature & humidity sensors, and gas sensors to monitor the environment of the restroom, actuators to control lighting, ventilation and water valves, PIR sensors to detect occupancy of the whole restroom, and water sensors to detect water-leakage. All these products can be connected to Tencent and other systems via WinShine’s gateway (EnOcean to 4G/WiFi/NB-IoT).
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