MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641041617 A) filed by Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 1, for 'development of a smart lavatory for a preventive healthcare application.'
Inventor(s) include Nithyashree L; Meenaloshni E; Thrisha Sri C; and Vel Vizhi V A.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The environmental sanitation of the public lavatories is faced with problems that may cause an adverse effect on the health and comfort of the users due to bad environmental conditions and the existence of offensive gases. The paper is a Smart Public Toilet Monitoring System, which is based on the IoT, combines health analytics and environmental sensing based on low-cost and energyefficient sensors connected to an ESP32 microcontroller, A pH sensor is also applied in the proposed system to estimate the acidity or alkalinity :of the urine as an initial measure of the healthiness of the user. Also, ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas sensors continuously check the quality of the indoor air to find the unhygienic or even dangerous conditions in the restrooms. The sensor data is manipulated in real-time and shown on an LCD module, and it can provide immediate feedback and a threshold based alert in case abnormal conditions are detected. The experimental outcomes indicate that the system can be trusted when it comes to detecting changes in pH and the amount of gas levels, which proves that the system can be implemented in the public bathrooms and the smart city sanitation systems. The suggested system offers a O scalable and effective hygiene monitoring solution that is cost-effective and theo prospect of the integration with cloud-based analytics, remote monitoring, and automated maintenance systems in the future."
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