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eToilet manufacturer ties up with IISc
Thursday October 11, 2012 06:06:34 PM,
IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: Eram Scientific, which manufactures "eToilet", has entered into an
agreement with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
for conducting further research and development of their unique
product, the company said here Thursday.
This unique product has been developed by city-based Eram
Scientific Solutions (P) Ltd. It is part of the Eram Group, which
has operational presence in India, the Middle East and southeast
Asia.
The company has already successfully installed over 600 "eToilets"
across Kerala and the country and in the coming three months
another 300 "eToilets" will be installed.
Siddeek Ahmed, CMD of Eram ITL group said they have already
submitted its plans to the state government for a web-mobile
technology-based control for sanitizing the state.
"Besides the latest tie-up with IISc, we have also established
productive tie-ups with the National Institute of Design, the
London School of Economics and other institutions for achieving
the total sanitation vision," said Ahmed.
Recently, they were awarded the "reinvent the toilet challenge"
grant worth Rs.3 crore from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
for conducting research on maintaining toilet cleanliness,
non-depletion of water resources and energy conserving solutions.
The "eToilet" is a convergence of web-mobile-electronics
technologies and has an automated door opening, power flushing,
automatic closet washing and sterilization, and automatic platform
cleaning mechanism, all backed by SMS alerts to inform the control
room about the status of water tank and bio-gas plant in the event
of any errors or failures.
The price of an "eToilet" varies from Rs.350,000 to Rs.850,000
(inclusive of bio-membrane reactor's price).
Bio-membrane reactor is a nano-technology aided device that
instantly recycles the used water and makes it ready for future
use.
The "eToilet" occupies around 20 square feet of space and has two
doors - a sliding door at the front, and a normal door ahead of
the toilet.
As soon as the coin (entry charge) is dropped, the sliding door
opens, the light comes on and the exhaust fan starts. Inside the
toilet there is a bucket, mug and other necessary items. In case
the user does not flush the toilet after use, the system
automatically does all the cleaning operations.
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