Water water and water... It´s running out!

Did you know that the average Dane uses 101 liters of water per day!

36% of those liters are used for sanitation and hygiene.

Thats more than 35 liters per day!

Water means energy

We need a more sustainable use of natural resources.
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Did you know that a 6 minute shower at 40 degrees require 1.6 kWh?

Thats a lot of enery and a lot people take showers longer than that!

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Introducing ShowerPower

Making your shower more fluid and the world a wetter place.

The idea is to create change and easy change at that. ShowerPower is enough for anyone who has a smartphone to use.

Our product is not only a catalyst for environmental behavoiur, but also provicdes an incentive for the user to save money!

Making your shower smart.

With a revolutionary technology, ShowerPower helps you manage your water consumption when taking a shower.

A huge part of this is the build-in timer, flowsensor and temperature sensor.

Let the light guide you

PowerShower is easy for anyone to use. Simply use our app and keep an eye on the led lights while in the shower, and make sure you're done before time is up!

A very techy sensor

ShowerPower is no dummy, and we live in the twentyfirst century. So if the time is not up yet you can either press the button manually, or simply walk away and ShowerPower will turn of the water for you.

Do you want to cut down on your water consumption?

Are you a student who wants to cut costs?

Have local authorities mandated restricted water use and make sure that you have enough to go around?

Then ShowerPower is for you!

We have an app!

We know rigth, another app... But this one is so good!

It helps you setup or change your ShowerPower, all you need is the serial number on the back of your unit and then you can pair it with your phone. It is quick and it is easy!
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From this platform you can set time intervals and see how much water you have used!

You have the possibility to chose between either customize or decide pre made setting, such as the lightening, the environmentalist and the polarbear.

You will have a main timer for your shower, and if that ends up running up you have the possiblity to use some extra time, just like a snooze button!
Keep track of it!
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After the shower you can see your logged data from that day, such as used temperature, flowrate, consumption of water and use of energy.

You can see it from one day, but also from the use over a month
Check the app out here!

But ShowerPower did not just appear out of thin air,
this is how we did...

Process

The process was made out of three steps, or sprints. In the first sprint we ensured functionality of the different subsystems. In the second sprint we integrated the subsystems with eachouther and finally in the last and thrid sprint we made some finishing touches.

As a shining light in a dark night to help us in our journey with working agile principles, we have used three elements/method, protomap, lab book and protoplanner, which we used to help us strategize, document and structure our process when exploring prototyping.

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Check out our documentation!

At ShowerPower we are only human, well... except for the actual ShowerPower...

Problems and Limits

There are limits to what we can achieve here at ShowePower.

Making an entirely waterproof system proofed difficult when prototyping with 3d-printed models.

Showers setups can vary greatly and this is difficult to account for when designing a product with the relative limited resources we have.

Furtheremore the mix of electrical components and pressured water also greatly limits the dimensions and principle structure of the product.

Currently the prototype is powered by two different powersupplies because one of the components are powered by a higher voltage than the rest. This requires a connection two a powersocket which would introduce some


Future work and alternative uses

Implementing presets to the system would be great. For example a preset could be "Cold water, long shower". If the user does not mind the temperature but still wants to take a long shower. Different settings like that would make it more easy for the user to use.

More data could also be introduced to the user, for example the amount of CO2 used to heat the water calculated from the flowsensor and temperature sensor.

Making the ShowerPower take up less space by using smaller but more expensive components would also make it more universal in terms of how many showers it fits in.

Fritzing

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Bill Of Materials

Component Information Flow

The Report

Our first video were it works!
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