Intelligent Toilet Management System with Internet of Things Technology

Along with the blooming development and rapid change of Internet of Things technology, implementing its related application in everyday life can improve living quality. When people go out, they usually need to use public toilets. The hygiene would affect experience of people using toilets. To enhance user experience using toilets and reduce waiting time, this study proposes to use Internet of Things to monitor the using status of public toilets for the reference of people using these toilets. Combining Arduino with ultrasonic sensor and button module, it would report the using status of toilets to cloud management system via wireless communication so that users can refer to the provided information including using status and hygiene state of toilets to decide whether they want to go to these toilets. Moreover, the Raspberry Pi system is used to process the information returned by each public toilet, and to enable cleaning personnel to understand the environmental sanitation of the public toilet in order to decide whether to go to clean it.