Systems and Methods For Cleaning and Monitoring Portable Toilets

a portable toilet and monitoring system technology, applied in water installations, building types, constructions, etc., can solve the problems of poor user experience relating to toilet management, poor management of public toilets, poor cleaning effect,

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-07-25
CHEUNG POON TAI
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Managing sanitary conditions of public toilets is a very challenging task.
When a person uses a public toilet and feels that the toilet is unclean, that creates bad user experience relating to management of the toilet.
Therefore, if the toilet is managed by a private entity, such as a restaurant, the user would likely be a customer of the restaurant, and such a user may feel that the restaurant is poorly managed or even worse poorly cleaned.
This poor management style would then have a negative impact on the business of the restaurant.
One problem however is that using a camera to monitor a toilet raises privacy issues.
Furthermore, the camera may not be able to pick up the presence of urine or the high concentration of chemicals associated with urine.

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[0019]Referring now to the FIGURE, a perspective view of an exemplary embodiment of a portable toilet system is shown. A portable toilet 100 is shown. Any portable toilet 100 that is available may be employed by the current invention. Generally, a portable toilet is a simple portable enclosure that has a chemical toilet disposed therein. Portable toilets may also be referred to as ‘p-Pot’, ‘Porta-John’, ‘Port-a-loo’, ‘Porta-Potty’, or ‘Portable Sanitation Unit’. Portable toilets are easily transported to and from various sites. Referring still to the FIGURE, a chemical detector 200 and concentration detector 300 are provided within the confines of the portable toilet 100. The portable toilet's 100 other components include a cleaning device, a container, a rotatable spray nozzle, a locator, an automated door locking device, a processor, and memory.

[0020]Referring still to FIG. 1, the memory comprises instructions that cause the processor to execute a method. The method comprises the ...

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Systems and methods for cleaning and monitoring a portable toilet are provided. The system's components include a chemical detector, a concentration sensor, a cleaning device, a container, a rotatable spray nozzle, a locator, an automated door locking device, a processor, and memory. The memory causes the processor to execute a method which involves detecting and sensing urine and feces concentration levels, and cleaning the areas of highest concentration with chemical neutralizers dispersed by the spray nozzle. Data regarding the sanitary condition and GPS location of the toilet may be sent to servers for remote human monitoring. The door locking device may be triggered if the toilet is found to have harmful levels of chemicals associated with urine and fecal matter.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention is generally related to portable restroom facilities. More specifically, this invention is related to managing sanitary conditions of portable toilets remotely.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Managing sanitary conditions of public toilets is a very challenging task. With a private toilet, management is much easier because the frequency of use is a lot lower than that of a public toilet. The sanitary condition of a toilet creates an impression to the user of the toilet about the cleanliness of the particular establishment in which the toilet is located. When a person uses a public toilet and feels that the toilet is unclean, that creates bad user experience relating to management of the toilet. Therefore, if the toilet is managed by a private entity, such as a restaurant, the user would likely be a customer of the restaurant, and such a user may feel that the restaurant is poorly managed or even worse poorly cleaned. This poor management st...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A47K4/00
CPCE04H1/1216
Inventor CHEUNG, POON TAI
Owner CHEUNG POON TAI
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