Connected faucet systems
AssigneeAS America, Inc.
InventorsClaudia Marcela Jovel, Karl Torres, Stanimir Stoynov
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Abstract
A connected faucet system comprising a plurality of faucets, each faucet associated with a presence sensor, a solenoid valve, a flow meter, and a controller, wherein the presence sensor, the solenoid valve, and the flow meter are in electrical communication with the controller, and a control system comprising the controllers and a computing device, wherein the controllers are configured to communicate with the computing device directly and/or via a gateway, the control system is configured to collect data from the presence sensors and the flow meters, and the control system is configured to determine a status of each faucet based on the data; a control system is configured to initiate an action based on the faucet status.
Claims20
A connected faucet system comprising a plurality of faucets and a control system,
- wherein
- each faucet of the plurality of faucets is associated with a presence sensor, a solenoid valve, a flow meter, and a controller,
- the presence sensor, the solenoid valve, and the flow meter are in electrical communication with the controller,
- the flow meter is positioned upstream of the solenoid valve,
- the control system comprises the controller and a computing device,
- the controllers is configured to communicate with the computing device directly and/or via a gateway,
- the control system is configured to collect data from the presence sensor and the flow meter,
- the control system is configured to determine a status of each faucet based on the data, and
- the control system is configured to monitor the flow meter after the faucet associated with the flow meter and the solenoid valve has been used, and the solenoid valve has been moved from an open position to a closed position, and to recognize a leak event if the flow meter indicates water flow above a threshold rate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.