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So I think everyone else in this
room, oh, this room
looks quite crowded.
I have to say, I totally
expected this to happen
because it's an interesting
topic that can't
calm concerns nearly
every living being with the rest
of tract.
It concerns slot's maybe once
in a week. It may concern you
a bit more often.
And so
there is a secret war zone,
a secret war zone, and every flat
in every household.
But at least two people living in
that house controlling the Tribbett of
the toilet seat and toilet
top. So there are some
people who consider one valid state
and people will consider three ballot
states for this.
And we hope to get some
improvements by technology from those
four years with the Internet of the
toilet toilets, please.
A big round of applause for Tobias.
Thank you, can everybody
here, me on the back on the side,
that good? Yeah, thank you.
Before I start,
you might see
that sign and I want
you to leave the room if you don't
want to hear what I'm going to say.
So I might use some
words that are not
to be streamed into every country.
So just be prepared.
And also, I need a volunteer
because there are some slides
that somebody already
wait.
I would like to read to you to
let you read some of the slides.
So if you're confident with English
speaking and I'm an I'm a German
speaker, by nature,
it's just a sentence.
And yeah,
that would be cool if you could read out
some of the slides and
Alexia Howard will endure
the microphones.
Is there any native English speaker
or anyone who wants to volunteer?
Please give a hand.
There's one, yeah.
You can you can stay where you are,
that's fine,
you can come you can come on
stage if you want, but that's fine.
So that will be.
I wait, that will
be slides by Nibbler,
which is a cat, and
just read them out when they appear.
That's it.
And then I continue and then
it comes back again.
And
do you have a mic already?
OK, we wait.
Take care about and stand by
your present until
she gets the mike.
Thank you.
OK, then I'm going to
start, I will take questions at the
end. So if you have anything to say,
anything to ask, just keep it
and give it to me after.
Let's rush to the slides.
I hope I can manage the time.
Wacom. So this is Internet
of toilets, transgenes
and Attarian territory, and
that's my Twitter handle if you want to
contact me and
some hash tags.
So Internet of Things also
uses Iot, so I
suggest using shit happens.
In addition,
regarding the structure of the talk, I'm
going to present a chronological
list of examples.
It's just a selection that has much more,
but I couldn't fit it in
and those are all first
world problems.
So there are personal
installations, but there are lots of
commercial examples and.
Yeah, it just shows what people have
done that I just go through
without commenting on
them and
yeah, my personal motivation
for this research was
quite similar to what Tony
Fiscalini wrote
in August 2014.
I going to read that out at
the office when Nature cards this and
others Iku both ways and often
snow cover trek to the bathroom area.
The bathrooms are also out
of sight for everyone in the office.
Many times someone would turn
the corner to the bathroom and see that
they are all occupied.
The person now must either
wait around
until the bathroom opens up or go back
to the desk and try later.
Try again later.
I also experienced that
many, many times and was very frustrating
to me and I
couldn't see the bathroom from my desk
and I but
I also saw many colleagues
failing all over the time.
So I decided that's the time to
do some research and find
ways to overcome that.
So the first example
example is a small bathroom,
and this is
was posted as a tutorial by Michael
Japonica and Kristiina,
and I don't have a date for this one, but
it's quite similar to the last
to the motivation I mentioned.
And Michael wrote,
my friend Chris and I, who said in view
of the bathroom, cringe when
seeing failing attempts and people
hoping to relieve themselves.
Why someone? So we
somehow joked that an indicator could
help our coworkers.
So what they did, they
installed an airplane
heads up and an
area of the toilet, a toilet, and
then everyone could see that.
And they also created a Web
application that that shows
the status of
the toilet and their source code.
You can check that out. It's on GitHub.
I just want to keep it short.
But interesting, they found some
results already so they could
calculate it all over time.
And managers don't like that.
And but
they also discovered that there's a
high activity at three a.m.
for what reason?
And they found false positives.
So when somebody shuts the door
but nobody's in,
though, they still have to work on that.
Yeah, they they couldn't find out yet
whether this generates
longer or shorter waiting times.
So that might be coming.
A new blog post, by
the way, or the post.
I've given the words and
try to shorten them to Tiny.
And there's really a lot of information
or the tutorials have steps and they
have codes and everything.
HeartWare.
That's your task task.
Night, perhaps.
Thirty two grams of poop
were deposited by Nibbler,
she weighs a svelte four
point seventy five kilograms.
Nibbler was done in
one hundred and one seconds.
Next up is an installation of
the Amitay that
was created in 2001,
and they have a status
web page which shows all the
vacancies of the bathrooms.
And I contacted
them and Daniel
Tekla wrote me
that no
one knows if it was still working
and how it works.
And every now and then it dies.
But there's actually a
problem with a kitchen site.
So it's marked with a K.
They all have the same time.
So somebody would
have look to look up and
they have Christmas time.
As you can see it, the bathrooms
are quite
free now.
It's like four days old,
the picture.
They also have a laundry survey
which shows the status of the washing
machines and they have
an email service for that.
So I tried that out and got an email when
the washing machine of somebody was done.
You can try that out.
Yeah, there are some pictures.
They sent me some pictures of the
installation. So that's like
the best technology that could get.
And there are some wired cables
and I think the server is pretty up to
date. So if
you're interested in meeting those guys,
they're actually here.
And there's a lightning talk
called secure public key
distribution system.
So
if you want to see them,
I think you can find them.
Breakfast, breakfast,
Pupi Nibbler deposited
forty six grams of pip,
her weight is four point
seventy five kilograms.
Nibbler spent twenty nine seconds
pooping.
Yeah, thank you.
And.
The next example is a gamification
idea, it's called you're
in control of.
It's from 2002
and it's an installation of a
urinal and has an electronics
and microcontroller and
a custom video game, and
the idea is that the user aims
jumping hamsters, hamsters,
and there's a corresponding
panel in the urinal which
targets the hamster.
So you could see the game on the screen
above as far as you could see
on the
picture. And the idea
is that the hamster then when you hit it
turns yellow and gets weaving and spins
around and and you get ten points.
And so that's
the panel and it's inside the urinal.
And then that's a custom
input controller, which is
a rubber a rubber
nozzle attached
with water reservoir.
So you just put it to the to your
body as shown, and then
you're going to play it.
And I mean, it's a game,
but benefits.
So there's improved sanitation.
You are very confident and
doing what you do and
there's proper hydration.
So you go regularly and
maybe there's an increased beverage
that's in the area around where you
can play that.
And for children, you can do potty
training maybe.
And there's entertainment,
so.
Nibbler stood at the edge of the abyss,
but the abyss was silent.
She left after fifty two
seconds to clean herself.
Thank you.
And the Internet Roll Loo Roll
Browser was
opposed, published by Andrew
Cubitt in 2003.
And the idea is to search
the Internet while on the toilet
and so you could
print out web pages and
on your toilet roll.
And actually I could just discover
this picture and
the the text
you see, I couldn't
find out any more.
So if you're interested and want to
see if you can find more, I
found that on on an old website
and Internet archive.
Yeah, let me know.
And Microsoft
also published
the ILU on their website back in 2003
on the 2nd of May,
and there were speculations about whether
Microsoft is going to bid and
ILU, which allow us to
use the toilet and the Internet.
And I want to quote
what what was written down the word
the world's first Internet auto's,
or ILU, complete with broadband access
and the first W-W you see
Windows XP powered computer,
six channels around audio, a
flat screen plasma display,
waterproof wireless keyboard mouse
and.
Amazon UK is negotiating
the toilet paper manufacturers for
special roads with Web addresses,
and it's printed on them.
Yeah, this is another one
from Great Britain and
that's from 2004.
You have to know the museums
are free, have free admission.
And this
was
introduced in 2004.
And so the
science museum in London is a large
building with seven levels and three
million visitors per year, and they
have a high electricity
costs.
And so the museum director,
John Tuka, came up with the idea that
they could actually use what people leave
behind, which is pool, and
so they could put
that into a mini power plant, a
micro bio fuel cell
or something like that and turn it into
electricity.
And so they
they calculated that the excrement
of one hundred thousand visitors
would power up to 500 light
bulbs.
I can't say if this was realized.
I wrote him an email
like half a month ago, but it's still
pending. I didn't get an answer.
Yeah, I don't know.
Anyone knows.
OK.
Did you you know, a Tesla
model S weighs four
hundred and thirty eight times
as much as Nibbler.
Next up, a project by Gregory
Love Story from
2007, and
this is a tutorial posted
on Instructables dot com with
almost 200000 views,
five hundred fifty favorites
and over 300 comments.
He describes how to mount a sing
on top of the water tank of the toilet.
And this allows you to
minimize the water consumption.
So any any time you use the toilet
wash and hopefully.
And then why not using
the water, which you
use for flushing afterwards?
And he said anyone
could build that and they're expensive
what is out there.
But he's tried to build something that
is from parts that can be
recycled.
And so
if you buy this this there's a large
range of models.
And I found stuff for
one hundred and forty bucks up
to up to
one thousand six hundred dollars
for toilet.
Yeah, and people adept the idea,
and I picked some
some of the implementations
from from the comments and they're
really beautiful and
yeah, people came up with different
stuff.
And I am pretty sure
you can do this on
your own.
This time, but there was
no poop forthcoming Nibbler
Weisfelt, four point
eight five kilograms, she
was on the box for 60 seconds.
Um, yeah, this is from
Brazil.
Shit happens similar to the Twitter
attack, if you remember, but
with an H.
And those guys
are, yeah, just
send a message every time
somebody goes to the bathroom and
what they used as a Arduino
board combined
was an infrared proximity sensor
so they could actually see when
somebody is there.
And yeah, it's a
lot to large tutorial.
It has all the code.
And if you're interested, was it
the website?
Did you know, based on
the past day, if Nibbler
lives to be 16 years old,
she'll have spent about 11
days on the litter box over
her lifetime?
Twitcher, this is a project from
March 2009 and
actually shows how you can scale
the idea of Senzo, which I
mentioned before, to multiple starts,
and it's installed
on the Kinan it, which is an Internet
conference in Israel.
Fact of the fact of the day,
if reacted with a.
kiddy poop and converted
to electricity, nibblers,
daily poops could power China
for four hours.
Mike's toilet is from 2009
and less activity is from
2013,
so some of the Twitter accounts I
mentioned are like no
longer used
and Mike was interested in how many
times he's using the toilet
and how many gallons of water he's
using.
And, yeah, there's an installation
online and he
uses ultrasonic sensor,
which is a distance measurement
capability.
So you could actually see if somebody is
standing or sitting and
the whole installation is 30 bucks.
And.
And how
you got that
and yeah, there are some posts of
the Twitter account.
Poop fact, the weight of
nibblers, daily poop output in pinnies
is worth forty eight cents.
The toilet in Toronto, Canada,
as a Twitter account, and
it was created in 2009
and but the last activity
dates back to 2009, I don't know what's
going on there. Actually, the blog
post went offline while I was
researching. So I got some facts like
you can see, but it went
away.
And yeah,
there's a list of Hata where you can see.
So I show you some pictures which I see
before it went online, offline.
So there's a debugging on the left side
and the installation
or the wires.
Yeah, and they have many
ideas for future improvement on their
blog post. I recommend reading that.
It's very interesting.
Just one idea is to put RFID
to identify the person who goes to
poop, waits for no cat
nibbler, completed a nice bowel
movement of thirty four grams.
Her weight is four point
eighty seven kilograms.
Nibbler spent about two minutes
pooping
seabass space station Bowlin.
I guess there are some guys here
and there's an installation
which is they are since 2012
and the hackerspace.
And actually this is a result of
a discussion about a controversial
image on the on the cabin door.
And so
they installed a door switch on the, on
the which you can see the.
And.
So the cable goes to the whole
hackerspace, and that was connected to
an old computer and then there was a
renovation going on these days,
so actually it's not working right now.
And Twitter also changed the API.
So the last activity is back from
2014.
And thanks to UK and Yazbek
for the insights.
Poupart Twenty one
grams of poop were deposited by
Nibbler, she currently weighs
four point eight eight kilograms.
Nibbler spent about half a minute
pupping.
Internet of toilets.
This is a project of Thomas Luka
and a Twitter account as toilet
and this pretty new from 2014
and he got a
broad audience, I guess
there was a coverage on Slashdot.
He was laid off work and then
on the weekend after he was bored
or something, and then he just
put the installation on his toilet,
which tracks the water consumption.
And if
you follow that, you get tweets like that
every day. I got them.
And it just
shows the amount of water.
And it's really interesting.
Cat Facts studies show
that Nibbler puts her own weight
every fifty six days.
Next up, is power rising?
He posted an instruction
which which is
very similar to what Thomas looked at it,
but the idea to fix
the toilet paper
holder, so there's a photocell and
in the spindel and when he takes it off,
they could he could actually see
that
the toilet paper was changed so they
could track that.
And but that's just the beginning.
I really found those comments
very, very interesting.
People posting so
many ideas how to improve that count
to paper slices and measure
the diameter and whatever.
You have to read that.
Clearing the pipes for dinner
nibbler push, but only six
grams came out.
She weighs four point six
eight kilograms for
about half a minute was spent.
Yeah, there are lots of business cases.
And Lunda recently
installed smart loos at
the Heathrow Terminal two.
If you're going to fly around out and
they track you so they
count the number of people to actually
see how much they
are used and then they send alerts to
the cleaning personnel and
so they analyze how often they are used
and then they try to find out if
those in the one corner of the
terminal are used or if they have to
put more or make the signs
better or whatever.
And there's also raises privacy
issues since they track
how long a cleaning person
needs or how long it takes
to go there.
So that's another fact.
And another
example is the baobabs, which runs on
poop, and
it it takes
passengers from Bristol Airport
to the town of Bath and.
And that
generates
the power from Biomet
Mezan and
yeah, the person I knew raised
could help for thirty
seven minutes they calculated
of one person.
Fact of the day, if
reacted with a.
kiddy poop and convert it to electricity,
nibblers, daily poops could power
Canada for thirty nine hours.
Thank you.
So if we are talking about
toilets, we have to talk about the state
of the art.
And this is actually from Japan.
They they have very high technology
toilets.
And I just read
out some of the features they
provide.
So the smell extraction, a blow dryer,
heating, massage options,
water, water, jet adjustments,
automatically opening automatic
flushing, wireless control,
heated seat room heating,
air conditioning.
The option to automatic
automatically shut down the
bidet when somebody gets up
and also to
change the amount of water
which is used to flush if somebody's
sitting or standing.
Another thing to mention is
MEDAKA analyzes, so are
ideas and also some some
prototypes to analyze
what people put into the
toilet so you could analyze
blood sugar and urine,
blood pressure, body fat, viscosity
of dust or blood.
But.
But there are problems with technology,
and I
found one article
of a Japanese leading manufacturer
called Toto, and that was
from 2006, six and seven,
and they had three
times fire in
toilets.
That might be the heating module
and in twenty six
cases smoke emissions.
And so they had to they had to offer
free repair for one hundred eighty
thousand bidets.
And.
And there is still a
very large company worldwide
who it says which its
toilets by the product name Setas,
and there's an Android application
called My Setas, which allows to control
the unit.
But there's a Bluetooth problem
and they hardcoded the pin,
could anyone guess what the pin is?
I think I already heard it.
It's four times zero.
So the scenarios
that come up is what people could
do. They could repeatedly flush
the toilet, raising the water
consumption.
They could raise
like increase the cost.
They could open the lid and close
it.
And then they could
they they could activate the bidet
functions.
The air drive functions,
and yet it
probably causes discomfort or distress
for the user.
Just two examples, but
I'm pretty sure there's more.
Alexis, thank you.
If you want to know more
about Nibblers Nibbler account.
It's a nice idea to follow
and you get all the facts.
And if you're interested,
you can read more.
Let me summarize.
We talked about water consumption.
So when how much how often
the sink under water tank.
We talked about toilet paper usage.
I mentioned
if it's empty, you can
calculate the amount, the replacement
forecast or
you can track the occupancy
if it's taken free even by the time
somebody stays on the toilet.
I didn't talk about audio.
There's somebody who records
the flushing sound with Shazam.
And you
you can do that. But farts
create user profiles.
I didn't.
I didn't talk about the gas analysis
of warnings, ID, automatic
ventilation, and you could
try to neutralize it or burn it.
I talked about comfort, improvements,
customization, ideas.
There are design ideas I didn't mention.
So you could have a flash design
of a tornado, which was mentioned
in the article by the speaker.
And yeah, we heard about
animals
that train toilets.
It's an everyday life, the
airport toilets. I mentioned
that you can generate
power and
medical effects, Hecht's Hecks
security problems.
But I don't
want to go off stage
without mentioning that there is a World
Toilet Day and which is on the
19th of November.
And that's a serious problem
because there are really a
lot of people
without access to toilets.
And yeah,
so what I mentioned the first word
problems, but there are people who really
have problems and
yeah. Now I'm free to take your
questions. Thank you.
That was an enlightening talk.
We are running a bit out of time, though
we may only have time for one
short, very, very pressing
question.
I, I,
I think on the
you on the microphone to read first
to show up. So it's your
chance.
Oh, thank you.
I just wonder if you know about
the research done in the 90s on
the privacy problems concerning
the data
of people linked to the time
they were in the toilet, because some
enterprising people used those
to determine if a woman
going off into the toilet was pregnant
way before maternity
protection kicked in
and so the business
could lead him off.
So there is a lot of problems with the
data. And I just wanted to
remind everybody that it
can be abused quite badly.
Thank you.
I actually didn't find that
one.
With what I read about the
fact that there's actually a lot of
stuff you could analyze from the urine
and
even like frequencies,
yeah, I didn't know this one.
And there's really a lot of this and
I can share what I found.
It's just a selection which fits
in 30 minutes.
I'm very sorry that we can't take
any more questions because we're running
out of time for some very interesting
talk.
But you can contact years later
and please a big round of applause for
Tobias.