CessLight: The first Bathroom Traffic Lights ever built (at least by me)
Now with Odor Control
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| Sorry for the orrendous photo. It's the first time I shoot an electronic circuit. |
What is CessLight?
CessLight is a bathroom (water closet room) traffic lights equipment.
It signals when the bathroom is engaged and when it is free. Ok, this is pretty obvious.
What is specially suited for?
It has been specifically designed to be used in a workplace, especially if the work is carried through computers.
In fact, it supports three restrooms (the common entry room, with a sink and a mirror, the man's toilet and the woman's toilet).
It can send such information to all PCs in the workplace, so that you can know when it is time to go to the toilet without moving your eyes from your work.
What is specially suited for?
It has been specifically designed to be used in a workplace, especially if the work is carried through computers.
In fact, it supports three restrooms (the common entry room, with a sink and a mirror, the man's toilet and the woman's toilet).
It can send such information to all PCs in the workplace, so that you can know when it is time to go to the toilet without moving your eyes from your work.
Why this name?
Cess from Italian word "cesso" (colloquial), that means both bathroom and water closet.
Light from "traffic lights". Don't know why ;-)
What makes CessLight different from any other similar product (at least the ones I know)?
Light from "traffic lights". Don't know why ;-)
What makes CessLight different from any other similar product (at least the ones I know)?
- It has three red lights.
Ok, this is very specific to my restroom: it is compound by a central room with a sink that allows entry in two lateral rooms (man WC room and woman one). Each red light signals that the corresponding room is engaged. The lateral rooms have an opening in the upper area of the walls so that air can flow from them to common room. So standing in the common room while someone is in a lateral room tamper that man's privacy (odors, noises, etc).
So you can decide to enter the central room if you are a man and there is a man in its lateral room but not if there is a woman. Well, sort of.
- It has a green light that is on only when all the three rooms are free:
Frew way! - Last light but not least, it has a yellow light for "hazardous gases" alarm!
The idea is to signal when the air in the restroom smell likes fresh roses or...rotten roses :-o
- It sends updates of its status to PC clients via Ethernet connection.
Why? So we don't have to raise our eyes from our computer or turn the head to look backward (for those who have CessLight behind them).
- It is built upon Arduino.
And this is really geeky, at the moment...
That's all for now. More about it later. Stay tuned!
