The company’s IoT-connected drinking water platform and mobile app are demonstrated at this week’s CES 2020
Silicon Valley-incubated FloWater is another step closer to supporting the growing numbers of consumers looking to minimise the use of plastic water bottle. Attendees at CES this year will get a glimpse at a “smarter”, Internet of Things (IoT)-connected drinking water platform. FloWater, markers of new-tech water refill stations, will unveil a development project for a cloud-connected, “smart” water Refill Station and mobile app, powered by Microsoft’s Azure Sphere.
FloWater’s development of an IoT mobile app works alongside its “smart” water Refill Station, providing consumers with an end-to-end, plastic-fee drinking water experience. They can now find the nearest FloWater Refill Station, track their hydration and get hydration reminders. This IoT mobile app is designed to encourage consumers to track their environmental impact by displaying how many plastic water bottles they have saved, and for sharing this data on social media.
Since the company’s launch in 2013, FloWater Refill Stations have saved over 170 million plastic water bottles from entering the environment, and is on target to hit one billion by 2022.
As part of its “Tech for a Better World” family of products, Sichuan Changhong Electric has designed and will manufacture a custom Microcontroller Unit (MCU) that will be integrated into FloWater’s advanced Refill Station technology, which eliminates the contaminants that can be found in tap water and delivers drinking water that dispenses into any size reusable container, eliminating the plastic waste and toxicity caused by single-use plastic water bottles.
Rich Razgaitis, CEO and co-found of FloWater, concluded: “We are honoured to team up with Microsoft and Changhong at CES in our development of this entirely new, cloud-based drinking water platform for consumers and enterprise. Soon, on a massive sale, we will satisfy the mega-consumer trend away from plastic waste by making it easier than ever before to access great-tasting, safer and plastic-free drinking water wherever people work, rest and play.”
