We have a variety of sensors taps to suit every washroom. Sensor tap clients often include vets, doctors, dentists, and veterinarians who consider hand hygiene an essential part of their day. This is also true for hotels, restaurants, and other hospitality and catering areas, where sensor taps have clear advantages over manual or press taps. Sensor taps provide many other benefits beyond hygiene. I’ll be discussing some of them in this blog post.
Our goal has always been to help clients conserve water. In fact, we have written before about how important it is to save water. Sensor taps typically include an aerator within the spout that disperses the water. This means that less water is needed to wash them than with traditional taps.
This means that sensors taps typically have a lower flow than traditional hand-operated basin faucet taps. Traditional taps can use as much as 10-15 litres of water each minute. Comparatively, some taps have flow rates as low as 2 litres/minute, up to 70% lower than traditional taps, and our taps use 60% less water.
Sensor taps consume less energy.
We often hear from customers concerned about switching to sensor taps increasing their energy consumption. This is because sensor taps require electricity to operate. But there are more factors that must be taken into account when determining how efficient taps are in terms of energy consumption. While traditional, hand-operated taps aren’t dependent on electricity for operation, other methods of energy efficiency can make them extremely inefficient.
The energy required to select the preferred flow and temperature for each tap that is turned on by a traditional faucet wastes a lot of energy. Sensor taps on the other side allow you to maintain constant water temperatures so that you don’t have to spend energy heating it. Sensor taps are generally more energy-efficient than traditional hand-operated ones.
Sensor taps are cleaner, more efficient and cost-effective.
The flow rate of sensor taps can be predetermined, whereas traditional taps allow users to set their preferred flow rate. This is very inefficient since 99% of users will want the exact same flow. Presetting the flow rate prevents users from choosing a too strong flow rate, which reduces splashing and keeps the bathroom cleaner.
Sensor taps have a higher hygiene standard.
As mentioned above, hygiene is one key benefit of a wall mount sensor faucet. During the hand-washing process, the user doesn’t have to touch any taps with their hands. This allows for cross contamination among users. Miscea products, such as our miscea range, take this even further by allowing hands-free dispensing for soap and other cleaning fluids as part of one hand-washing operation.
Customers are increasingly expecting to see sensor taps within public washrooms.
Hands-free taps are becoming more common in many places. Customers now expect them to be part of high-quality washroom environments. Clear signage is a must if hands-free taps are to be installed in your premises. Modern hands-free taps are intuitive and remove many of those user-error issues that could occur with manually operated taps.