Bathrooms
Hydrao : innovative & water-saving connected devices Hot water usage in hotels represent substantial costs and an unsuspected ecological impact. A guest spends twice as much time under the shower at a hotel compared to home, and hotels’ water and energy bills represent on average near 30% of their expenses. Hydrao, a French start-up, has thus created connected and innovative water saving solutions to face resource efficiency issues in hotels.
Hotelier & Hospitality Design
Hydrao: preserving water and energy thanks to the digital revolution
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Hydrao provides a set of connected and eco-friendly technological solutions to deal with water and energy efficiency issues in buildings. Under the shower, HYDRAO saves water and educates while staying fun ! Indeed, Hydrao water-saving shower heads have the very peculiar specificity of changing colour upon the volume of water used in real time (green from 0 to 10 litres, blue from 10 to 20 litres, and so on until red!).
This intuitive real-time feedback provided by small colourful LEDs which enlighten thanks to a microturbine (no battery), creates a “nudge” effect which positively incentivises users to reduce their shower time by 15% on average in hotels. Furthermore, HYDRAO shower heads are designed with a low flow (6.6 litres per minute while the standard is about twice much) while maintaining the usual comfort, as their WaterSense label attests it. The pressure is maintained, it’s neither too strong nor too weak, with three types of jet: normal, soft, and massage.
The HYDRAO range consists of a hand shower (Aloé), a rain shower (Yucca) and a head shower for wall bars (Cereus). Hydrao has also designed and developed wireless water network surveillance and monitoring meters, which, as shower heads, contain no battery thanks to a micro-turbine. They can be installed on any hot or cold water circuit. and monitor water volume, temperature and pressure in real-time, with a high data transmission rate (every 60 seconds), in order to get a global understanding of the water consumption in a building and to detect abnormal variations.