SAVORTEX and Pelion team up to make buildings safer with smart sanitization

Their vision is to leverage IoT for significant energy, operational and cost savings and deliver data-driven hand hygiene. They’re currently deploying solutions for customers such as Loreal, Shell, Gemin-i analytics, Gatwick and RBS, who are seeking to tackle hygiene concerns in a post-COVID world.

Revolutionizing the workplace hygiene industry with IoT

The Solution

SAVORTEX’s Smart series connected hand dryers use an eco-friendly digital brush-less motor powered by an electrical current to create air speed, which consumes 3x less energy compared to other dryers. While the dryer is used, data is being captured and fed back in real time, provided by sensors which track from the point of dryer activation until the end user finishes and removes their hands. SAVORTEX’s algorithm calculates the energy usage and footfall into the washroom and uses the data to help building owners set cleaning thresholds in their washrooms. The feedback data enables predictive cleaning, moving away from more outdated cleaning methods.

Transforming waste into revenue, this model helps the landlord to improve their ROI and reduces the payback to 3-6 months, instead of the industry standard 5+ years.

Driving Hygiene Innovation

SAVORTEX are continuing to innovate and are now bringing their award-winning combination of technologies into the recently released product the SAVORTEX Smart hand sanitizer. The Smart Sanitizer is a cellularly connected smart hand sanitizer which offers non-touch liquid dispersal, tracks device usage in real time and has the intelligence to alert building managers if a user does not sanitize their hands, and in extreme cases it can prevent or allow access to a building via RFID, based on usage of the sanitizer. In the post- COVID world, they predict that technology will be critical to address building owners’ and organizations worries about hygiene.

Benefits of Pelion

When originally developing their hand dryer product early in 2013 SAVORTEX found that 3G prices were high and most connectivity options were cost prohibitive. As the product requirements changed and connectivity technology matured, they needed a connectivity platform that was flexible enough to fulfill a variety of use cases. The newest built-in screen model requires larger volumes of data being transferred, with the size of videos being transmitted at approximately 7-15 MB, which made WiFi a more attractive option.

Another area where Pelion provides value is streamlining the deployment process.

Throughput and reliability are also critical considerations for their end users. They’re looking for guaranteed uptime of a device, from not only a customer experience point of view, but also from a revenue perspective. If a device isn’t working, it’s not generating the much- needed data to analyze.

Global Support and Innovative Partnership

SAVORTEX foresee increased market demand post-COVID, which will primarily focus around encouraging optimum hygiene. As they drive to expand and scale out massively, working with a partner like Pelion decreases the likelihood of potential data supply issues. Globally, they’re currently seeing many new opportunities, with partnerships in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Dubai among many others. They have also developed strong links to the US, Europe and Africa. Pelion is the perfect partner to help SAVORTEX deploy their devices with truly global connectivity.