Intelligent Public Toilet Monitoring System Using IoT

In most Indian villages and slums, public sanitation remains woefully inadequate, with rampant public urination and open defecation due to public toilets being dirty, too few, or poorly maintained. The authorities expend a huge amount of money and manpower to maintain these public toilets. Nevertheless, all these efforts go in vain as there does not exist a centralized system to monitor the cleanliness of the public toilets, track the quality of cleaning by cleaners. In accordance with this, a system that provides centralized monitoring of all the toilets and provides an interface to the cleaner will be helpful in solving this problem. This paper aims to present an intuitive toilet monitoring system that leverages IoT and Machine Learning. The system incorporates use of various IoT devices, a web server, and a mobile application for the cleaner. The system provides the toilet cleaner and admin with the ability to monitor various cleanliness parameters as well as visualize the future state of the toilet based on past data.