IOT Redefines Smart Sanitation

Gandhi said Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Modi said let’s have a Swachh Bharat. IoT technologies are gradually bringing swachh Godliness to the future smart cities.

- Anushruti Singh

Just digest these facts:

• $54bn Indian GDP is lost every year due to lack of sanitation

• 200,000 deaths every year owing to basically lack of toilets and poor awareness of personal feminine hygiene

• 18% of Indian households still lack toilets

• 12% of Indian population still defecate in the open

• 40% of toilets in Indian schools are in various states of disrepair (either no water or no doors)

• 60% dropouts amongst girls once they reach puberty (no toilet doors and no provision in schools to change sanitary pads) 

Looking at those facts, it will definitely occur to you; are we living in a hell? Sanitation is the basic necessity and yes, transition is happening in developing India to achieve smart, sustainable sanitation for all and with this various business models with the help of IoT have emerged. Especially various SMBs are quite fanatic, and working on digitization of sanitation. Infact, government too is encouraging digital industry to develop and adopt. In turn they ought to give society lower cost devices for better tomorrow.