From Innovation to Integration: The Rise of Smart Toilets in China

With the rapid development of science and technology, smart home has gradually become the new favorite of modern life. Smart toilets, as the representative products of smart bathrooms, are gradually gaining favor among consumers with their convenience, comfort, health and humanized design. In the past few years, Chinese bathroom companies have developed rapidly, and smart toilet industry has achieved a gorgeous transformation from foreign-led to domestic breakthroughs.

In the online smart toilet market from January to April 2024, Chinese brands accounted for 72% of sales. Today, Chinese bathrooms have ranked among the world's top in terms of technology level, update and iteration speed. This article will take you to understand the development status of the smart toilet industry, as well as future trends and prospects.

Current Status of Smart Toilet Development: The Market is Growing Steadily

Smart toilets originated in Japan and were originally designed to solve the toilet problems of the elderly and people with limited mobility. With the continuous advancement of technology, smart toilets have become more and more versatile, such as automatic lid opening, seat heating, warm water cleaning, warm air drying, etc. Today, smart toilets have become a standard feature of modern bathrooms and are widely used in homes, hotels, public places and other fields.

At present, the smart toilet industry is in a stage of rapid development. With more and more companies entering this field, the market is becoming increasingly competitive. As the functions of smart toilets are gradually updated, consumers' awareness of smart toilets is also increasing. The market demand is showing a steady growth trend.

Technology Development of Smart Toilet Industry

The overall technological development of the smart toilet industry shows five major trends: Systematization, healthified, aging-friendly, energy-saving and diversification.

Smart Home Suites: The Overall Concept is Further Strengthened

The concept of smart toilets as a single product is being weakened. Smart home suites means that smart toilets can be matched with other bathroom products to form a unified style series, such as the "Elegant Flower" space designed by HEGII for young independent women with middle to high incomes; the "Yue Yufeng" space created for the new middle class born in the 1980s and 1995s; and the "HEGII Starry Sky" space launched for young white-collar workers.

Healthified: Leading Companies have Launched Health Detection Smart Toilets

In addition to antibacterial technologies such as UV disinfection using spray bar technology, antibacterial seat rings, electrolyzed water disinfection and bubble shield antibacterial, the application of health detection technology in smart toilets has also begun to increase. Compared with last year, this year's health detection smart toilets have been favored by more brands. This type of smart toilet can monitor the user's health indicators, such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen, etc., through various sensors and detection technologies and provide corresponding health advice.

Age-friendly: Smart Toilets with Armrests Quickly Enter the Market

On the other hand, Chinese companies are paying more and more attention to the needs of the elderly. For example, a brand has created a welfare smart toilet specifically for the elderly, with a built-in liftable bathroom cabinet, a sitting shower head and a smart toilet with armrests. Compared with health detection smart toilets, the technical barriers of armrests are lower, so more and more brands are participating. In addition, some brands have further innovated on the basis of armrests, adding a "one-button alarm" function, or directly integrating health detection functions. We believe that with the increase in brand investment in the future, the integration of smart toilets and the elderly care industry will become deeper and deeper.

Energy Saving: The Trend of Energy Saving and Water Saving is Obvious

In addition, the energy-saving trend of smart toilets is also quite obvious. In terms of water saving, the flushing technology has been optimized, and the number of Chinese first-class water-efficiency products has increased significantly; in terms of energy saving, the seat temperature has been upgraded from constant temperature to adjustable temperature, and the temperature rises quickly to the preset temperature when the seat is seated, and the energy-saving mode is automatically turned on when no one is seated. This is also in line with the current trend of energy saving and emission reduction.

Diversification: Product Upgrade Directions are Diverse

Smart toilets are the core products of smart bathroom products and are now in a booming stage. One type of brand tends to be "intelligent", such as HEGII's R10 smart toilet. Compared with R9, R10 has added "double 0 pressure", multiple water sources and silent water inlet technology. Among them, multiple water sources refer to the ability to connect to external water sources, such as purified water, saline, cleaning fluid, etc.; another example is the Z90 smart toilet brought by a certain brand, which uses voice technology, five-speed ranging microwaves, and implanted sedentary reminders; in addition, there are also brands that have studied music rhythm toilets that can automatically adjust the amount of water in the spray bar according to the rhythm of the music.

Another type of brand tends to upgrade the toilet in terms of sterilization, flushing force, noise, etc., such as one brand's X90, which focuses on silence and large sewage pipe diameter.

Development Trend of Smart Toilets: Technological Innovation and Improvement Direction

With the increasing demands of consumers for life quality, the market demand for smart toilets will continue to grow.

Humanization is the vane of smart products. The increasingly rational and humanistic consumer psychology, as well as the deep insight and catering of Chinese sanitary ware enterprises to this consumer psychology, are the development goals of Chinese smart sanitary ware enterprises. In addition, as the customization of sanitary ware products becomes a trend, smart toilets will also move towards "customized consumption". Consumers can put forward personalized demands to enterprises (such as medical + cleaning, entertainment + massage), and enterprises will produce corresponding intelligent products according to the personalized needs of consumers.

Products focus on health and environmental protection: Green, healthy and environmental protection is an eternal topic for bathroom products. Chinese smart bathroom manufacturers are investing a lot of R&D, innovation in both technological innovation and product environmental protection. After continuous efforts, many Chinese smart bathroom companies have significantly improved green environmental protection and product energy-saving and water-saving effects.

Humanized user experience: Humanization is the trend of smart products. When smart toilet series products have basic functions such as heating, cleaning, flushing, deodorization and bring a basic experience of safety, comfort and health, consumers will further pursue more functions and designs that can meet humanized needs, such as health care smart toilets and new antibacterial technologies, which are expected to become the functions of smart toilet products in the future.

How to Choose a Smart Toilet

The more functions a smart toilet has, does not necessarily mean it is better. You should choose it according to your actual needs and daily living habits. Commonly used functions include seat heating, warm water washing, warm air drying, one-touch knob, remote control sensing, night lighting, power outage flushing, foot sensing/kicking technology, etc.

When making a choice, a combination of standard and high-end features usually suffices for daily needs.

With the development of the 5G era and the Internet of Things, smart toilets, as representatives of the smart bathroom industry, will lead the entire industry into a new era of intelligence.

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