LEAD an Industry wIth 0.5 to 1.0 oz
Self-Rinsing SmartHome Technology
Available: Three Issued Patents - Others Pending

Featuring 'IoT' Wireless-Device Interactivity & Control
for Homes and Commercial Installations

Microdroplet-Wetting Magic: It used to be that the 'low-flush' gold standard for urinals was 1 to 1.5 gallon per flush 'gpf' (128-192 oz). Then, improved water-flushing techniques brought water-use per flush rates well into 0.5 gpf range (64 oz), with some newer approaches achieving 1/8th gallon / 16 oz flushing. We felt there was still room for improvement with Flowmist's patented microdroplet-wetting self-rinsing action. So we set about designing, developing and testing our misting-urinal approach which--with final tweaking--yielded two approaches resulting in just 0.5 - 1 oz (1 -2 tablespoons) of water per use-cycle / self-rinsing. Think of a 12 oz can of soda filled with water. Imagine getting 12 to 24 pre-wetting and full use-cycles from just that one 12 oz can.

Why it Works: FlowMist's microdroplet-wetting technique pre-conditions a urinal-receptacle seconds prior to use and throughout each use-cycle. The 'magic' of the micro-droplets is that they predispose the receptacle surface to instantly repell waste liquids and any associated odor, facilitating realtime self-rinsing at record levels of water-saving efficiencies: 0.5 to 1 oz (that's 0.0039 to 0.0078 gpf -- a 16x to 32x improvement over the previous 1/8th (0.125) gpf market leader.

* Based on half-minute average use-cycles

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Toilet Flushing Using Up to 30% of Water in Homes - So the good news is there's a new ultra-low water-usage urinal using just 1 to 2 tablespoons of water per use-cycle. How can it be applied in new ways to make a REALLY BIG difference? We took a close look at the residential sector and here's what we found out. According to a Natural Resources Defense Council report titled 'Energy Down the Drain' --"Toilet flushing represents the largest single use of water inside the home. While older toilets use as much as 6 gallons per flush, federal and state water-efficiency laws now standardize flush volumes at a maximum of 1.6 gallons per foot for all new toilets." What about energy use? Other reports show states allocating up to one-fifth of their electrical energy just on water-related electricity (e.g., supply, conveyance and treatment). Such reports made it clear to us that a new urinal approach, manufactured easily, aesthetically and concealably installable in new homes, or retrofitted in existing homes -- literally could save billions of gallons of water every month. For example, new and existing homes and businesses could flush a FlowMist wall-mount or cabinet 'Seldom Seen' urinal up to 128 to 256 times for every gallon of water used by a low-flush urinal, or over 400+ times relative to the current average water use-rate of toilets in the U.S.

The Genesis of Our Going 'Zero-Footprint' - A really big challenge facing water-usage reduction in residences has been the difficulty in accommodating homes with practical urinal installation or retrofit options. Bathrooms and restrooms are often utilitarian in design -- leaving little or no room to add another plumbing appliance.

Another issue has been a concern that urinals (like most toilets) are not especially attractive to look at. So some of our first design questions were: "How could we use as little space as possible? Could we require no space? How might we provide the cleanest, most aesthetically pleasing solution available? Which lead to $64k question: "Who says toilets (or urinals in our case) always have to be mounted right in plain view?" Careful consideration of each of these questions lead us to our New 'Zero-Footprint' Solutions -- ideally incorporating our patented ultra-low water-usage urinals into existing, newly installable (or into customary) cabinetry of a room. See patent 8,561,219