When one lives in a time where we have smart homes, smart phones, smart cars, well what about smart toilets? What's not to love about a toilet that can open and shut the lid for itself, as well as clean your bodily bits? Smart toilets have been used in Japan from the 1980’s and have come leaps and bounds since their inception. If you're looking for a better flush, among other features, or a warm place to rest your bottom, during those cold winter visit to the Lou, then a smart toilet is a product well worth considering. Let's take a look at the benefits when opting for a smart toilet in your bathroom.

TOTO Neorest XH

TOTO is company based in Kitakyushu, Japan, and has on offer one of its most intelligent toilets, the Neorest XH. This smart toilet includes a back rinsing option for male and female and a front hose rinse off for females with a softer pressure system. You have the ability to change the position of the hose to where its best suites you. The seat of the toilet is heated and the water that comes out of the hose is also heated. Living in COVID times, our awareness on spreading and passing germs and bacteria have been heightened more than ever before. The Neorest XH smart toilet has the ability to create a photocatalytic process. Meaning that the toilet is able to disposes of bacterial waste aided by a UV light, once the lid is shut. This beautiful design is modern in taste and will not take away from other bathroom accessories. It is wall hung and has a retail value of $28, 800, for all you big spenders.

 

Duravit SensoWash Plus

Another big hitter in the smart toilet ring, is the SensoWash Plus by Duravit. This toilet brings with it some great features that really do make it a good inclusion in any bathroom. This toilet features a helpful night light providing a safe passage, without having to switch on the lights. The vertical arc in the design of the toilet serves a mechanical purpose. It allows for a more powerful flush when using the toilet, it also has the ability to extract odour from your toilet, it does this by connecting to your pipe in the cistern of the toilet, which in turn removes the odour. It is also a more cost-effective smart toilet, it won’t set you back as much as the TOTO Neorest XH, the price tag on the SensoWash Plus is $9,000. The helpful app that comes with this smart toilet allows you to control your experience and change settings all on your phone and in real time. You can jump from rear wash to lady wash with the press of a button, controlling the strength and pressure off the water.

 

Smart toilets have been great features that can help your overall health, they provide better efficient flushing systems and reduce the risk of overflowing. Although they may come with a hefty price tag, there are many brands that now provide a smart toilet in their product range, so there is something to suite everyone’s individual wants and needs. The biggest advantages that these toilets have over the traditional types is that they are great with their water conservation, ensuring you will pay less in water bills at the end of the month. The age of futuristic technology has truly arrived and smart living and working in our world is expanding at a rapid pace. So too are the things we use on a daily basis like something as simple as our toilets are also moving with the times.