The humble washroom has quietly gone online. Paper towel dispensers text the cleaners when they run low, lights over each stall show which one is free, sensors sniff for ammonia, and in some cities the whole toilet is a connected kiosk you unlock with your phone. This is an unranked list of 20 real, currently sold smart restroom products for offices, airports, stadiums and public spaces. Filter it by segment or by the maker's home country. Performance figures are the makers' own claims.
Pictured: Tork Vision Cleaning by Essity, from the consumable sensors segment.
Product
Maker
Segment
Country
Launched
Notable feature
Tork Vision Cleaning
Essity (Tork)
Consumable sensors
Sweden
n/a
Dispenser sensors plus people counters; used in 5 of the world's 10 busiest airports
KOLO Smart Monitoring System
GP PRO (Georgia-Pacific)
Consumable sensors
USA
2018
Version 2.0 (2025) claims 99.5% of dispensers always stocked
Connected touch-free soap dispenser; up to 90% less soap used
Butlr Smart Cleaning
Butlr
Occupancy & traffic
USA
2026
Camera-free thermal sensors count restroom visits and door swings
TOTO Connect Public
TOTO
Occupancy & traffic
Japan
2025
Scan a QR code to see live restroom crowding and find a free stall
Toilet People Counting System
SensMax
Occupancy & traffic
Latvia
n/a
Wireless infrared counters at each restroom entrance
GS301 Bathroom Odor Detector
Milesight
Air quality
China
2023
Detects ammonia and hydrogen sulfide; LoRaWAN range up to 15 km
LoRaWAN Toilet Odor Sensor
Daviteq
Air quality
Vietnam
n/a
Measures NH₃ and H₂S; also sold in a Sigfox version
Smart Occupancy Light (Z-LIGHT-W1)
Zurn Elkay
Stall indicators
USA
2021
Thermal sensor turns red/green; no changes to stall hardware
LooLights
WhiffAway Group (with Haltian)
Stall indicators
UK
2021
Green for vacant, red for engaged, blue for accessible cubicles
Tooshlights
Tooshlights
Stall indicators
USA
2014
Smart latch drives the light; one hub runs up to 30 stalls
SC Argus Pro
Sloan
Touchless fixtures
USA
2023
Cloud dashboard for connected faucets, flushometers and bottle fillers
Airblade Wash+Dry
Dyson
Touchless fixtures
UK
2018
Tap and HEPA-filtered hand dryer in one; 14-second dry
Advocate AV-Series
Bradley Corporation
Touchless fixtures
USA
2012
Soap, faucet and hand dryer in one touchless sink unit
EcoPower faucets & flush valves
TOTO
Touchless fixtures
Japan
n/a
Self-powered by a tiny internal water turbine; no batteries
Smiley Terminal
HappyOrNot
Feedback
Finland
n/a
Four-button smiley kiosk; used by about 160 airports
Toilet Feedback System
SensMax
Feedback
Latvia
n/a
Wireless three-button feedback unit; up to 2-year battery
Throne
Throne Labs
Smart public toilets
USA
n/a
Utility-free public restroom with 21 sensors, unlocked by text or app
Somatic
Somatic
Cleaning robots
USA
2020
Robot trained in VR to spray, wipe and dry commercial bathrooms
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Highlights
Consumable sensors
Tork Vision Cleaning
Swedish hygiene giant Essity's Tork brand pioneered the idea of cleaning by data instead of by clock. Internet-connected sensors in soap, towel and tissue dispensers, plus people counters at the door, tell cleaners which restroom needs a refill or a wipe-down and when. Tork estimates that 1.2 billion people passed through buildings using the system in 2024, its tenth year on the market, and that five of the world's ten busiest airports use its technology. Managers surveyed by Tork report 75% fewer complaints and dispensers that are full 99% of the time.[1]
Consumable sensors
GP PRO KOLO Smart Monitoring System
Georgia-Pacific's professional division launched KOLO at the 2018 ISSA Show North America in Dallas, where it won an innovation award. At CES 2019 it teamed up with TOTO to connect toilets and faucets to the same dashboard as the dispensers. A 2.0 version arrived in November 2025 with new hardware and software. GP PRO says it keeps 99.5% of connected dispensers stocked and cuts unnecessary dispenser checks by 95%, in places from stadiums and airports to college campuses.[2]
Consumable sensors
Kimberly-Clark Onvation with SmartFit
Kimberly-Clark Professional first showed its Onvation restroom platform in 2016. In March 2025 it added SmartFit, a small internet-connected sensor that slips inside existing paper towel and bath tissue dispensers instead of replacing them. It uses time-of-flight technology to measure how much paper is left, runs for about two years on a battery, and feeds a mobile app that tells janitorial staff where they're needed most. It won a 2026 IoT Breakthrough Award.[3]
Occupancy & traffic
TOTO Connect Public
Japan's biggest toilet maker launched this service in August 2025 to tackle a familiar problem: long queues for the ladies' room at busy train stations. Visitors scan a QR code at a building's entrance or directory to see a map of its restrooms and how crowded each one is right now, and can filter for features like wheelchair access or a baby seat. A second QR code inside the stall lets people report a toilet that won't flush, and the system can alert staff when a cubicle has been occupied for an unusually long time. It works in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.[4]
Stall indicators
Zurn Smart Occupancy Light
No more peering under doors. Zurn's light mounts above each stall entrance and uses a wireless thermal sensor to glow green when the stall is free and red when it's in use. It needs only a low-voltage power line, with no changes to the stall's locks or latches. Each light also sends occupancy counts to Zurn's plumbSMART portal and app, so custodial teams can plan cleaning around real traffic. Zurn introduced it in 2021 as part of its connected plumbing range.[5]
Touchless fixtures
Sloan SC Argus Pro
Sloan, the American maker of the flush valves found in countless public restrooms, launched SC Argus Pro in fall 2023. The cloud-based system connects Sloan's sensor faucets and flushometers, so facility teams can check water use, spot a failing fixture or change its settings remotely instead of visiting each restroom. In 2026 Sloan expanded it to cover its DropSpot bottle fillers too, all on one dashboard.[6]
Feedback
HappyOrNot Smiley Terminal
You've probably pressed one: four big buttons, from a green smiley to a red frown. The Finnish company's terminals are a common sight outside airport restrooms, where travelers rate cleanliness on their way out. If several unhappy buttons are pressed in a row, a real-time alert can send cleaners to that specific restroom. HappyOrNot counts about 160 airports among its clients and has collected more than two billion responses across all its feedback devices.[7]
Smart public toilets
Throne Labs
Founded in Washington, D.C., in 2020, Throne builds stand-alone public restrooms that don't need a sewer or water hookup. Each unit has running water, a flushing toilet, a baby-changing table and free menstrual products. Users unlock it by text message or app, and 21 sensors track usage and cleanliness and send alerts when water or battery levels run low. In October 2025 the company raised a $15 million Series B, and it is placing 64 units across Los Angeles under a four-year LA Metro contract ahead of the 2028 Olympics.[8]
Cleaning robots
Somatic
This New York startup sends a robot to do one of the least popular jobs in any building: cleaning the bathrooms. Staff show the robot where to spray, wipe, vacuum and dry once in a virtual-reality simulation. After that it navigates with lidar and other sensors, and it can even open doors and ride the elevator between floors. Somatic debuted in 2020 and rents its robots as a service, at about $1,000 a month for a 40-hour week.[9]
Tork Vision Cleaning product page and brochure; Tork's "one billion people" milestone release (Accesswire/3BL Media, CleanLink) and Essity's data-driven cleaning story; Tork People Counter product page.
GP PRO KOLO product page; GP PRO's 2018 "Restroom of the Future" release with TOTO USA (CES 2019); KOLO Smart Monitoring System 2.0 announcement (PR Newswire, November 2025) and coverage by ISSA and Tissue Online North America.
Kimberly-Clark's Onvation SmartFit launch release (PR Newswire, March 4, 2025) and ISSA/Nonwovens Industry coverage; Facility Executive on the original Onvation launch (ISSA/INTERCLEAN 2016); 2026 IoT Breakthrough Award release (GlobeNewswire).
Coverage of the TOTO Connect Public launch (AFP via France 24 and Japan Today, SoraNews24, South China Morning Post, The Japan Times, August 2025).
Zurn Z-LIGHT-W1 Smart Occupancy Light product page, spec sheet and sell sheet; Daily Commercial News on Zurn's 2021 connected-product launch.
Sloan SC Argus Pro product page and its 2026 platform expansion release; Supply House Times and Facility Executive coverage of the 2023 launch.
Throne Labs Series B release (Business Wire, October 2025); City of Long Beach pilot coverage (PublicCEO, May 2025); Washingtonian and Voice of San Diego features.
TechCrunch coverage of Somatic's launch at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI (March 2020); New Atlas, Popular Science, Core77 and CleanLink features on the robot and its pricing.
Table-only entries: Rentokil Initial's Rapid Hygiene range page (Rapid Foam); Milesight GS301 product page, datasheet and user guide (first version dated January 2023); Daviteq LoRaWAN and Sigfox toilet odor sensor product pages; WhiffAway and Haltian's LooLights partnership announcement (December 2021) and VERTECO's LooLights pages; Tooshlights company site and 2014 coverage (CNBC, Texas Public Radio) of its Hollywood Bowl debut.
Table-only entries: Dyson Airblade Wash+Dry product pages and Facility Executive launch coverage (2018); Bradley Corporation Advocate AV-Series pages and its 2012 design awards coverage; TOTO USA's Life Anew NEXT page on EcoPower faucets and flush valves (launch year not confirmed, so listed as n/a); SensMax toilet feedback and people-counting solution pages.
