Touch technology inside shower cubicle?
Touch technology inside shower cubicle?
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Hello,
Do you know if its possible to have a touch-type panel for buttons inside a shower cubicle control panel.
....i.e. push buttons to select options like start-stop are a nuisance and keep breaking becasue people with soap in their eyes bang the buttons too hard.
--so we want to change to "touch" technology......but how do you do that when the "touch" sensitive interface is going to get sprayed with shower water?
Do you know if its possible to have a touch-type panel for buttons inside a shower cubicle control panel.
....i.e. push buttons to select options like start-stop are a nuisance and keep breaking becasue people with soap in their eyes bang the buttons too hard.
--so we want to change to "touch" technology......but how do you do that when the "touch" sensitive interface is going to get sprayed with shower water?





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The questions above are relevant, but I'll answer from my own experience.
Capacitive touch panels have been around for showers/baths for quite a number of years. I've been considering installing something simple (LED display for temp and a couple of buttons for setting the temp) when I get around to remodeling the master bath. They're reliable and can be made to withstand quite abusive relationships with their owners since they don't have mechanical movements.
Some newer panels are glass touch screens with LCD or OLED displays underneath. These can be made resistant to water drops throwing them off with very little trouble (it's mostly a software issue, actually), so that is certainly an option. At my current contract a group was working on cold samples being put on a warming plate and using a touch-sensitive glass between the two to recognize when a sample was placed in the machine and where. They were having issues with water droplets throwing the whole shebang off, but before I could offer help the project was (temporarily) shelved. But it's quite possible to resolve...
Dan - Owner

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A good example is here, accompanied by signal processing suggestion:
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Benta.
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Those look like standard IR sensors (I'm assuming they are)... if so, you would need one of those sensors for ever "pixel" of touch-sensitive area you wish to detect (and you can't detect from the side, you would need to detect from straight on... not ideal for the intended application unless you only wanted a few buttons).
Dan - Owner

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We've done business with these guys for other reasons but they have this technology as well:
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Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
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The sensors I pointed to are not "standard IR sensors", but emitter and sensor in a package designed to reduce crosstalk specifically for touch buttons.
However, there is a new IR touch sensor available with integrated signal processing and I2C interface, very easy to use: Vishay VCNL4000.
For some reason they are not mentioned on the Vishay website, but I can supply a datasheet if wanted.
Benta.
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Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com
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Harold
SW2010 SP3.0 OPW2010 SP1.0 Win XP Pro 2002 SP3
Dell 690, Xeon 5160 @3.00GHz, 3.25GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX4600
www.lumenflow.com
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