Klinger
Smart laundry system
2016
This project was developed during the design course at CIDI-UNAM. The aim of the course was to design a domotic system for Steren, a Mexican retailer of electronic products, computing, and technology.
Focusing on Mexican consumers, we identify a market niche regarding home appliances, specifically for doing laundry.
Photo by Charls Darwin | Flickr
In Mexico City, it’s common to hang our clothes outside and let them dry with the sun. Unfortunately, we also have highly unpredictable weather and we’re constantly victims of it. Klinger is designed to simplify this activity.
Klinger is a smart laundry system that helps prevent clothes from being damaged by the sun or getting wet by unexpected rain showers.
It consists of a central hub, a controller, and a clothesline with a retractable waterproof awning. It notifies the user about weather conditions and reacts accordingly.
The clothesline structure has rain, temperature, and sunlight sensors that receive information from the environment and process it through a microcontroller, which then communicates with the central hub via WiFi.
The central hub has a detachable portable remote control. Users can carry it in their pocket while doing other house chores and ensure that clothes will be protected.
