SC Argus™ Pro: Sloan’s Latest Breakthrough in Connected Commercial Restrooms

“I can see the condition of the flushometers and faucets in our Chicago facility from Phoenix.”

Sloan National Sales Manager Gracia Anderson is describing one of the many features of the new Sloan SC Argus™ Pro management system, which allows remote management of commercial restrooms. The system helps facilities keep their entire suite of restroom products operational with less downtime, lower labor costs, and enhanced sustainability and hygiene.

“SC Argus Pro gives you the ability to remotely monitor all the smart devices in your commercial restroom,” Anderson says. “Data is collected in regular intervals and in near-real time, so you see information about your entire facility on a dashboard.”

Here’s a closer look at Sloan’s latest breakthrough in connected commercial restrooms.

See the Status of Every Faucet and Flushometer in Your Building

SC Argus Pro is a suite of smart products, data bridges, and cloud-based software that collects data from a facility’s restrooms through secure wireless protocols. It sends this data to a secure cloud-based server and turns the information into meaningful insights that managers can view on a browser-based dashboard.

In short, it lets you see the status of every smart, connected faucet and flushometer in your building from anywhere in the world with a web connection.

The dashboard can tell you everything you need to know about every smart device, allowing you to:

• Remotely monitor and manage your connected restroom products.
• Understand the overall status of your facility with vital metrics like water usage, battery life and alarms.
• View total activations to know when to schedule maintenance.
• Use notes to document fixture location and maintenance activity.
• Change settings and implement line flushes to clear stagnant water.
• Run diagnostics to obtain product status information in real time.
• Identify which parts are needed for repair and maintenance with built-in product documentation.

SC Argus Pro lets you customize a wide range of settings and set alarms for system activity, battery health, preventative maintenance, and numerous other alerts. Plus, you get deep reporting capabilities that let you create custom water usage reports by location, product type, and time frame, customize toilet and urinal reports to help qualify for rebates, and export all your report data in seconds.

Finally, SC Argus Pro is completely scalable—equally invaluable for a small restaurant or a major international airport.

Labor Savings, Cost Efficiencies, and Increased Customer Satisfaction

Picture a sports arena. It may sit vacant for days, and then host 25,000 fans for a few intense, high-traffic hours before being vacant again. How can facility management most efficiently maintain the restrooms?

“It can be very difficult to get into the restrooms and actually do any maintenance during an event,” says Anderson. “The SC Argus Pro system lets facility maintenance teams flush each toilet and run each faucet to make sure everything’s in working order before an event.”

Most importantly, SC Argus Pro lets you do all of the above remotely, from anywhere. Instead of having staff check every restroom on every level, you can deploy them only where they’re needed, when they’re needed, delivering real-time maintenance to make sure every visitor has a pleasant restroom experience.

Anderson says, “You identify potential issues before they occur, which results in labor savings, cost efficiencies, and increased customer satisfaction. The facilities maintenance team can take their tablet or laptop and see what's going on, versus doing manual diagnostics and hands-on work.”

Greener Practices and Cleaner Restrooms

Remote, near-real time maintenance with SC Argus Pro also contributes to improved sustainability and enhanced hygiene, enabling greener practices and cleaner restrooms.

The system’s reporting capabilities help you reduce water usage and improve sustainability. You can customize reports and optimize your rebate potential by providing data about specific event time frames, sub-metering usage for LEED points, and reclaimed water usage.

SC Argus Pro also helps reduce battery waste. Large facilities typically change the batteries in their restroom fixtures on a prearranged time schedule, rather than testing and replacing each battery as needed. That means they often throw away batteries long before they’re depleted.

But with SC Argus Pro, Anderson points out, “You get the ability to see all of the batteries and run a report on battery usage, so you can see in one quick instance which ones are low. This results in greater sustainability when you’re not throwing batteries away that aren't used completely.”

She also stresses the hygienic advantage of the automatic line flush functionality for faucets which have been inactive. “You’re able to set that so if the faucet hasn't been used for 72 hours the line will refresh, which is really important to keep stagnant water from building up in the lines.”

“Every business wants clean restrooms because it’s a major factor in whether people revisit the establishment,” says Anderson. “So if you get an alert about a spike in usage through this system, you can send the cleaning crew in to take a look.”

SC Argus Pro is a state-of-the-art restroom management system with benefits for facility managers and guests alike. Anderson says, “The results are labor savings, cost efficiencies and increased customer satisfaction, which is vital, because when you're having people come to your facility, you want to make sure their positive experience extends to the restroom.”

Want to learn more ways Sloan Innovations make facility management easier? Contact Sloan.