PPlanter: Rapidly deployable, reconfigurable public urinal and sink
pplanter.com
pplanter.com
http://sf.urbanprototyping.org/projects These are the projects chosen from our Open Call several months ago — they're longer term with bigger budgets.
http://sf.urbanprototyping.org/makeathon/projects These were chosen from our Makeathon a few weeks ago.
It's going to be awesome. If you're in SF this weekend, come down to 5th and Mission and check it out.
If not, prices have risen very steeply since 2007. http://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/boards/topic/2674-str... states:
"The Urilift and associated installation costs amount to £45,000 (broken down as £27,000 for the product and £18,000 for installation). As the structure is made of stainless steel and is very robust its lifetime should be 15-20 years - equating to a cost of only £2,000-3,000 per annum in addressing this serious problem. Maintenance costs are estimated at only £2,000 per annum."
If £27,000 still seems expensive, you must consider that these things stand outside the whole year round, and, given the target audience, probably do not get the best of treatment by their users.
2007 was 5 years ago. Fuel and food costs have both risen sharply since then, as have the costs for just about everything other than labor. So, I wouldn't be surprised.
That way, they are about as dangerous as remotely controlled garage doors.
There are some major efforts around this. eg. bill gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/..., or the toilet masterplan in SF http://toiletproject.org
So in all we can sense:
- number of people that went into the planter (approx)
- amount of pee was collected
- smell levels based on usage/pee levels
there are also some more things related to plant growth.