Kohler's smart toilet brings voice assistant into bathrooms

Coler Unveils Advanced Smart Home Products at CES

I'm here at the Coler booth at CES where we're talking with Jonathan from the Coler smart home team. Coler's got a lot of interesting stuff going on here, so we're going to let Jonathan talk a little bit more about some of the products.

Jonathan: Yeah, so welcome to the Cor Booth. We're unveiling our core connect portfolio, it's our second year at the show, and we're excited to showcase our new Numi 2.0, Tilegen, and toilet. So, it's a progression of our intelligent toilet offering, lots of great features baked right into the toilet. It has Dynamic Sound, Dynamic lighting, we've also gone a step further and actually integrated Amazon Alexa, now consumers have that experience built right into their toilet.

The toilet is a beautiful product, with an entire portfolio focused on three things: convenience, comfort, and cleanliness. Convenience perspective, nice warm toilet seat, it actually Auto opens, Auto closes, auto flushes. And then, talking about our Bedet functionality, which also touches the experience in the bathroom. The toilet automatically opens as you approach it, with a proximity sensor that knows when you've left the room, and will auto close as well.

But that's not all; we have an Alexa speaker built into the toilet, so whatever you could do with Alexa in your home, you can now do with your toilet, actually, in the bathroom space. It's a great place to use that information download, whether it's news, traffic, sports scores, or even playing music to set the scene. Imagine being able to speak to Alexa while being in the bathroom in the morning.

Jonathan: So, yeah, we showcased our Vadera Mir last year with Amazon Alexa actually built-in that product shipping, so we're excited about that and are showcasing now a Google version of that, so we're giving consumers that flexibility if they want to have Amazon or if they want to have Google in their home. All that technology is also integrated into the Mirr for You as well.

We're also excited still about our Perfect Fill bath tub, which we showed last year but now are showing again in a more flexible environment for our consumers, so give them a modular experience where they can choose a different bathtub or a different bath filler.

Jonathan: So, it's actually a perfect fill kit, so it includes the spout, includes the drain, and then all the controllers behind the wall. What it does is, it allows consumers to preset the depth of water that they want and then also the temperature that they want, so they can use Amazon Alexa while they're downstairs with their kids, and say "Start my bath" 20 minutes later. You walk upstairs, and it's the right depth and it's the right temperature for you.

The market's ready for this technology in the bathroom. We actually already know that 80% of consumers bring a phone or tablet into the bathroom so they're already using technology. And we also know that 13% already used some Voice Assistant to do something, so consumers are ready for this.

Jonathan: Now, let's talk about our smart lighting. We have lighting actually integrated into our Vadera Mir, and also a full collection this year called Veil lighted collection, which includes four products: Free standing bath, an intelligent toilet to toilet, a mirror, and then a three-piece vanity. Those products all work together from a design perspective, so Coler's design heritage and technology points across all those products interact together to mimic nature.

In the Suites that you see throughout our booth, consumers can see how these products would interact together in an environment and build different routines.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm here at the Coler booth at CES where we're talking with Jonathan from the Coler smart home team coler's got a lot of interesting stuff going on here so we're going to let Jonathan talk a little bit more about some of the products Jonathan what are we unveiling here at CES yeah so welcome to the cor Booth we're unveiling our core connect portfolio it's our second year at the show we're excited to showcase our new numei 2.0 teligent and toilet so it's a progression of our intelligent toilet offering lots of great features baked right into the toilet so it has Dynamic Sound Dynamic lighting we've also gone a step further and actually integrated Amazon Alexa so now consumers have that experience built right into their toilet can you tell me a little bit more about the toilet like that is beautiful yeah so our entire intelligent toilet portfolio actually focuses on three things so convenience comfort and cleanliness so Comfort perspective nice warm toilet seat convenience it actually Auto opens Auto closes auto flushes and and then um cleanliness right talking about our bedet functionality then also that touches experience in the bathroom so then how does it automatically open and close so there's a proximity sensor so actually as you approach it it'll Auto open and then it knows when you've actually left the room and it'll that autoc close feature as well wow and I understand it has an an Alexa speaker built into it can you like what does that mean for people who might not know what that is so we have an Alexa fully integrated so ABS is built right into the product so whatever you could do with Alexa in your home you can now do with your toilet actually in the bathroom space so we know consumers start their morning in the bathroom and they also end their day in the bathroom so it's a great place to that information download whether it's News traffic the sports score my whatever you want or even playing your music to set the scene wow so imagine being able to speak to Alexa while being in the bathroom in the morning what else does Coler have going on around here yeah so we showcased our vadera Mir last year with Amazon Alexa actually built in that product shipping so we're excited about that and we're showcasing now a Google version of that so we're giving consumers that flexibility if they want to have Amazon or if they want to have Google in their home so all that technology is also integrated into the mirr for you as well and then we're also excited still about our perfect fil bath tub so we showed perfect fill last year but now we're showing perfect fi again in a more flexible environment for our consumers so give them a modular they want to choose a different bathtub or a different bath filler so tell tell me a little bit more about how this works too cuz this is pretty incredible yeah so it's actually a perfect fill kit so it includes the spout it includes the drain and then all the controllers behind the wall so what it does is itow consumers to preset the depth of water that they want and then also the temperature that they want so they can use Amazon Alexa while they're downstairs with their kids and say start my bath 20 minutes later you walk upstairs it's the right depth and it's the right temperature for you that would be great for my son like don't even have to go upstairs to turn on the bathtub yeah so how are people responding to um to all of this insane technology in the bathroom so we actually already know that 80% of consumers bring a phone or tablet into the bathroom so they're already using technology we know that 13 % already used some Voice Assistant to do something so consumers are ready for this the the Market's ready for it it's been a great reception the mirror has been a rockstar our intelligent toilets have always been a rockstar so it's a great place to have our technology can you just speak a little we're not we can't see the smart lighting right now but can you talk a little bit more about the smart lighting that's being introduced here as well yeah so we have lighting actually integrated into our vadera mirror we also have a full collection this year called Veil lighted collection so it actually includes four products it includes a free sanding bath an intelligent to to a mirror and then a three-piece vanity and those products all work together from a design perspective so coler's design Heritage and then also the technology so those light points across all those products interact together to mimic nature so cool light in the morning warm light in the evening and then different brightnesses to set the mood for you that's awesome and this is this this isn't part of it though this is just to set the mood no so this these Suites that you see throughout our booth actually show consumers how these products would interact together in an environment and build different routines great well thank you much jonath and I really appreciate you talking to us about the new stuff it thanks for stopping by\n"