Showers: Shower Times

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Shower Times

Description

Shower times and amount of water used

Format

A data frame with 1335 observations on the following 7 variables.

DeviceID

Identifier for a shower sensor

WaterPressure

Water pressure (in bars)

Time

Shower time (in minutes)

FlowRate

Water flow rate (liters/min)

Volume

Amount of water during the shower (liters)

Timer

Was a shower timer available? (No or Yes)

ShowerHeadType

Code for the type of showerhead (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 8)

Details

Water usage was measured in a study at more than one hundred shower sites over a 39-week period. This dataset has results from a subset of that study (week 5) giving the time of each shower, along with water pressure, flow rate, and volume of water used. Some showers had a timer available to show users the length of time in the shower.

Source

Pereira-Doel, P., Daly, J. E. M., & Walker, I. (2024, March 22). "Beyond the water flow rate: water pressure and smart timers impact shower efficiency" doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/NTZGC

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