Pure Balance
Project Timeline: 2 months
Team: Individual (Industrial Design Masters' Project)
Year of Completion: December 2018
Role: Product Design, Researcher
For: School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
Overview
Introducing Pure Balance, an innovative solution designed to address common challenges faced while traveling. Eliminate the reliance on single-use plastic bottles and enjoy access to purified water from any source. Pure Balance allows you to maintain your desired water temperature, ensuring a refreshing experience during your journeys. Embrace a sustainable and efficient approach to hydration while on the move.
Product Initiation
The project initiated with identification of problems an average person face while traveling. The major problem that resonated with an online survey carried out with responses from over 60 people was to find a better system for their water drinking requirements.
Is traveling without single use plastic water bottles possible ?
Design Research
Literature Research
Understanding about the various types of drinking water sources available while traveling and alternates options and focusing at the major problems with using plastic bottles.
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A million of plastic bottles are bought per minute and this muller to increase by 20% by 2021
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Less than half of the these are recycled, only 7% of the used plastic repurposed as a new bottle.
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These bottles end up in landfills or oceans where it takes 450+ years to decompose
Alternatives Available
Research to understand what are the available water sources and alternates to plastic water bottles.
Available Water Sources
Water Filtration Techniques
Primary Research
The Primary research focused on getting insight from the habits of people while traveling
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The survey gathered feedback from 69 people.
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80% of people buy and use plastic water bottles while traveling only.
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The pattern included buying 1-5L of water bottles for 92% of users.
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This is due to the trust and the easy availability of packaged drinking water.
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Water bottles are available at desired water temperature, specially during hot weather.
How Might We ease the access of drinkable water while traveling
providing pure water without investing in single use plastics
Design Development
Concept Generation to ideate on the design brief
Form iteration with physical models to understand the ergonomics and water quantity, along with working mechanism
Design Feedback
Redesign based on the working mechanism. Work on the shape based on the size and proper holding of water bottle
Final Design
Features
Pure Water
Controlled Temperature
Easy to Use
Steps to Use
2
Wait for Filtration Process
1
Fill Water
3
Drink
Internals
Mechanism
Double Purification Mechanism
Temperature Control Mechanism
The temperature of the bottle can go from 0 degrees to 55 degrees. The hot is indicated with the diplay and the logo turns red in color, while the cold is indicated with logo in blue display. While the filtration is in process the logo is in white color.
The mobile app lets the user to set the water temperature based on their requirements. The app comes with preset settings which a user can modify for quick use and set their personal targets.
