Muslim Ablution Eco Water Tap: From First Design Alpha Prototype to Second Design

Abstract

Muslim in Indonesia uses a lot of water to do an ablution activity, and it is not caused by wasteful character of Indonesia's Muslim society, but because of the design of conventional water tap is not intended to conserve water in ablution activity. To solve the problem, a conceptional Muslim ablution eco water tap design was made. The concept of the product is, it has a mechanical based system to create an auto shutdown mechanism. Thus, the water usage for ablution is predicted can be decreased. However, after the first design alpha prototype is built, faults of the design are directly detected. Thus, this paper tries to analyze the first design alpha prototype and suggest a refinement to create the second design. In this paper, two deficiencies from the first design are identified and a second design is proposed.