Wim’s Works-like Prototype

Wim is a company that has a moonshot idea to eliminate single used plastic bottle waste. The way that we are achieving this is to create a network of smart kiosks where people can subscribe and get beverages from. When they are done with the beverage, they can return the bottle to the kiosks, where the bottle will then be cleaned, serialized, and refilled for the next person to use.

The goal is this works-like prototype is to show investors the feasibility of the technology. The way this prototype work is that the user will input a dirty bottle on one end, and on the other end, the system will output a filled bottle. For this particular prototype, we made it based on the FDA standard on how to proper clean and sterilized a bottle.

For this prototype, we bought an off the shelf conveyor belt. Then on this conveyor belt we created different stations which signifies the different standards from the FDA. The different stations are cleaning the interior and the exterior with hot water, sterilizing the mouth of the bottle with steam (other methods were also explored after), and cleaning the bottle with product water. Below is a video of the system working and also some development images.