Can somebody explain to me why this needs Bluetooth?

According to their website, it is so the toilet can be paired to a Sanela control app which apparently can be used to control certain functional aspects of the urinal, as well as gives quick access to user manuals
Now if only we could find a way to hack this app, so that the toilet plays "It's Raining Men" every time it flushes... Now that would really be something
- Yeah I know, but is it necessary to give bt connections to everything?
  
  Yeah you're right, they probably could have just used wifi instead.
  
  Yeah I know, but is it necessary to give bt connections to everything?
  Wait till they load it with 'AI.'
  
  Seeing as they could accomplish basically the same thing with an indicator and a QR code, its crazy a bt chip and antenna were both used in this. My only remaining question: how is it powered?
  
  when technology became cheap enough to implement, so they can sell it as features
  
  Bluetooth is a questionable choice unless the company also offered some kind of network appliance that incorporates connections in a cheaper way than all units being networked. Allowing the hub, as a serviceable component, to provide additional monitoring and functionality without requiring each unit to also contain the components. There’s certainly reasons, not outlandish either, but who knows?
  
  One very cool thing would be a urinal that does internal health checks on your piss and allows you to access that on your phone. But yeah bluetooth is a shit choice for that too.
  
  BT can be used to track people. Maybe they need to know how many people are using it? Or they are stalking men who pee.
  
  Was it necessary to take the picture while looking the person in the eye at the urinal next to you while they were attempting to have a non anxiety ridden moment forcing them to not be able to pee?
- Finally! It's always disgusting to touch those public urinal manuals 🤢
  I also always end up peeing myself, so I'm glad there is an app to guide me now!
- What about Rihanna?
  Umbrella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-ella-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh-eh
- this's like that fancy japanese toilet South Park episode, and my peasant ass will never know what it's like to piss like a Kennedy

This makes we want to buy a bunch of Bluetooth stickers and stick them in random objects
- Be the change you want to pee.
- Thanks I hate it (or like it).

Serious answer: it's a "smart" urinal, in that it can report usage statistics, alert maintenance staff to problems, and be remotely controlled.
If you're in the facilities maintenance business, Bluetooth-enabled equipment can be a good way to get an operational technology network up and running without a lot of costly retrofit.
- Unserious Answer: it counts the fluid as it passes, because the last counting guy kept getting the count wrong and so people would grossly overpay/underpay when they used the urinal

To alert staff when customers have eaten the cake and it needs to be replenished

Cheaper than running plumbing through the walls
- Just be careful you don't accidentally connect your earbuds to it.

Because USB would be gross

Wrong community, this should be in pissposting
- You would be surprised what some are capable of

How else are you gonna get the pictures off it?
- If they wanted pictures of a bunch of cocks why not just put the camera in your moms mouth?
  
  I mean.....they could just go on omegle.

For many things. For IR or heat activated urinals you can set the sensitivity when they actuate, the flush volume, schedule regular cleaning cycles, and see statistics of usage, with some models remaining battery power, etc
When you are a maintenance guy in an office building with 100+ of these bad boys it helps a lot.
- Where is this? Rimworld?
  
  A stadium large theater could have more than just a few.

For pee counters and penis size statistics. Both very important in the world of science about the penis and the pee.
- You mean PeeTube? PeeTube is also the name of the astronaut pee device based pee device that doesn't need video to measure your penis length. Simply insert your penis into the spring loaded tube (it's just a tube with lots of springs in it). As your penis skin touches the springs, the penis length is measured. The current model is a 256SpT (Springs per Tube), which allows for a penis length resolution in 12"/256 increments.
- It's how we know pee is stored in the balls.
- Jokes on them dicks too small for sensors

how else is is the video supposed to get to my phone???

It needs to sell the pee data to advertisers.

So it knows if you're subscribed to urinal services.

It’s got a built in speaker you can pair your phone to if you have an official pee song, mine is CombatCircus, by Talco
Sounds dumb but once you’re synced up it’s hands free and the experience is really relaxing
- This is the most realistic sounding explanation and I'm really gullible
- hands-free? explain.
- The Bluetooth Device is ready to pair!

The difference in usage that badboy would get during a football game versus a gig at the same stadium would be enormous. Things like flush cycle frequency and when to turn the system on/off to conserve water. Nothing massively sinister - boring facility management stuff mostly.
- i'm gonna hack the urinal to make it flush in people's faces

It's a subscription based water cooler, obviously.
- There's no tap anywhere to fill the glass.
  
  The valve is underneath silly.

For the blockchain.
Now can somebody explain to me why this needs the blockchain?
Pee-powered shitcoin mining!
Or would that rather be... pisscoin?
- 30 years later.... Today is a day that will leave in yellow infamy! As pisscoin collapses, many drunkards and even regular people are finding creative ways of pissing outside the American standard urinal!

Did you ever think about how there is an average penis size measurement?
- So the penis inspectior that shows up at my house two times a month is a fraud?
- Maybe finally someone will take into account Yaw