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A clas­sic faucet is a device for mix­ing hot and cold water. On aver­age, the sim­plest such unit con­sumes 10–14 l / min. In 3 min­utes, tan­gi­ble 30–40 liters come out, and spend­ing per month becomes awe­some. To save water, you should pay atten­tion to sen­sor mix­ers. Such mod­els con­sume from 5 to 7 l / min, reduce vol­umes with­in a month due to a sen­sor that stops flow­ing when you remove your hands from under the spout. How­ev­er, not every­one fol­lows the lat­est in the plumb­ing mar­ket, does not con­sid­er or con­sid­er such options expen­sive and use­less. Sen­sor mix­ers have ceased to be a lux­u­ry item and are con­stant­ly installed not only in pub­lic places, but also in apart­ments, and the choice of options is lim­it­ed only by the imag­i­na­tion and desires of the con­sumer.

In appear­ance, sen­sor mix­ers are divid­ed into:

With push­but­ton or dis­play	They are con­trolled by a sen­sor or touch screen, have many func­tions and set­tings: from water sup­ply mode to tem­per­a­ture con­trol;
Con­tact­less	Visu­al­ly, the crane is dis­tin­guished by the com­plete absence of valves and dis­plays. The prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion of the equip­ment is quite sim­ple: there is a spe­cial sen­sor in the case (IR, ultra­son­ic or with a pho­to­cell) that reacts to hand move­ments;
With built-in lamp	Addi­tion­al illu­mi­na­tion in the form of a sin­gle-col­or LED lamp direct­ly on the crane body.

By the length of the sup­plied jet:

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• long, jet length exceeds 35 cm;
• medi­um from 20 cm;
• short­ened to 10 cm;
• design.

There is a divi­sion accord­ing to the prin­ci­ple of work:

With spout from sep­a­rate taps	Inex­pen­sive smart faucet with two sep­a­rate­ly adjustable hot/cold taps. It has reli­able elec­tron­ic-mechan­i­cal com­po­nents. You can set it to a com­fort­able tem­per­a­ture once and for­get about adjust­ments for­ev­er;
Sin­gle lever	The out­let flow is con­trolled by a sin­gle lever with a ceram­ic or ball car­tridge. It is worth pay­ing atten­tion to this detail, since ceram­ics are more resis­tant to mechan­i­cal wear, but are depen­dent on the com­po­si­tion of water, and the ball part wears out rel­a­tive­ly quick­ly;
Elec­tron­ic	The most dif­fi­cult, but suit­able option for a “smart home”. The mod­el has many func­tions: auto­mat­ic con­trol of pres­sure and water tem­per­a­ture, “mem­o­ry” mode and remote access;
with dou­ble spout	The design with a dou­ble spout is close to sin­gle-lever and is their mod­i­fi­ca­tion. The key dif­fer­ence is the pres­ence of an inte­grat­ed water fil­ter in the sys­tem. Such faucets pro­vide the abil­i­ty to switch from direct water sup­ply to the fil­ter and vice ver­sa.

Before you start search­ing and buy­ing, you should pay atten­tion to sev­er­al fac­tors. First, make sure that the faucet is tru­ly sen­so­ry, as it can eas­i­ly be con­fused with a mod­el with a built-in sen­sor. These prod­ucts are char­ac­ter­ized by an addi­tion­al flow restric­tor that opti­mizes water flow with­out com­pro­mis­ing user com­fort. But the prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion, equip­ment, con­fig­u­ra­tion and instal­la­tion are dif­fer­ent from the touch.

Sec­ond­ly, decide where you will install the mix­er. The touch faucet is great for a sink or wash­basin. The main advan­tage of such options is the abil­i­ty for the user to pre-set a con­stant tem­per­a­ture and water sup­ply mode using a lever on the tap or a sep­a­rate reg­u­la­tor. But it is dif­fi­cult to use them in the kitchen: the mix­er sup­plies water at a pre­set tem­per­a­ture, and it may be dif­fi­cult to con­stant­ly adjust the tap (warm water is required for dish­es, for exam­ple, cool water for food).

To nav­i­gate the vari­ety of such devices, we sug­gest that you famil­iar­ize your­self with the selec­tion of the best sen­sor mix­ers in 2022.

Editor’s Choice

Grohe Eurosmart Cosmopolitan E

High qual­i­ty ver­sion from Ger­many. The man­u­fac­tur­er guar­an­tees 5 years of unin­ter­rupt­ed oper­a­tion of the mod­el, but the war­ran­ty itself applies only to con­sum­ables. Fash­ion­able design solu­tion, low cost and easy instal­la­tion process are the key to suc­cess with buy­ers. The chrome fin­ish pro­vides shine, ele­gance and visu­al appeal to the faucet. When choos­ing a place for instal­la­tion, you should pay atten­tion that the mod­el is made with a non-rotat­ing spout. The touch scan­ner is pow­ered by an infrared sen­sor locat­ed at the base of the struc­ture, the launch is instan­ta­neous, with­out delay.

Water con­sump­tion is min­i­mized to 5.7 l / min, water bills at the end of the month will pleas­ant­ly sur­prise you. The mod­el is pow­ered by bat­ter­ies, and one bat­tery is includ­ed in the kit. Addi­tion­al func­tions and fine adjust­ments are pos­si­ble with a remote con­trol (sold sep­a­rate­ly). In addi­tion, the faucet is equipped with a mul­ti-stage bat­tery sta­tus indi­ca­tor and offers own­ers pre­set modes: auto­mat­ic flush, ther­mal dis­in­fec­tion, wash­ing mode.

Main characteristics

Con­trol	sen­so­ry
Equip­ment	mix­er, flex­i­ble hose, bat­tery (1 pc.)
Mount­ing	hor­i­zon­tal
Pur­pose	for a sink (wash­basin)
Hous­ing mate­r­i­al	brass
Coat­ing	chromi­um
spout type	tra­di­tion­al
Eye­lin­er type	flex­i­ble
spout height	104 mm
spout length	105 mm
Pecu­liar­i­ties	built-in fil­ter

Pros and cons

Instant reac­tion of the sen­sor, bat­tery charge indi­ca­tor, dura­bil­i­ty, nice appear­ance, shiny design, 5‑year man­u­fac­tur­er’s war­ran­ty

The spout does not rotate, the guar­an­tee cov­ers only the rub­ber seals

Rating of the top 3 best inexpensive sensor faucets

1. BRIMIX 083

Mod­ern touch mod­el with an infrared sen­sor. The prod­uct is made in high-tech style of high-qual­i­ty mate­r­i­al with a chrome coat­ing, which pro­vides resis­tance to mechan­i­cal stress. The tap for mix­ing hot and cold streams with the abil­i­ty to adjust the tem­per­a­ture is locat­ed under the table­top. The mod­el will turn on if you bring your hands to the spout at a dis­tance of 25–30 cm from the sen­sor. The device is equipped with an aer­a­tor that allows you to puri­fy water with­out the use of addi­tion­al funds and sat­u­rate the stream with air to cre­ate a stream that is com­fort­able for hygiene pro­ce­dures.

It can be switched on both from 4 AA bat­ter­ies (pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly) and from the mains, so this mix­er works autonomous­ly, with­out elec­tri­cal con­nec­tion. It can be placed any­where, regard­less of the pres­ence of out­lets. An auto­mat­ic shut­down func­tion is pro­vid­ed, which allows you to save water con­sump­tion and pre­vent the use of the device for oth­er pur­pos­es (pro­tects chil­dren from pam­per­ing or flood­ing the apart­ment due to inat­ten­tion).

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

Kitchen faucets

Choos­ing the best tool “to the fore­front” of house­hold chores

2 Potato P0077

Touch faucet with infrared sen­sor for water sup­ply. Minia­ture mod­el, made in high-tech style. The loca­tion does not depend on the avail­abil­i­ty of sock­ets: the mod­el works both on bat­ter­ies and on the mains. The ther­mo­stat is installed with the con­trol unit under the sink. The whole process is sim­ple and acces­si­ble to non-pro­fes­sion­als thanks to the quick instal­la­tion sys­tem (the pro­ce­dure for attach­ing the faucet to the sink or sink, in which there is no need to work on fix­ing the faucet from below or under it).

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The faucet mod­el does not have a water tem­per­a­ture con­trol on the body. How­ev­er, the user can set a con­stant com­fort mode by installing the mix­ing unit that comes with the kit. The dis­tance of sen­sor acti­va­tion from hands is 20–30 cm.

The faucet is equipped with an auto­mat­ic shut­down func­tion after 3 min­utes of inac­tiv­i­ty. In com­bi­na­tion with an aver­age flow rate (9 l/min), the faucet allows sig­nif­i­cant sav­ings in water con­sump­tion. The pre­sent­ed type of device has a sta­tion­ary spout that does not change its posi­tion in space. The ser­vice life declared by the man­u­fac­tur­er is 10 years.

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Pros and cons

3.OUTE

The touch-sen­si­tive faucet is made of durable, envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly and safe brass, and its chrome coat­ing guar­an­tees wear resis­tance. Out­ward­ly it looks ele­gant, it is also easy to main­tain — just wipe it with a reg­u­lar cloth for a mir­ror shine. Instal­la­tion and oper­a­tion also do not cause prob­lems due to the pres­ence of a quick instal­la­tion sys­tem and the oper­a­tion of the device from lithi­um bat­ter­ies.

The water flow rate is 7 l/min, which is slight­ly high­er than the aver­age flow rate for a con­ven­tion­al faucet, but saves a lot by turn­ing off the flow when idle (3 min­utes). Man­u­fac­tur­er’s war­ran­ty — 7 years. The device has a loud turn-on sound and not the most sen­si­tive sen­sor, accord­ing to cus­tomer reviews, the max­i­mum delay in water sup­ply exceeds 0.8 sec­onds.

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Ranking of the top 3 best touch basin and washbasin faucets

1.Hansen H70001

The uni­ver­sal mod­el looks ele­gant and is suit­able for bath­rooms of dif­fer­ent styles. The mix­er dif­fers in dura­bil­i­ty and good work­man­ship. In addi­tion, accord­ing to user reviews, the mod­el is easy to install and con­nect. The plas­tic aer­a­tor pre­vents the for­ma­tion of rust and limescale, saves water con­sump­tion, which reach­es a max­i­mum of 9 l / min.

The touch mix­er is con­trolled con­tact­less­ly by a pho­to­cell (sen­sor) built into the body. The mod­el is pow­ered by lithi­um bat­ter­ies, which are not includ­ed. On the side of the case there is a tem­per­a­ture adjust­ment knob, but there is no way to change the pres­sure. The man­u­fac­tur­er gives a 5‑year war­ran­ty on its prod­ucts.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

2. Hansgrohe Focus 31174000

The mod­el from Ger­many is made in the shape of the let­ter G with a spout height of 13 cm. The sen­sor is trig­gered with­out delay when hands approach, and the max­i­mum water flow is 5 l / min, which is much low­er than that of ana­logues. After instal­la­tion, the user inde­pen­dent­ly adjusts the tem­per­a­ture lim­its and range using a met­al valve. Due to the ceram­ic car­tridge, it rotates smooth­ly, allow­ing you to accu­rate­ly and quick­ly set the required tem­per­a­ture and water pres­sure.

For ease of care of the mix­er, the Quick­Clean sys­tem is pro­vid­ed, which allows you to clean the aer­a­tor with a flick of the wrist. For ease of use, the kit includes a built-in fil­ter sys­tem and back­flow pro­tec­tion. The faucet is mount­ed using Soft­PEX hoses (includ­ed). This is a par­tic­u­lar­ly strong eye­lin­er, dur­ing the instal­la­tion of which there are no ques­tions even for non-pro­fes­sion­als.

But there are also dis­ad­van­tages: the mod­el only works from the mains (you will have to install an out­let). Accord­ing to cus­tomer reviews, the faucet can spon­ta­neous­ly turn on, and the body is made of low-qual­i­ty plas­tic.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

3. Grohe Eurosmart Cosmopolitan E 36327000

Such a device will be use­ful for fam­i­lies with small chil­dren, since the child does not have to reach for the valve to open the faucet. The water turns on auto­mat­i­cal­ly when hands are brought near the infrared sen­sor. Con­sump­tion is also a pleas­ant sur­prise — only 5.7 l / min. The man­u­fac­tur­er pro­vides a built-in fil­ter in the kit — in addi­tion to sav­ing the flow, there is an addi­tion­al clean­ing of the jet.

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The case is made of brass — a pop­u­lar mate­r­i­al that looks aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing, styl­ish and will last a long time due to its resis­tance to cor­ro­sion and mechan­i­cal dam­age. The StarLight chrome fin­ish is scratch-resis­tant and retains its shine. The tem­per­a­ture can be adjust­ed using the side lever.

An aer­a­tor, pru­dent­ly includ­ed in the kit, sat­u­rates the water with oxy­gen, soft­ens it and reduces con­sump­tion. Before buy­ing, you should pay atten­tion that the com­plete eye­lin­er for a 3/8 inch stan­dard pipe (you will have to pur­chase an adapter for domes­tic 1/2 inch).

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Pros and cons

Rating of the top 3 best kitchen faucets

1. KAISER Vincent-Sensor 31366–1

The touch-sen­si­tive bronze kitchen faucet is switched on and off by the move­ment of the hands in the sen­sor field. Made in a retro design, with a white plas­tic han­dle on the side of the faucet. It looks inter­est­ing and styl­ish, but not prac­ti­cal enough, since such a lever quick­ly fails. Thanks to him, you can work with­out a sen­sor, using a clas­sic valve for chang­ing the tem­per­a­ture and water pres­sure.

In touch mode, the jet turns off auto­mat­i­cal­ly after 2 min­utes of inac­tiv­i­ty. The mix­er is equipped with a swiv­el spout and a 35 cm long retractable water­ing can. The prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion is as sim­ple as pos­si­ble: we grab the spout and pull it towards us. It is con­ve­nient to use to fill con­tain­ers that do not fit in the sink.

The faucet has a built-in water heat­ing func­tion and two flow modes: sin­gle jet or show­er. Every­thing is reg­u­lat­ed by a sil­i­cone but­ton on the spout, which is very unre­li­able. Over many years of oper­a­tion, a thin lay­er may begin to peel off.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

2. Grohe Essence Foot Control (30311 000)

Mul­ti­func­tion­al ver­sion of the mix­er: con­trol by sen­sor and foot lever. A pecu­liar design can be suit­able for a high-tech kitchen. The coat­ing gets dirty quick­ly when used, but does not require seri­ous main­te­nance. It is pow­ered by one lithi­um bat­tery, which is pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly. You don’t have to change the bat­tery often — the ser­vice life is designed for 2 years, and the charge involves up to 3000–5000 inclu­sions per month.

Mod­el with a fixed water flow when using the sen­sor and a stan­dard jet when you switch to the lever. The fac­to­ry set­tings pro­vide for auto­mat­ic shut­down after a minute of con­tin­u­ous inac­tiv­i­ty. The faucet with an eco­nom­i­cal water flow of up to 9 l/min is equipped with a retractable water­ing can (rotates 360 degrees) with a switch to the show­er jet and aer­a­tor.

The spe­cial noz­zle pro­vides an even flow of water, sav­ing over 5 m³ per year due to pres­sure dis­si­pa­tion and fil­tra­tion of impu­ri­ties. Easy instal­la­tion of plumb­ing is pro­vid­ed by a quick instal­la­tion sys­tem. A 5‑year man­u­fac­tur­er’s war­ran­ty is pro­vid­ed.

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3. Jacob Delafon Sensate (E72218-B7-CP)

A vari­ant of the sen­so­ry kitchen faucet with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of addi­tion­al man­u­al con­trol thanks to the lever on the body. Pow­er is sup­plied from the mains — you have to look for a place to install. The set includes a pull-out spout with­out a water­ing can — it can be pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly.

Water con­sump­tion is eco­nom­i­cal, not infe­ri­or to ana­logues and does not exceed 7 l / min. The body is made of chrome-plat­ed stain­less steel. Thanks to its uni­ver­sal design, the faucet will fit into the inte­ri­or of your kitchen, and a 5‑year war­ran­ty from the man­u­fac­tur­er will give you con­fi­dence in its dura­bil­i­ty. The height under the spout is 394 cm, which will please any house­wife — there will be enough space for con­ve­nient wash­ing even of large pots.

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Main characteristics

Pros and cons

Rating of the top 3 best bathroom faucets

1. Lemark Project LM4653CE

The touch­less faucet has an attrac­tive min­i­mal­is­tic design and does not have any exter­nal con­trols. The body is made of eco-friend­ly and high-qual­i­ty brass — a durable and styl­ish mate­r­i­al. The crane from the side looks dec­o­ra­tive and is installed only strict­ly hor­i­zon­tal­ly. Thanks to the quick assem­bly sys­tem, assem­bly is acces­si­ble even for non-pro­fes­sion­als. The pow­er sup­ply is pow­ered by 4 bat­ter­ies, which will have to be pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly.

The sen­sor is fast and clear, the sen­sor is trig­gered in less than 0.8 sec­onds after move­ment in its field of action. The man­u­fac­tur­er pro­vides the abil­i­ty to adjust the mix­ing of hot and cold water through a valve with a car­tridge (installed under the coun­ter­top), but with­out adjust­ing the water pres­sure. The max­i­mum flow rate does not exceed 12 l / min, the jet is addi­tion­al­ly sat­u­rat­ed with air thanks to the built-in aer­a­tor. Lemark guar­an­tees unin­ter­rupt­ed oper­a­tion of the prod­uct for 4 years.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

2. BRIMIX BRX 08150

Touch faucet made of met­al in a styl­ish chrome col­or. The man­u­fac­tur­er pro­vides the abil­i­ty to adjust the water tem­per­a­ture using a valve on the body. The kit includes an aer­a­tor that puri­fies and sat­u­rates water with­out the use of addi­tion­al prod­ucts to cre­ate a dense jet and car­ry out com­fort­able hygiene pro­ce­dures.

The touch faucet is acti­vat­ed by a pho­to­cell, reacts exclu­sive­ly to move­ments, and when idle, the water auto­mat­i­cal­ly turns off. The pow­er sup­ply unit works both from bat­ter­ies (not includ­ed) and from the mains. Con­ve­nient high swiv­el U‑shaped spout (310 mm) in shape and size is ide­al for bath­rooms and kitchens. Man­u­fac­tur­er’s war­ran­ty — 1 year.

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3. Kaifee

Chi­nese stain­less steel faucet with pull-out spout. The prin­ci­ple of its oper­a­tion dif­fers from tra­di­tion­al mod­els — you need to touch your hand on any point of the spout to start. You also need to pay atten­tion to care, as the sur­face will con­stant­ly be in con­tact with dirty hands. The device attracts buy­ers with a set of para­me­ters of top prod­ucts, but at a bud­get price. But there is also a minus — the man­u­fac­tur­er’s war­ran­ty is only 1 year.

It is pow­ered by lithi­um bat­ter­ies pro­vid­ed by the man­u­fac­tur­er with a ser­vice life of up to 5 years. The mod­el has a fixed tem­per­a­ture and water sup­ply mode when using a sen­sor with high func­tion­al­i­ty and eco­nom­i­cal flow (aver­age 10 l / min). The faucet is equipped with a 20 cm retractable water­ing can with a show­er switch. There is a key for switch­ing the jet mode: one large or many small ones. Every­thing for users — sim­ple and intu­itive instal­la­tion, con­fig­u­ra­tion and use.

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Pros and cons

How to choose a sensor mixer

In order not to regret buy­ing a sen­sor mix­er, you should focus on:

• Mod­els with adjustable sen­sor sen­si­tiv­i­ty. It will be pos­si­ble to adjust the faucet accord­ing to per­son­al needs, the dis­tance range varies from 5 to 20 cm;
• The com­bi­na­tion of the design of the room and oth­er plumb­ing with the select­ed mod­el;
• Addi­tion­al func­tions of the sen­sor — turn­ing off the flow by timer, the fre­quen­cy of switch­ing on and off. The wider the func­tion­al­i­ty, the more con­ve­nient the oper­a­tion process;
• The pres­ence of a han­dle or a tem­per­a­ture adjust­ment sen­sor on the mix­er body (found in mod­els of the mid­dle and pre­mi­um seg­ment);
• Pos­si­bil­i­ty of adjust­ment in accor­dance with indi­vid­ual set­tings and inte­gra­tion into the “smart home” sys­tem.

Also, do not for­get about the impor­tant cri­te­ria:

Housing material

Mod­els made of brass, cop­per and stain­less steel are con­sid­ered opti­mal in terms of price and qual­i­ty on the mar­ket. If the options made of cop­per and steel are quite capri­cious in their care, then brass ide­al­ly retains its orig­i­nal appear­ance and is suit­able for instal­la­tion in any room.

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Control

Pay atten­tion to the pres­ence / absence of a remote con­trol or the abil­i­ty to con­trol through the appli­ca­tion.

Jet length and mixer dimensions

The main thing is to remem­ber the laws of physics: the sink must com­pen­sate for the height of the flow. The high­er the mix­er, the “deep­er” it should be. It is also worth pay­ing atten­tion to the loca­tion: if the sink is super­im­posed on top of the coun­ter­top, then we give pref­er­ence to a faucet with the largest pos­si­ble spout.

Power type

Pow­er comes either from the out­let, or autonomous­ly. This affects the instal­la­tion site, the fre­quen­cy of bat­tery replace­ment (in stand­alone) or the need to install pow­er lines.

Sensor type

There are cranes with an infrared sen­sor, a pho­to­cell and ultra­son­ic mod­els. The first type is the most com­mon. The prin­ci­ple of its oper­a­tion is to track the infrared radi­a­tion sen­sor. Mix­ers with an ultra­sound mod­el work in a sim­i­lar way, only the sen­sor reacts to sound waves. This option is not the most pop­u­lar among man­u­fac­tur­ers. As for the pho­to­cell, such prod­ucts are more expen­sive and more often than oth­ers work false­ly (for exam­ple, on glare of light).

Connection system

Pay atten­tion to the mix­er con­nec­tion sys­tems: one- or two-pipe. If you plan to sup­ply both hot and cold water, we rec­om­mend stop­ping at a two-pipe scheme. It should be not­ed that in the case of using a mix­er with a con­trol unit, the mix­ing of cold and hot water occurs through a ther­mo­stat.

Expert opinion on sensor faucets

He talks about the use of sen­sor mix­ers and key play­ers in the mar­ket Alex­ey Starkovcon­struc­tion spe­cial­ist

“The best area for the use of such mod­els is when it is nec­es­sary to fre­quent­ly turn on and off the water at a con­stant tem­per­a­ture and with the same pres­sure (wash­ing hands, wash­ing), that is, these plumb­ing fix­tures are ide­al in pub­lic places with increased hygiene require­ments (shop­ping cen­ters, cafes ).

The key play­ers in the pre­mi­um sen­sor faucet mar­ket are Hans­Gro­he (Ger­many) and Oras Elec­tra (Fin­land). In the main­stream seg­ment, these are Lemark Project (Czech Repub­lic), Frap (Chi­na) and RaiBer (RF).”