Welcome to Nasoni

By Steve Waddell, Founder

You’re about to experience a brand-new creation that’s actually been around since the 1870s.

Here’s what I mean:

Years ago, while watching a video of Rome with my wife, we saw two girls watering their dog at a street fountain known as a nasoni. Before drinking themselves, they covered the downspout with their hand—sending a graceful arc of water from the top into their mouths.

With one simple gesture, the faucet became a water fountain. And I was mesmerized.

That moment lit a spark in me: Why aren’t all bathroom faucets like this?

With 25 years of experience building nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, I knew how to design systems that worked—and I wanted to take everything I knew about precision engineering and apply it to something useful, beautiful, and impactful.

So I built it. A fountain faucet for the home. Elegant. Practical. Inspired by Roman ingenuity and brought into the modern world.

But Nasoni’s story didn’t stop there.

Reinventing Nasoni: From Faucet to Future

Like many businesses, COVID forced us to rethink everything. We weren’t just a faucet company anymore—we were sitting on something bigger.

Around that time, my father—an Army veteran—started to fall. I remember wondering, Did he fall again? How long was he lying there? Is this the one that sends him to assisted living?

It was. Within six months of losing his independence, he lost the will to keep going.

I searched for solutions—something to help people live at home longer, safer, with dignity. I couldn’t find it.

So I decided to build it.

That mission took on even greater meaning when I met Dr. Lisa Koperna, Clinical Director at the Faschini Wallach Center at Old Dominion University. When she saw our original fountain faucet, she said, “If this had sensors, it could change the lives of spinal cord injury patients.” That led to NIH grant funding—and Nasoni’s first clinical trials.

At the same time, I remembered my mother-in-law caring for my father-in-law during his decline from dementia. One day, helping him wash his hair in the shower, they both slipped—he hit the toilet, she hit the shower track. It was terrifying.

That led to another insight: What if the faucet were tall enough to wash your hair at the sink—safer, easier, and with dignity?

That idea became the foundation of our second NIH grant, working alongside Dr. Hamid Okhravi, Board Member of the National Alzheimer’s Association and Alfred E. Abiouness Professor in Geriatrics.

What Nasoni Is Now

Today, Nasoni isn’t just reinventing the faucet—we’re transforming the bathroom into the hub of health and wellness in the home.

We’ve developed three key innovations:

• Origin™ Smart Faucet – accessible hygiene, grooming, and hydration with advanced motion, voice, and remote controls.
• Sense™ Radar System – predictive fall risk prevention intelligence, motion trend analysis, and passive health tracking—powering early intervention through ambient intelligence.
• Healthy Habits Index™ – a new behavioral health score for aging-in-place, based on real-world routines and clinical signals.

Backed by over $5 million in NIH grants, and built in partnership with leading researchers, Nasoni is now a smart product platform for aging, accessibility, and dignity—designed to help people stay independent longer.

It started with a spark in Rome.

It became a faucet.

Now, it’s a movement.

And we’re just getting started.

Steve Waddell
Founder