Robust Waste Collection: Exploiting IoT Potentiality in Smart Cities

Volume 11 Issue 3 January - March 2017

Research Paper

Robust Waste Collection: Exploiting IoT Potentiality in Smart Cities

Sakshi Goenka*, R. S. Mangrulkar**

* PG Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BDCE, Wardha, India.

** Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, SVKM's D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India.

Goenka, S., and Mangrulkar, R. S. (2017). Robust Waste Collection: Exploiting IoT Potentiality in Smart Cities. i-manager’s Journal on Software Engineering, 11(3), 10-18. https://doi.org/10.26634/jse.11.3.13622

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an internetworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings, and other items- embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity that enables these objects to collect and exchange data. Civil habitation in the near future will move to large urban areas thus forming vast cities. These cities will incorporate IoT components in their backbone infrastructure, thus transforming into smart cities. One major component of smart cities is smart environment, a countermeasure for growing pollution. Waste management can be treated as a potential IoT service which exploits robustness and efficiency. IoT provides a novel solution for waste collection service. This paper presents one such solution. Smart bins are designed. These are incorporated with hardware containing microcontroller, sensor and GSM modem. The sensors will sense the level of bin filled and send its status to the server via GSM. At the server application, bin status along with its number and area will be displayed. The server will then notify ward member, driver or officer about bin status through a text message. Also an android application is developed for driver and officer to supervise their respective works and enable remote system handling.