An IoT Based Efficient Waste Collection System with Smart Bins

Abstract

<div>Waste collection and management is an integrated</div><div>part of both city and village life. Lack of optimized and efficient waste collection system vastly affect public health and costs more. The prevailing traditional waste collection system is neither optimized nor efficient. Internet of Things (IoT) has been playing a great role in making human life easier by making systems smart, adequate and self sufficient. Thus, this paper proposes an IoT based efficient waste collection system with smart bins. It does real-time monitoring of the waste bins and determines which bins are to emptied in every cycle of waste collection. The system</div><div>also presents an enhanced navigation system that shows the best route to collect wastes from the selected bins. Four waste bins are assumed in the city of Mount Pleasant, Michigan at random location. The proposed system decreases the travel distance by 30.76% on an average in the assumed scenario, compared to the traditional waste collection system. Thus it reduces the fuel cost and human labor making the system optimized and efficient by enabling real-time monitoring and enhanced navigation.</div>

Application of IoT in Healthcare: Keys to Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals

“…In the analysis of human environment systems, such as cities or communities, it is necessary to carry out an in-depth study of the conflicts and systems in which an advanced society is involved. These systems and environments must also be involuted as an active part of a whole that brings together, for example, waste management, the measurement of environmental pollution [ 21 , 22 , 23 ], energy audits, the use of renewable energies, and electrical efficiency [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ].…”