Design and implementation of a smart solid waste collection system

Abstract

Solid waste collection systems are very important in today's urban environment. The last three decades witnessed the development in urban areas over rural ones in a process called urbanization. Growth of urbanization is much more in developing countries than in the developed countries to the extent that it became a trend characterizing several developed and even least developed countries. Unfortunately, it has been observed that the systems currently used in modern cities do not provide a service of sufficient efficiency and quality, despite their high running costs. As an alternative, a smart solid waste collection system with all subcomponents was developed and applied in a small city in Turkey. In addition to the conventional waste collection systems, this system included smart features and optimization algorithms for route planning. The study presents the design philosophy, feasibility and pilot implementation of a smart solid waste collection system which can be operated with high efficiency at low cost.

Determination of Residual Municipal Solid Waste Composition from Rural and Urban Areas: A Step toward the Optimization of a Waste Management System for Efficient Material Recovery

“…The mean value of organic wastes in the winter period was 12.7%, while in the summer period, this value decreased to 11.3%. The reason for this slight decrease in the summer season could be explained by the evaporation of the water contained in the organic fraction, largely made up of fruit [5]. In fact, during the summer months, the culture of a healthier and lighter diet is widespread, rich in fresh products containing water such as fruit [78].…”

“…The generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) has increased along with population growth, urbanization, the improvement in living standards, human activity and economic development [1][2][3][4][5]. Dietary habits, level of commercial activity and seasons are just some of the variables that affect the amount and the generation rate of MSW [6,7].…”

“…Thanks to the introduction of numerous MSWM rules and regulations in recent decades that consider and discipline the entire life cycle of a product (from the producer to the consumption and the disposal), industrialized nations like the USA, Germany and Japan obtained substantial successes in waste management [29][30][31]. MSWM has significant economic potential, whose value is influenced by the effectiveness of waste management systems [5].…”

Performance Analysis of IoT and Long-Range Radio-Based Sensor Node and Gateway Architecture for Solid Waste Management

“…For transmitting the data to the web server, multiple communication technologies are embedded, one of these is GSM/GPRS module. AA smart collection system for solid waste is established with the integration of ultrasonic sensors, GSM protocol, and RFID technology [ 20 ]. The Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) framework was designed to provide a system for monitoring waste collections in real-time and almost every garbage bin has a sensor node, which detects the state of bins continuously and sends the signal to nearby vehicles when the bin is full [ 16 ].…”

Smart Cities: A Case Study in Waste Monitoring and Management

“…In [35], a support system that combines IoT technologies and surveillance systems is proposed, with the goal of improving the efficiency of collection routines. Cavdar et al further expands the smart bin concept and proposes an IoT based architecture in [16], which consists of robotic waste collection vehicles and custom-designed waste containers.…”