RFID based solid waste collection process

Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is one of the most promising and anticipated technologies in recent years. The paper proposes an automated system for waste collection and container monitoring system using RFID, GPS, GIS and GSM technologies. The proposed system consists of RFID tags mounted on containers, RFID readers mounted on trucks along with GPS for location tracking and GSM module for wireless transmission. The system provides real time monitoring of the waste collection system through a web based application available to administrators for decision making like reallocation of routes and containers etc. and management issues like observing performance of contractors, observing waste generation characteristics of particular area etc. and to the citizens providing transparency in civic administration. The model is proposed for Ahmedabad Municipal corporation.

A review on technologies and their usage in solid waste monitoring and management systems: Issues and challenges

“…As shown in the table, GPS based SWM system is primarily used in collection vehicle tracking to measure the time, delayed by the vehicles in waste transfer stations (Lee and Thomas, 2004;O'connor, 2008;Wilson et al, 2007). Others applications of GPS in SWM focused on route optimization based on static data (Alam Flora, 2009;Minghua et al, 2009;Nielsen et al, 2010), collection monitoring Purohit and Bothale, 2011) and implementation of efficient billing (Swedberg, 2009). …”

“…Optimization of waste collection vehicles and automated billing (Purohit and Bothale, 2011) Collection monitoring GPS and GSM for capturing and transmitting spatial information to a control server…”

“…As shown in the table, RFID based SWM systems were extensively used for tracking of collection vehicles, driver activities and bins by storing required data about drivers, vehicles and bins in database and compare with captured data (Chowdhury and Chowdhury, 2007;Friedlos, 2005;O'connor, 2008;Pratheep and Hannan, 2011), facilitating the growth of Pay as You Throw based billing for SWM services as well as promote incentive based recycling programs (Gnoni et al, 2013;Nielsen et al, 2010;Swedberg, 2009) and sorting and recycling by capturing bin level data for early identification of waste (Glouche and Couderc, 2013;Sinha and Couderc, 2012). Beside these, by combining RFID with other ICTs can help the SWM operators by providing information related to ID, collecting time and area to ensure the service done well (Ali et al, 2012;Arebey et al, 2010;Hannan et al, 2011;Kietzmann, 2008;Purohit and Bothale, 2011).…”

“…For SWM applications, wireless communication technologies are mainly used for data communication. (Boustani et al, 2011;Isoaho and Peltoniemi, 2004;Johansson, 2006;Mcleod et al, 2013;Purohit and Bothale, 2011), GPRS (Ali et al, 2012;Faccio et al, 2011;Friedlos, 2005;O'connor, 2007;Vicentini et al, 2009;Wilson and Vincent, 2008) and VHFR (Lee and Thomas, 2004) were adopted by several solid waste collection and monitoring systems. The short-range communications technologies such as Wi-Fi (Chowdhury and Chowdhury, 2007;Hong et al, 2014), ZigBee (Catania and Ventura, 2014;Longhi et al, 2012) and Bluetooth (Friedlos, 2005;O'connor, 2007) were used among data acquisition nodes and sink nodes.…”

Efficient Garbage Disposal Management in Metropolitan Cities Using VANETs

“…After data processing, it is transferred to the Global Information System (GIS) terminal. The real time information can be shared with clients via a web based solution, [2].…”