IOT Based Smart Bin.

Project Title

IOT Based Smart Bin.

Project Area of Specialization Internet of ThingsProject Summary

In the current time, the immense growth in population creates unhygienic environment for the citizen of a society with respect to waste generation. This rapid generation of waste leads to various infectious diseases in the environment. As followed by the traditional municipal system, in our surroundings, we can see over flooding of solid waste in the garbage bins. Solid waste management is a pivotal aspect in traditional systems and it is becoming dangerous in most populated areas. Arduous labor works and costs are required to manage and monitor garbage bins in real time. To maintain the cleanliness of a city and for real-time monitoring of trash bins, a smart bin mechanism (SBM) for smart cities is proposed in this paper, which is based on Artificial Intelligent of Things (AIoT). The SBM works on the 3R concept, that is, Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse. The SBM has the access to get real-time information about each bin and avoid overloading of these bins. The proposed framework reduces the labor cost and saves time and energy of the system. It also reduces the rate of disease infections by keeping the cities clean. Fuzzy logic is used for decision-making in selecting appropriate locations in the cities to install trash bins. The framework is implemented in the multiagent modeling environment, that is, NetLogo.

Project Objectives

The significant growth of the Internet is leading to the emergence of new technology, that is, Internet of Things (IoT) [1]. The term IoT was first used by Ashton in 1999 [2]. IoT is the hub of physical devices that are interlinked through the Internet. These physical devices, that is, sensors, RFID tags, and various intelligent nodes, can communicate at any time from anywhere. IoT is the backbone of future communication systems where everything will communicate and share information smartly without human instructions [3]. The interconnected devices are transformed as smart objects, which have computational skills that are used to monitor an environment leading to smart cities.

IoT promotes various application areas, such as smart health, [4–13] smart city, [14, 15], environment monitoring [16, 17] smart home, [18, 19], traffic management [20–24], smart education system, [25], smart farming, [26, 27], and many others [28–35]. In smart cities, various problems occur when devices communicate with each other; one of the important problems is waste management. The main causes for this problem are the rapid growth of the urban population, high demands for food, and various other factors that are influencing the environment in smart cities. With an increase in population, the management of waste or garbage is a very hectic job to do in the current time. Being a member of the society, every local house, industry, and factory generate some amount of waste on a daily basis. This waste is ultimately collected in waste bins and eventually collected by the municipal vehicles and moved to dumping areas for disposing or recycling processes.

To keep the environment green and clean, monitoring and disposing of waste is very important these days. Improper disposal and poor monitoring of collected waste and waste bins can cause serious damage to human lives. This waste can spread various life-threatening diseases that in turn harm the lives of a whole city and country as well.

Nowadays, cities are facing various problems, such as small parking spaces [36], waste management, communication barriers in traditional systems, and health issues to name a few [37, 38]. All these problems directly affect the living of humans in their daily routine lives [39]. To overcome and solve the existing problems, a new concept has emerged in the light of IoT, named smart city [14]. IoT provides various new services in a smart city and develops an intelligent society [40, 41]. In IoT-based smart cities, physical devices interact and provide ease to humans according to their own intelligence [42]. IoT is further divided into various fields presented in Figure 1 [43], which explains the web-based rankings of each area in percentage. Based on the literature study, smart homes and smart cities get the highest rankings, which shows the trends in the modern era of technologies.

Project Implementation Method

In light of IoT technology, waste management is an important service that is supported by IoT. In today’s time, waste management is a collective issue in most countries, which needs uninterrupted importance for management. In traditional waste management systems, the rapid growth of garbage leaves the public places unhygienic and dirty. The unhygienic environment can cause various deadly diseases. The prior research focused on the centralized system for waste management that is managed by a central authority. In this study, we are proposing a smart waste management system for real-time monitoring of “trash bins” in order to take timely actions for cleaning the bins and maintaining a disease-free environment for the people. The proposed system is based on edge-nodes, that is, trash bins. In this system, a trash bin is working as an intelligent node in the entire processing of waste management.

Benefits of the Project

CLEAN ENVIRONMENT

SAVING TIME

COST EFFICIENT

EASY TO CLEAN 

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Raspberry Pi

Ultrasonic Sensor (HCSR04)

Waste Bin

Android Base Application

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry OthersOther Industries IT Core Technology Internet of Things (IoT)Other Technologies RoboticsSustainable Development Goals Affordable and Clean EnergyRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	50200
Raspberry Pi	Equipment	1	15000	15000
Ultrasonic Sensor	Equipment	12	2100	25200
Android Application and Firebase	Miscellaneous	1	10000	10000