Smart waste management using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and IoT (Internet of Things)

  Rahul Moriwal

Rapid increase in population, has led to the improper waste management in cities resulting in increased pests and spreading of diseases. Nowadays, the Garbage Collecting Vehicle (GCV) collects the waste twice or thrice in a week. So, the problem is over flowing of wastages on the roads. Hence, to overcome this limitation, in this paper a scheme on smart waste management using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and IoT (Internet of Things) is proposed. The garbage bins are deployed with sensors and are networked together using WSN. The sensors deployed in the garbage bins collect the data for every determined interval. Once the threshold is reached, it raises a request to the GCA (Garbage Collector Agent). This agent collects the requests of all the filled vehicles and communicate using IoT framework. The experimental simulation is done in proteus tool. A hardware prototype is developed for the proposed framework. Analysis of the proposed scheme provides better results in waste management. “Cleanliness is next to godliness” is said and believed from the centuries. “In the approach of the smart cities mission, the objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment with the application of smart solutions”. Smart cities don’t only mean smart buildings and smart parking areas but smarter waste management system is also a major issue to be addressed in developing a smart city. The smart waste management system which is proposed herein uses smart sensors to gather fill-level data from containers and garbage bins, and send it to an authorized number in real time. The authorized phone number which is situated in Waste Management Centre gather fill-level information sent from multiple containers which are situated throughout a city/locality. In this system, even the society president will come to know that whether the society’s dustbin is emptied by drivers or not. Whenever the dustbin gets empty the message will be forwarded to society president and then he can even give feedback to their respective society truck drivers.

Keywords- Solid Waste Management, Garbage, Municipal Corporation, Internet of Things, Wifi, Zero Waste.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1903130
Page Number(s) - 751-754
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 3 | September 2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Rahul Moriwal,   "Smart waste management using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and IoT (Internet of Things)", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 3, pp.751-754, September 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1903130.pdf