Smart City Garbage Collection & Monitoring System

Electronics Engineering

Recently, it is seen that dustbins placed at a various places like public places such as hospitals, educational Institutes and Industries are overflowing. This overflowing of garbage bins create unhygienic condition which can spread the diseases .Also rapid increase in population waste give rise to improper waste management. To avoid this situation, we proposed new system “Smart City Garbage Collection & Monitoring System”. In the recent decades, Urbanization has increased tremendously. At the same time there is an increase in waste production. Waste management has been a crucial issue to be considered. This paper is a way to achieve this good cause. In this paper, smart bin is built on a microcontroller based platform Aurdino Uno board which is interfaced with GSM modem and Ultrasonic sensor. Ultrasonic sensor is placed at the top of the dustbin which will measure the status of the dustbin. The threshold limit is set as 10cm. Aurdino will be programmed in such a way that when the dustbin is being filled, the remaining height from the threshold height will be displayed. Once the garbage reaches the threshold level ultrasonic sensor will trigger the GSM modem which will continuously alert the required authority until the garbage in the dustbin is squashed. According to the location, authority will sends the message to the respective operator; garbage vehicle can collect the garbage, which is done with the help of robot mechanism.

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