Waste Management System: IoT based solution for Smart Cities

Abstract

National Smart Cities Mission is an urban renewal and retrofitting program by the Government of India with the mission to develop smart cities across the country, making them citizen friendly and sustainable. A very important aspect to the development of smart cities is waste management. A person generates 0.57 kilogram of waste per day in India. Dumping this waste in landfills is not a long-term solution. The waste must be  recycled optimally.  The main problem in recycling the waste is its segregation. Segregating the waste at its source will result in tremendous saving of efforts, money, and time. This cannot be successful without the active participation of the citizens.

SmartBin is an IoT based model developed for smart waste management in smart cities. It is a contactless bin which has three sections (dry, wet and sanitary), to segregate the waste and is equipped with sensor based IoT technologies to interact and encourage the citizens to use it. It encourages the citizens through a gamified android application. It notifies and provides data to the local municipal authorities to help them in implementing efficient waste management system. With various features like contactless interface with user, 3 separate sections for better segregation of waste, smart notifications to the authorities when the bins are full; this model is suitable, economical, and scalable solution for waste management.