SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION USING IOT FOR SMART CITY

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, which analyses and controls city processes in real-time, serves essential for enhancing applications relevant to smart cities. Solid waste management, which has an adverse impact on both the environment and the overall wellness of the society, is one of the most vital issues connected to smart city applications. Waste produced by city inhabitants and disposed into the garbage cans is where the traditional waste management process starts. On an assigned schedule, trucks from the municipal department collect and transport the discards to the recycling facilities. Outdoor dumpsters receive little attention by municipalities and garbage management firms, making it difficult to know when to clean them or when they are filled. In order to get beyond the drawbacks of conventional waste management systems, this work proposes an IoT-enabled solid waste management approach for smart cities. The proposed layout includes a LoRaWAN gateway, a sensor-enabled anti-littering system, and a bin monitoring system with a GPS module, which are used to track bins in public and residential regions. This approach infers the location and the level of the garbage can, processes the information, and sends it to a central monitoring station for storage and analysis. The garbage collection authority may observe and assess the unfilled status of each trash can, due to an evident Graphical User Interface. Numerous data have been gathered to validate the suggested system architecture, and direct visits to the dump yards have been made in order to analyse the current scenario. As a result of the proposed smart waste management solution using IoT, the life expectancy of living things is said to increase, and this will be clearly visible.