SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

PROJECT REFERENCE NO.:39S_BE_0373

COLLEGE : MANGALORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING,

MANGALURU
BRANCH : DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
GUIDE : MS. NIRMALA Y BARIKER
STUDENTS : MR. ACHARYA KIRAN UMESH
MR. JASON VINOD D’SOUZA
MR. JOHAN ROY TAURO
MR. JEAFFRY JOSEPH

INTRODUCTION:
The waste collection process is a critical aspect for the service providers. The
traditional way of manually monitoring the wastes in waste bins is a complex, cumbersome
process and utilizes more human effort, time and cost which is not compatible with the
present day technologies. Irregular management of waste typically domestic waste, industrial
waste and environmental waste is a root cause for many of the human problems such as
pollution, diseases and has adverse effects on the hygiene of living beings. In order to
overcome all these problems, we are proposing the idea of smart waste management system
which helps in auto-management of waste without human interaction in order to maintain a
clean environment.
The concept of smart waste management is implementable in cities where waste
production is domestically high but the effort put to control it is relatively very low. This idea
is compatible mainly with the concept of smart cities. The smart waste management mainly
avoids the congested collection of waste generated domestically which creates difficulty to
manage its disposal.
All cities, regardless their size, their geographical location or their economic level,
spend huge amount of money every year for waste collection. The number of bins located in
the streets and the number of vehicles used to empty them are generally estimated based on
the number of citizens, but the resulting estimation is sometimes either too high or too low.

OBJECTIVES:
Smart waste management is a idea where we can control lots of problems which
disturbs the society in pollution and diseases. The waste management has to be done instantly
else it leads to irregular management which will have adverse effect on nature. The Smart
waste management is compatible mainly with concept of smart cities.
The main objectives of our proposed system are as follows:
1. Monitoring the waste management.
2. Providing a smart technology for waste system.
3. Avoiding human intervention.
4. Reducing human time and effort
5. Resulting in healthy and waste ridden environment.
This project falls under the category of embedded systems and android applications.
METHODOLOGY:

The bin with ultrasonic sensor, PIC controller, GSM and GPS will notify the
coordinate and bin status to the database. Here GSM is user to communicate with the server,
which will contain the SIM with the basic speed internet. The ultrasonic sensor which uses
ultrasonic waves will check the bin status. The PIC controller board is used to control
ultrasonic sensor, GSM and GPS.
The server will maintain the details of the unfilled bins, filled bins and authority
registration. Whenever the normal user or authorised bin collect or request from the database
the information will be given to them. The information to the normal user is about the nearest
unfilled bin and authorised person will be given the coordinated of the filled bins.
The user end will contain the android app which works on android compatible phone.
There will be two separate buttons for user and authority. The user will notify the unfilled
nearest bin with path and authorised person will be notified by the filled bins with path. The
working is as follows,User inserts trash into the bin,Bin checks for threshold level,Bin sends
the status and coordinates to the Control centre on reaching the appropriate level,Control
centre uses the coordinates sent by multiple Bins and provides an optimal path to the garbage
vehicle, The bin if emptied by the vehicle, a notification is sent by it to Control centre.This
helps in easy monitoring.
RESULTS:

The first page of the android application is displayed with a user interface. It consist of
two buttons, one named User identifies the user portal which can be used by the common
citizens who dump waste in their daily routine and the Driver portal that identifies the button
for the drivers who are allocated for collection of waste for their respective areas.
The second diagram indicates the outcome for the normal user who has the option of
getting the location of the nearest bin available from his current location.
 The third diagram is the outcome or the result for the driver, where the pin points
indicates the filled bins and the blue line indicates the path that links those in a linear fashion.
The driver has to traverse through every pinned location in order to empty the filled bins. The
path begins from the blue dot that indicates the current location of the driver.
CONCLUSION:
Monitoring the fullness of bins through the use of sensors, it is possible to achieve a
more efficient system than the current existing. Our idea of “Smart waste management
system”, mainly concentrates on Monitoring the waste management, providing a smart
technology for waste system, avoiding human intervention, reducing human time and effort
and which results in healthy and waste ridden environment.
The proposed idea can be implemented for smart cities where the residents would be
busy enough with their hectic schedule and wouldn’t have enough time for managing waste.
The bins can be implemented in a city if desired where there would be a large bin that can
have the capacity to accumulate the waste of solid type for a single apartment. The cost could
be distributed among the residents leading to cheaper service provision.

FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS:
There are several future works and improvements for the proposed system,

1. Change the system of user’s authentication and atomic lock of bins which would help
in securing the bin from any kind of damage or theft.
2. Concept of green-points that would encourage the involvement of the residents or the
end users making the idea successful and helping to achieve joined efforts for the
waste management and hence fulfilling the idea of Swachch Bharath.
3. Having a case study or data analytics on the type and times the waste is collected on
the type of days or season making the bin filling predictable and removing the
dependency on electronic components and fixing the coordinates.
4. Improving graphical interfaces for the Server and complete Android applications has
possibility of extending the system adding other use cases and applications for smart
cities.
5. Moreover, the proposed solution is flexible and decoupled with respect to the
determination of optimal number of bins and vehicles or to the algorithm that define
the best route for vehicles.
Therefore, future works can be made in the study of models that offer the best results
in terms of decision-making.