Smart Solid and Liquid Waste Management Using IoT

Abstract

Waste management is one of the major aspect which has to be considered in terms of making urban area environment healthier. The common dustbins placed by the municipal corporation are leading number of health, environmental and social issues. Various causes such as improper dustbin placement in city, improper system of collecting waste by City Corporation, and more specifically people are not aware enough to use dustbins in proper way. These major causes are leading to serious problems like an unhygienic condition, air pollution, and unhealthy environment creating health diseases. Till date, research has been carried out by developing a software applications for indicating dustbin status, another by shortest path method for garbage collecting vehicles by integrating RFID, GSM, GIS system; but no any active efforts has been taken paying attention towards managing such waste in atomized way. Considering all these major factors, a smart solid and liquid waste management system are designed in this paper that will check automatically the opening and closing condition of dustbin using Infrared Sensors (IRs) and stepper motor. The proposed system novelty lies in automatically separating partially dry and wet waste. Also it can give alert of dustbin fullness, and more significantly, system has a feature to make people aware to use dustbin properly. Thus, the presented solution achieves smart waste management satisfying goal of making Indian cities clean, healthy and hygienic.