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M.U. Parate
Post Graduate Student,Civil Engineering Department, RMD Sinhgad School of Engineering, Warje, Mumbai-Pune Bypass Highway,
Pune-411058, India.
Email Address : manishpar4@outlook.com
As the government drafts its plans for 100 smart cities, solid
waste management becomes even more important for
sustainable development. Prime Minister Narendra Modi
has himself stressed on this. Focus on waste to wealth, i.e.
solid waste management, and waste water treatment would
be an important part of the develpment of smart cities," he Waste Management', Africa generates almost 70 million
has said. tonnes of waste every year and innovative investments have
helped it turn this waste into wealth.
1.2 Aim & Objectives of Study There are other success stories. Thailand has managed to
A planned disposal of these elements is quintessential for utilise 22% of its waste and Netherland has succeeded in
attaining sustainability. recycling 64% of it. In all these cases there is huge
participation by private ventures which have generated
Objectives of study:- wealth from waste, created jobs for millions, and also
1. To study the Performance of the sensor device. addressed rising pollution and climate change issues.
2. To study the waste vehicle automated from where
the smart bin are kepted. 2.2. Enablers - Hardware & Software Architecture
3. To study how the software are used in smart bin. Smart waste management is not exactly an alien concept in
4. To study how the smart waste techniques are used. India. Even before plans of developing smart cities came
up, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation was already
2. Monitoring working on implementing such a waste management project
2.1. A Case for Smart Waste Management with the help of technology. It has implemented multiple
Every year municipal corporations and other government smart solutions with regards to solid waste management,
bodies spend large chunks of money for waste collection. including monitoring of more than 1,000 dustbins utilizing
However, this cost can be reduced to a great extent with the mobile technology; monitoring more than 2,000 solid waste
implementation of information communication technology management workers utilising mobile technology; and
(ICT) on waste management. For example, the number of developing integrated waste management facilities on PPP
bins located in the streets and the number of vehicles used basis with private sector partners. However, the challenge
to empty them are generally estimated based on the number lies in replicating these solutions on a larger scale, and to
of citizens, but the resulting estimation is sometimes either augment specific functionalities to bring in additional smart
too high or too low. The natural consequence is the and intelligent features.
provision of poor service or incurring of high costs.
In a research paper titled 'An Approach for Monitoring and
Furthermore, the collection of waste, regardless of the type Smart Planning of Urban Solid Waste Management Using
of material (recycling or unsorted), is typically done weekly Smart M3 Platform' published by the Department of
without taking into account the actual state of the level of Electrical, Electronics & Computer Engineering, University
fullness of each bin. The result is the collection of semi- of Catania, Italy, the researchers have demonstrated the use
empty bins, or trash accumulation causing degrading of technology in waste management in smart cities. To
conditions of hygiene. achieve a smart waste system, we have used very different
components, each capable of interacting with the smart
Monitoring the fullness of bins through the use of sensors space.
would make it possible to achieve a more efficient system.
Predicting best times for garbage collection, and optimising In accordance with the vision of smart cities, we have
the number of vehicles and containers placed on the streets, inserted two types of sensors inside the bins to provide real
can become feasible if a stream of real time information time data: a proximity sensor located inside the lid or on the
about the quantity of waste is available. internal and upper part of the bin; and a weight sensor at the
bottom of the container. The proximity sensor has the task
While this can save costs for government bodies, it is also a to measure the level of fullness of the container; the weight
potential wealth creation opportunity. According to a World sensor is used instead to measure the amount of trash
Bank report titled 'What a Waste: A Global Review of Solid contained in the bin or thrown by a user. Each bin has a
Zigbee module that is able to communicate the values of of the system. The waste vehicles have an onboard
measured physical quantities to the nearest light pole. computer or a tablet with Internet connection.
Alternative protocols, instead of Zigbee, could be used (e.g.
BLE) because the system logic and the protocol to Gujarat International Finance Tec City (GIFT) is
communicate sensors data are decoupled, thanks to the use putting in place a smart waste management solution
of a gateway component in the light pole. using Swiss technology.
system, a city is divided into areas. A list of coordinate The inorganic waste will be incinerated using plasma
points is a polygon, i.e. an area. Each waste vehicle is technology. The initial capacity of the incinerator will be 50
mapped on an area of the city during the configuration tonnes per day, which will gradually increase to 400 tonnes
per day as occupancy increases. Energy from the incinerator 4. http://www.wastekeysheets.net/pdf/s_guide_final.p
will be used to generate thermal power for consumption df
within a city. 5. About City Science, MIT Cities, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 2012. Web. Last
accessed 8 Feb. 2014.
4. Conclusion
http://cities.media.mit.edu/about/cellular-city
5. Acknowledgements
This Technical Report was researched and principally
authored by Professor S.D. Khandekar from the Savitribai
Phule. The author also acknowledges the guidance and
support from all the members of the RMD Sinhgad
Institute.
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