An IoT Based Smart Waste Management System for the Municipality or City Corporations

TL;DR

This paper proposes an IoT-based smart waste management system integrating smart dustbins and mobile apps to improve urban waste collection efficiency and community engagement, addressing environmental and health issues in developing cities.

Contribution

It introduces a combined IoT and mobile app solution for waste management, including a community acceptance survey, to enhance urban waste handling in developing countries.

Findings

Community shows positive acceptance of the system

Smart dustbins communicate effectively with waste collectors

Mobile app facilitates community reporting and engagement

Abstract

The population of the urban areas is increasing daily, and this migration is causing serious environmental pollution. A larger population is creating pressure on the municipality's waste management and the city corporations of developing countries such as Bangladesh, further threatening human health. New generation technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT)-based waste management systems, can help improve this serious issue. IoT-enabled smart dustbins and mobile applications-based interactive management can effectively solve this problem. In this article, we combine these two technologies to offer an acceptable solution to this problem. The proposed waste management model enables smart dustbins to communicate with waste collectors or waste control centers whenever it is necessary. Additionally, city dwellers can use mobile applications to report their observations in their neighborhoods. As a result, both sensors and humans are involved directly in the development loop. We have conducted a detailed survey to study the acceptance of such a system in the community and received some encouraging results.