REAL-TIME SMART GARBAGE BIN MECHANISM FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SMART CITIES BASED ON IOT

Abstract

Unprecedented urbanization and rapid population growth have increased waste generated annually, posing significant challenges to cities globally. The annual World Health Organization reports indicate that we lose many people to preventable diseases because of improper waste disposal and management. The provision of garbage bins is not good enough to manage waste in our smart cities. The major problem is that garbage bins fill up so quickly, and it takes time for municipal workers to notice. This research project focuses on real-time smart garbage bin for solid waste management for smart cities based on IoT (internet of things). Conventional garbage collection and management systems have many shortcomings, such as inaccessibility to actual data required, lack of throughput, and late unloading. The smart garbage bin mechanism proposed accesses real-time information of any garbage bin across the city; this helps resolve the problem of waste overflow from garbage bins. The system ensures that cities are kept clean. Fuzzy logic is applied in the strategic deployment of smart garbage bins across the smart cities. This proposed system will be implemented on Net-logo, which has widely been used in multi-agent modelling environments.