Design and Development of Smart Waste Management System

Waste management has now become a necessary practice in all countries around the world. India generates approximately 65 million tons of garbage every year. The main challenge is to manage this waste. Conventional systems are not efficient to manage this much amount of waste. IoT can play a dominant role in handling waste and making any country greener and more efficient. Time to Time disposal of waste is important and if ignored can be a health hazard. The current system for waste disposal in local areas for small and densely populated cities is inactive which causes garbage to spread all over the area. The rate of garbage generation is higher than garbage disposal. It is required to manage and dispose of the waste for a sustainable and clean country. This paper presents an IoT-enabled Waste management system for the collection of garbage. The system consists of smart garbage bins made using Ultrasonic sensors, NodeMCU, and a Global Positioning System (GPS) module. The ultrasonic sensor detects the level of garbage in the dustbin and notifies the garbage collection authorities when the dustbin is full. The SMS and email notification are sent using If This Then That (IFTTT) and ThingSpeak the online digital automation platforms. A mobile application is created using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) app inventor where the authorities can see the status of the dustbin and an optimized shortest route to be followed by the garbage collector truck for garbage collection and disposal. The proposed system is economical, practical, easy to use, and requires minimal human interaction.