A cloud integrated wireless garbage management system for smart cities

Waste management is an issue of serious concern in modern urban scenario with exponentially rising population. Apart from the need to reduce the costs incurred in garbage management, the municipality, at the same time has to ensure a safe and healthy environment for the citizens. This paper presents the development of a cloud integrated wireless garbage management system for smart cities. The proposed system centrally monitors the temperature, humidity, flammable gases concentrations (or smoke), fire detection and garbage fill volume in waste bins with the help of wireless sensing nodes placed at remote locations in the city. The communication from the sensor node to the central station is done using TCP/IP protocol via existing GSM/GPRS wireless infrastructure in the city. At the cloud server, the data is monitored, analyzed and stored and notification to the service providers is sent for suitable action for fire prevention and waste bin overflow. The experimental results show that the proposed system is a cost-effective and efficient solution for waste management in modern urban scenario.