Solid Waste Collection as a Service using IoT-Solution for Smart Cities

There has been tremendous increase in solid waste generation in last few years. Solid waste management is a key and challenging issue of environment in the whole world. Hence, there is a need to develop an efficient system which can eliminate this problem or at least reduce it to the minimum level. In today's era, every government across the globe is planning to build smart cities or try to transform existing cities into smart cities. Collection of solid waste is a crucial point for environment and its impact on society should be considered seriously in smart cities infrastructure. Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can efficiently handle such services in smart cities. In this paper, we are proposing an IoT based solid waste management system which enables garbage bin monitoring, dynamic scheduling and routing of garbage collector trucks in a smart city. In the proposed system, garbage bins equipped with low cost embedded device are located at various places in entire city. Real time status of garbage level along with garbage bin location is sent to cloud. We have designed a cloud based system for organizing solid waste management process and mobile application for waste collection drivers and Municipal Corporation to monitor and control solid waste collection as a service. Mobile application facilitates the waste collection drivers to go to the garbage bins using dynamic and shortest route.