WBMS: Waste Bin Management System for densely populated urban areas

Management of solid waste is a major challenge in densely populated urban areas. Such areas also have other predominant health management issues and improper waste management contributes to that. With the rise of COVID in the last two years hygiene has become the first priority of the Government to control the pandemic. Traditionally, municipality vehicles come as their routine to collect solid waste from commonly collected garbage bins placed by local authorities in residential and commercial areas. These bins are usually over-full and the waste roll-out of these bins is due to botching actions of the local occupants. These openly overflowing waste bins add to the contaminated environmental conditions leading to the spread of numerous diseases. Waste-bin management is a challenge in highly populated areas for municipal corporations. Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to monitor such waste bins and notify the municipal corporations about the waste level so that the bins can be cleared on time avoiding the spilling of garbage around them. In this paper, we have proposed an approach to waste bin management using IoT in urban areas. The model is built using LoRa waste-bin surveil units that will monitor and locate waste-bins in residential/commercial areas and notify the authority about their level.