IoT based garbage management (Monitor and acknowledgment) system: A review

Solid waste management is one of the primary problems that India faces irrespective of the case of developed or under development states. It is seen that most of the garbage's across the roadside are overloaded because the waste is not collected periodically. It creates unhygienic condition for the people and creates bad odor around the surroundings. This leads in spreading some deadly diseases and human illness. Most of the time wet and dry wastes are not separately collected so that proper processing like composting, recycling, incineration cannot be applied to different kinds of waste. This paper reviews system for garbage management and proposes a system which will take care of proper processing of garbage. The reviewed systems use ultrasonic sensor, infrared sensor [2] [7] for detecting the level of waste, Arduino UNO [6], microcontroller[3][11], Raspberry Pi2[7] as controlling boards. The proposed system uses ultrasonic sensors (as they are precise and have large range) to sense the level of garbage in the bin, flame sensor to detect the fire and moisture sensor to separate out wet and dry garbage. By using global system for mobile (GSM) the concerned persons (driver of garbage collecting vehicle as well as concerned authority) shall be informed through SMS. The officials shall monitor the status of waste bins through web page. As huge data is to be transmitted and processed fast Raspberry Pi3 is preferred as controlling board.