IoT Based University Garbage Monitoring System for Healthy Environment for Students

Abstract

Clean Pakistan is a government campaign to keep the nationwide environment of the country clean. According to higher education commission (HEC) Pakistan report of 2014-2015, total number of students in universities was 1,295,178. Growing number of students in universities of Pakistan also create lots of garbage in universities. In result, the waste collection and garbage management in universities are a crucial issue to be concerned by the universities administrator. The major need of a managed and healthy university campus environment begins with cleanliness of classes, corridors offices and parks of campus and we can achieve this with the efficient management of garbage baskets of campus. A university campus waste will have managed more efficiently only if the garbage baskets are placed throughout the campus and collected well. The major issue in the traditional waste management system in most of the university campuses is the unhealthy and overflowing status. A solution is proposed to upgrade minor and important component of the university waste management system in this paper, which is garbage basket and its management. The basic idea of this project is to connect each garbage basket by using internet of things (IoT) protocol with main sweeper monitoring room for showing status of each basket and notify wirelessly.