Real-time smart garbage bin mechanism for solid waste management in smart cities

Abstract

Unprecedented urbanization and rapid population growth have increased waste generated annually posing challenges to cities globally. The annual World Health Organization reports indicate that many people die from preventable diseases as a result of improper waste disposal and management. The provision of garbage bins is inadequate in the management of solid waste in smart cities. The major problem is that garbage bins fill up quickly, and it takes time for the municipal workers to empty the bins. This paper focuses on a real-time smart garbage bin mechanism for solid waste management in smart cities. Conventional garbage collection and management systems have many shortcomings, including inaccessibility to actual data required, lack of throughput, and late unloading. The mechanism proposed accesses real-time information of any smart garbage bin deployed across the city and helps to resolve the problem of waste overflow from garbage bins and keep the smart cities clean. Fuzzy logic is applied in the strategic deployment of smart garbage bins across the smart cities. The system is implemented on Net-logo which is widely used in multi-agent modelling environments. The significant advantage of the system is its novelty in real-time decision-making and real-time monitoring using the fuzzy logic process.