Smart Dustbin: A Reward Provider

Abstract

Today, an average resident produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day and that is buried down in landfills and litters lands costing a great amount of money and environmental damage. Nowadays, people face no more critical trouble than the need to save the weakening environment, mainly in urban areas, where solid wastes are uselessly dumped. Although an intrinsic part of our everyday routines, the dustbin’s role as a mediator of changing waste practices has rarely been considered. The idea to exalt simple acts in civil behaviour may not set a good example, but is a start nevertheless towards fostering a culture where these actions are given the attention they deserve. This paper presents an IOT innovation in the form of a smart dustbin with real-time waste monitoring system that integrates multiple technologies, such as mobile technologies, sensors and wireless communication technologies. The main idea of the smart dustbin evolves from the traditional basic dustbins to have multiple smart features, like: to have two bins, one for the wet waste and another for the dry waste. As soon as the person throws the trash into the smart bin, the smart dustbin provides a reward as an incentive. Rewards include internet facilities, coupons for different payment driven apps, wallet money. Smart dustbin also provides the location of the bins, so as to notify the concerned department to come and collect the trash when the smart bin is full with the shortest path distance navigation with data analytics and also to provide the garbage collectors with rewards for successfully emptying the smart dustbin with the rewards for encouraging them. The aim of this paper is to provide an efficient and cost-effective waste collection management system, while encouraging the individuals to put the trash where it belongs, hence providing clean, healthy and green environment.