Waste Monitoring System for Smart Cities through SMS and IoT

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In the recent decades, Urbanization has increased tremendously. At the same phase there is an increase in waste production. Waste management has been a crucial issue to be considered. In this paper, smart bin is built on a microcontroller based platform Arduino Uno board which is interfaced with GSM modem and Ultrasonic sensor. Ultrasonic sensor is placed at the top of the dustbin which will measure the status of the dustbin. Arduino will be programmed in such a way that when the dustbin is being filled, the remaining height from the threshold height will be displayed. Once the garbage reaches the threshold level ultrasonic sensor will trigger the GSM modem which will continuously alert the required authority until the garbage in the dustbin is squashed. At regular intervals dustbin will be squashed. Once these smart bins are implemented on a large scale, by replacing our traditional bins, waste can be managed efficiently with the help of the smart dustbin.The unnecessary linkages may lead to the spread of the disease in the place where disease are meant to be cured.