Holistic Solution Design and Implementation for Smart City Recycle Waste Management Case Study: Saensuk City

摘要

Recycling waste is valuable waste due to its potential to be used as raw material. According to our observation and data collection at the Bangsaen Beach, Saensuk City, Chon Buri Province, Thailand, a lot of valuable waste is being thrown away instead of being collected and separated properly. This leads to not only the raw material problem but also the environmental pollution. We found out that the 2 main reasons cause people do not litter their waste appropriately are 1) they lack of basic knowledge how to separate the valuable waste correctly, and 2) they lack of motivation to separate the valuable waste. From this point of view, we designed a holistic waste management system that tries to tackle these problems using modern Information Technology. The system consists of 2 parts; the first one is the software design and implementation including web-based waste management application and mobile-application-based rewarding system; whereas the second one is the hardware design and implementation based on Internet of Things and Machine Learning technology. This part can recognize and separate 3 kinds of waste automatically, namely glass bottles, plastic bottles, and metal cans. The system is tested and it functions as expected. It can separate the mentioned 3 kinds of waste with good results. The rewarding system on mobile application allows the people to collect the points and get rewarded. This motivates them to litter their waste properly.