Design and Development of Smart Trash Bin Prototype for Municipal Solid Waste Management

摘要

This paper describe the design and development of waste management system intended for municipal areas. One of the classical city problems is the habits of its people who do not care about cleanliness of their environment. Awareness of how to throw and manage garbage in a good manner is still not become an important consideration. The government doesn't have yet the efficient waste management system. Waste management system based on information technology capable of handling waste management problems is needed to overcome this problems. In this work, a prototype of waste management system has been developed, especially for the solid waste, focusing on segregation and garbage collection phase. The system consists of three main subsystems: the hardware subsystem consist of trash bin equipped with sensors and communication system for monitoring the garbage status and controlling the garbage collection schedule. The other subsystems are data management and data visualization subsystem for management and analysis purposes. The prototype was built and tested. It shows that the system can operate well, their sensors can detect different type of garbage, also can send and display the garbage status to the management display station. The prototype can meet the needs that have been defined as part of urban waste management solution.