IoT & Smart Cities

Smart Waste

Solid Waste Management represents an opportunity
to improve the quality of urban life.

City Challenges

Waste management is a resource-intense service that is expected to grow as the urban population grows. The financial costs, the environmental impact and the health implications that waste management generate are already putting pressure on city managers and waste operating companies to change the way urban waste has been handled. Rather than a passive approach, which relies on fixed routes and pre-set collection days, a data-drive approach based on dynamic routing and filling-level collection would optimize garbage truck schedule, route, and costs, in turn reducing CO2 emissions generated by unnecessary trips of the truck fleet.  

Thanks to connected bins, city managers can monitor bins’ filling levels, preventing health issues deriving from overflowing containers. 

Benefits of our Solution

Our Smart Waste Solution enables cities to optimize solid waste collection and the process of route-planning and scheduling for trucks, reducing the number of truck rolls and the mileage associated with them, which in turn reduces the fleet carbon footprint and urban congestion. 

By equipping waste bins with our 6LoWPAN sensors, it is possible to collect and send data about filling levels and other parameters, to predict when the bin will need to be emptied. Based on historical data provided by the sensors, our Smart Central Management System (CMS) predicts filling levels, and generates alerts in case of fire, vandalism, or unauthorized bin movements. The intelligent routing software can correlate data including types of containers, their locations and ownership details, sorting centers, truck fleet operation history as well as maps and traffic, dynamic routing, and weather information. This allows trucks to be dispatched when the bins are close to full (or when the city prefers), following an optimized routing.

Route optimization

30% reduction in collection costs

Temperature and Motion sensors

Alarms triggering

Filling levels

Real-time monitoring

Route planning and scheduling

Reduction of the fleet’s carbon footprint

Historical data

Take data-driven decisions

Route optimization

30% reduction in collection costs

Temperature and Motion sensors

Alarms triggering

Filling levels

Real-time monitoring

Route planning and scheduling

Reduction of the fleet’s carbon footprint

Historical data

Take data-driven decisions

Interested in our
Smart Waste Solution?

Our Solution in Detail

Our Smart Waste Sensors can be easily installed in solid waste bins around the city and connected to the existing wireless network of smart lighting. Using radar sensor technology, the Smart Waste Sensor continuously monitors and sends data about the filling-level of almost any material in multiple container types, date/time of waste collection, truck ID, alerts in case of vandalism. 

The measurements from waste bins are automatically communicated to the Smart CMS through the existing smart city network infrastructure.

Hardware security module and strong data encryption features ensure data protection, safe storage, and trusted network communication. Security features are available without additional cost.

Smart CMS

Our open software management platform

Our Smart CMS monitors and controls all urban applications and connected devices through intuitive web applications and a new user-friendly interface.

Our Smart CMS offers outstanding extensibility and interoperability thanks to the standard-based data model and the possibility to easily add new applications, device types and attributes. 

The platform also grants unparalleled scalability and modularity through the microservices-based backend architecture.

Our Smart CMS boasts cross-platform communication with RESTful APIs and MQTTs messaging, facilitating and enabling seamless communication with external systems, unlocking endless possibilities for integration and interaction.

Smart CMS

Our open software management platform

Our Smart CMS monitors and controls all urban applications and connected devices through intuitive web applications and a new user-friendly interface.

Our Smart CMS offers outstanding extensibility and interoperability thanks to the standard-based data model and the possibility to easily add new applications, device types and attributes. The multitenancy architecture allows to host multiple customers on a single cloud-based server, providing adequate data segregation and load balancing.

The platform also grants unparalleled scalability and modularity through the microservices-based backend architecture.

Our Smart CMS boasts cross-platform communication with RESTful APIs and MQTTs messaging, facilitating and enabling seamless communication with external systems, unlocking endless possibilities for integration and interaction.

Applications

Municipal solid
waste collection

Household
waste

Industrial
waste

Office
waste

Our projects in the world

Thanks to our integrated portfolio of future proof Internet of Things solutions for open cities and other smart environments, we deploy interoperable and highly scalable network infrastructures for industrial and urban applications around the world. Discover our projects and hear from our customers about their experience.

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